Category Archives: mini-WASP Array

The creation and use of the New Forest Observatory mini-WASP array

The megaWASP array does Kemble’s Cascade

A very rare beautiful clear Moonless night last night so I put the 2 x Canon 200mm lenses on a favourite star region of mine – Kemble’s Cascade in Camelopardalis. Managed 2-hours worth of 10-minute subs with the array and … Continue reading

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The North America and Pelican nebulae Mega-WASPed

Managed to get 8 x 30-minute subs last night with the 2 x 200mm Canons and the M26Cs, and I added this to earlier 19 x 15-minute data from the same rig using Registar.  This is the result.  I think … Continue reading

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The MegaWASP array does the Crescent region in Cygnus

Last night, for the first time since I put it together, I have been able to use the 2 x Canon 200mm lenses (and M26C Trius cameras) as intended. The whole idea with this rig was to get two horizontal … Continue reading

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North America nebula region with the Canon 200mm lens

Clear Moonless night last night and good seeing – BUT – only 3 days before the summer solstice meant that the sky never really got dark and it was perhaps a bit stupid to image a nebula rather than a … Continue reading

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Astronomical Images on Flickr

Just a reminder that you can see most of my Astronomical images on Flickr.

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The megaWASP array does Arcturus

A couple of nights ago with a full Moon I took some Arcturus data with the 3 x Sky 90s. I combined the recent data with some taken a while back and came up with this result 🙂

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CCDInspector result

Here is a CCDInspector result from one of the 200mm lenses with an M26C Trius OSC CCD from last night:  

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R Coronae Borealis

Last night I used the two Canon 200mm lenses and M26C Trius OSC CCDs to image the left hand half of Corona Borealis – the idea eventually to make a 2-frame mosaic showing the whole of the constellation.  When I … Continue reading

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Almost set up

It was a beautiful clear Moonless night last night (we don’t get very many of those in a year) and instead of imaging I was setting up 🙁  These things unfortunately need to be done, shame it was under almost … Continue reading

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The latest incarnation of “The Beast”

Here is the latest state of play on the array now known as the “megawasp” array 🙂

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