Category Archives: Projects

Projects undertaken at New Forest Observatory

The CTB1 region in Cassiopeia

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Greg Parker

The supernova remnant is barely visible dead-centre in this highly stretched image of the CTB1 region in Cassiopeia.

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The Caph region in Cassiopeia

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Greg Parker

The Caph region of Cassiopeia taken with the Canon 200mm prime lenses. 14 x 15-minute subs taken on 3rd October 2018.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day APOD

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Greg Parker

November 30th 2018 – Struve’s Lost nebula https://epod.usra.edu/blog/2018/11/struves-lost-nebula.html

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The Veil nebula in wide-field

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Greg Parker

30-minute subs with the 2 x 200mm lenses for a total of 4.5 hours. 12th September 2018. Clear Moonless night, started imaging at 11:00 p.m.

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NGC 7209 in Lacerta

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Greg Parker

A Sky90 array image of open cluster NGC7209 in Lacerta. 18 x 10-minute subs taken on 1st September 2018. 

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Another ISS pass and a Summer sky with Mars

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Greg Parker

Another 6-minute pass of the ISS last night 23/07/2018 and a quick shot of the Summer sky with Mars low down in the south.

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Last night’s 6-minute ISS pass

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Greg Parker

The sky was too light for me to see the Cygnus pass.

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MiniWASP article

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Greg Parker

https://astronomytechnologytoday.com/2018/06/28/multi-imager-systems-development-of-the-miniwasp-parallel-imaging-telescope-array-at-the-new-forest-observatories/  

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Cocoon nebula region

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Greg Parker

I added some extra data to the top (north) of this one and reprocessed the lot again.  Canon 200mm prime lenses with the Trius M26C OSC CCDs – a horizontal 2-frame mosaic with each frame in portrait mode.

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The NGC6914 reflection nebula region in Cygnus

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Greg Parker

A complete reprocess of the data incorporating Noel Carboni’s AstroFlat plugin. 51 x 20-minute subs using the 3 x Sky 90s and M26C OSC CCDs on the MiniWASP array at the New Forest Observatory.

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