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You Tube video of the 10 p.m. ISS pass from last night
Check out the You Tube video of last night’s 10 p.m. ISS pass here. Mute the audio when playing.
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5-minute ISS pass 11:33 p.m. on 01/06/2017
This is part of last night’s 5-minute ISS pass that started around 11:33 p.m. Earlier in the day I had seen a load of cloud coming in from the West that I thought would give me complete cloud cover by … Continue reading
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Another long 6-minute pass of the ISS
Last night – 31/05/2017, 10:49 p.m. – from the New Forest Observatory. Another long 6-minute pass of the International Space Station. I think this is the longest pass I have managed to image with the 15mm fisheye lens so far.
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Lots of artificial satellite action last night
Went out half an hour before a 6-minute ISS pass last night to set up and caught a pair of satellites flaring – could be USA229 and associated debris. I then imaged the main event of the evening, a lovely … Continue reading
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A sunny day at the New Forest Observatories
I just finished painting the South Dome’s decking which finishes the Spring cleaning of the two dome’s for this year. The South Dome has just had a re-injection of life for the Hyperstar III with the addition of a 9-Megapixel … Continue reading
My first Prime Number
So the Prime Number the MegaNode computing facility just found has now been confirmed – it is: 3438759891285*2^1290000-1 Which is 388,342 digits long and is in the top 5,000 largest primes. I just ran the numbers through Mathematica to see … Continue reading
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Asteroid JO25 2014 captured on the miniWASP 200mm Canon prime lenses
As well as capturing asteroid JO25 2014 on the single Sky 90/M26C – I also managed to grab 16 subs on the two 200mm lenses with the Trius M26Cs. Sub number 12 (counting down from the top) is missing as … Continue reading
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Asteroid JO25 2014
I think somebody up there knew it was my Birthday today and kept a clear pocket of sky over the New Forest Observatory last night when the rest of the UK was under cloud cover. Here are 9 x 5-minute … Continue reading
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Asteroids in Leo from last night
I saw on the Sky 6 that there were 3 bright asteroids in Leo, namely 16 Psyche, 29 Amphitrite and 62 Erato. So when I processed the data this morning and only saw 2 I wondered what was wrong. Checked … Continue reading
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Widefield Gomeisa region with the 200mm lenses
Processed to show the dark tendrils that permeate all dense star regions:
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