Looking through this year’s captures I found one I hadn’t put up for viewing. This is Carbon star X Cancri taken on 15th February 2015.
A “Little Planet” shot taken this afternoon with the Canon 5D MkII and a 15mm Canon fish-eye lens.
Nice way to start off a new month. After 4 days of drilling, cutting, taping and wiring – the upgrade converting the mini-WASP array to the mega-WASP array is now complete. Additions to the top plate are another Canon 200mm … Continue reading
After 3 days I have now finished all the metalwork, drilling and tapping, and reconfiguring the top plate of the mini-WASP array. The top plate will now accommodate 2 x Canon 200mm prime lenses, each with a Starlight Xpress M26C … Continue reading
I composited some 4-hours of Hyperstar III data and some 6-hours of Sky 90 data to give the following deep image of NGC281 – the Pac Man nebula.
A clear Moonless night last night so I put the mini-WASP array on Polaris. A total of 36 x 5-minute subs gave the result below which I’m pretty pleased with.
Last night I got the left hand frame in this Canon 200mm/M26C Trius 2-framer. Bagged 13 Messier objects in one image with this one 🙂 The Virgo/Coma cluster of galaxies. If the weather allows – I will go back and … Continue reading
The first of 2-frames taken with the Canon 200mm lens and Starlight Xpress M26C Trius OSC CCD. Bit of a story to this one. Had some strange streaks across the image which I thought had wrecked the whole imaging session. … Continue reading
Has anybody imaged the Polaris region recently? Seems to have been a bit of mega-engineering going on out there courtesy of some highly advanced alien civilisation!
Blazing Moon last night so I spent a little time getting a good focus on the 200mm lens and then imaged both the Zosma region (with the Leo II dwarf galaxy) and the Virgo/Coma galaxy cluster region. This was done … Continue reading
