Category Archives: Projects

Projects undertaken at New Forest Observatory

Procyon & Gomeisa

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Greg Parker

A 200mm lens 2-framer taken over 2 nights this week – Procyon & Gomeisa in Canis Minor.

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Gomeisa from 23rd February 2017

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Greg Parker

Found I had this one on the hard drive while processing last night’s Procyon data. This is the bright star just above Procyon – Gomeisa. 15 subs of 15-minutes taken with the Sky 90 array and M26C OSC CCDs.

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Procyon region from 22/03/2017

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Greg Parker

No Moon and some clear sky between 8:15 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Set up the 2 x 200mm lenses on the Procyon region for the first of 2 frames containing Procyon and Gomeisa.  Got the Procyon frame and cropped it … Continue reading →

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Lunar Halo

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Greg Parker

A 22-degree lunar halo taken last night (09/03/2017) at 8:20 p.m. Lovely view of Orion too. Red flashing light photobombing the image was a military helicopter which was tailing another military helicopter that had NO LIGHTS showing!!

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The DELL PowerEdge C6100 MegaNode machine

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Greg Parker

As a month has now gone past, I have just this minute ordered another 4 x Xeon 2.93GHz hex-core CPUs for the DELL PowerEdge C6100 quad node server.  So when they arrive and are put in I will have 4 … Continue reading →

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The DELL MegaNode project at the New Forest Observatory

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Greg Parker
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The Current Status of the Mini-WASP Array at the New Forest Observatory

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Greg Parker
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M45 – Noel Carboni process

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Greg Parker

And here’s what can be done with my data when Noel Carboni (Florida, U.S.A.) gets his hands on it. Sure hasn’t lost his touch!!

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Composited M45

Posted on January 21, 2017 by Greg Parker

I composited last night’s deeeep M45 data with some older shallower data with good colour and ended up with this result:

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Deeeeeep M45

Posted on January 21, 2017 by Greg Parker

Yet another beautiful clear Moonless night last night – and best positioned for some deeeeep imaging was M45, the Pleiades. Managed to grab 18 x 40-minute (yes that IS 40-minute!!) subs and very quickly processed (leaving in the plane trails) … Continue reading →

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