I have just assembled this DNA model that comes from Cochrane’s of Oxford. It is extremely well thought out and the instructions for assembly are quite excellent given the complexity of the thing being put together. When I first saw … Continue reading
Clear Moonless night last night and good seeing – BUT – only 3 days before the summer solstice meant that the sky never really got dark and it was perhaps a bit stupid to image a nebula rather than a … Continue reading
Just a reminder that you can see most of my Astronomical images on Flickr.
A couple of nights ago with a full Moon I took some Arcturus data with the 3 x Sky 90s. I combined the recent data with some taken a while back and came up with this result 🙂
Here is a CCDInspector result from one of the 200mm lenses with an M26C Trius OSC CCD from last night:
Last night I used the two Canon 200mm lenses and M26C Trius OSC CCDs to image the left hand half of Corona Borealis – the idea eventually to make a 2-frame mosaic showing the whole of the constellation. When I … Continue reading
It was a beautiful clear Moonless night last night (we don’t get very many of those in a year) and instead of imaging I was setting up 🙁 These things unfortunately need to be done, shame it was under almost … Continue reading
Here is the latest state of play on the array now known as the “megawasp” array 🙂
I was looking at the pinhole camera image taken Winter Solstice 2013 – Summer Solstice 2014, and I realised there was an image I could take using the same kit that would be extremely interesting, and as far as I … Continue reading
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.
