Category Archives: Projects

Projects undertaken at New Forest Observatory

Zoom-In & Zoom-Out on the Coma cluster of galaxies

Zoo-In – Original Hyperstar on a C11 with an H9C OSC CCD. Zoom-Out – Sky 90 with an M25C OSC CCD. Both are single frames.

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The Rosette nebula Zoomed In & Out

Zoom In – Original Hyperstar on C11 with H9C OSC CCD. Zoom Out – Sky 90 single frame with M26C OSC CCD.

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“The Propeller” in M13

I have very deep data of M13 and for the first time today I took a good look at the image to see if I could find “The Propeller”. And there it was!!

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Sky 90 4-frame mosaic of the Double Cluster/Stock 2 region in Perseus

I took this data a few years back.  It is a 4-frame mosaic of the Double Cluster/Stock 2 region in Perseus taken with the Sky 90s/M26Cs.  Each frame is 2-hours of 3-minute subs and North is to the right.  It … Continue reading

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North America nebula with the Canon 5D MkII and the Canon 200mm lens

Noel Carboni put some old Canon 5D MkII (unmodified) data through his new AstroFlat plug-in.  I am amazed at the amount of “red” he has managed to pull out from an unmodified DSLR camera!!

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Carbon star SAO 77516 in Taurus

A Sky90 array image, 5 hours of 30-minute subs.

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Arcturus and Napoleon’s Hat

A slightly better Arcturus reprocess. Arcturus is the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere.

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M11 – the Wild Duck Cluster

A Noel Carboni reprocess of old Sky 90 array data using AstroFlat.

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NGC 1555

Struve’s Lost Nebula, Burnham’s Nebula, Hind’s Variable Nebula, NGC 1555 – they are all the same object and it is in the centre of this image. 65 x 20-minute subs (almost 22 hours) went into this one using the Sky … Continue reading

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Mighty Merak

A rather oddly-framed 4-framer using the Sky 90 array of the Merak region.

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