Went into the garage and loaded up the pinhole camera tonight 🙂 All set and ready to go. Will put it out tomorrow (one day early) and take it down on 22nd June (one day late) if I can keep … Continue reading
I am putting together a new pinhole camera for this coming December 21st 2013 (Winter Solstice). It will remain outside recording whatever Sun there might be until June 21st 2014 (Summer Solstice). Big difference from the earlier pinhole photographs I … Continue reading
I put together a little montage of the 3 brightest stars for those living in Northern latitudes. You can see the image here. Sirius, Arcturus and Vega to similar scales and total exposure times, so this is relatively how they … Continue reading
Clear Moonless night last night and I imaged a Carbon star near Caph in Cassiopeia. Mini-WASP array, all 3 cameras, 19 subs at 4-minutes per sub. Couldn’t believe when I loaded up this image that I’d done it last month … Continue reading
Ended up in getting 15 subs per camera at 10-minutes per sub on the Bubble nebula region in Cepheus last night. Needs about the same amount of data again to bring out the faint stuff, or maybe some H-alpha narrowband … Continue reading
And I’m imaging M52, the bubble nebula, NGC 7538 and NGC 7510 with a single mini-WASP frame.
Flitting through a planetarium program I stumbled upon a nice bright Carbon star in Corona Borealis. Designated SAO 84015 at magnitude 6 this should look really great! So a couple of nights ago I fired up the mini-WASP to grab … Continue reading
Another object bagged by the mini-WASP array during the recent period of clear Moonless nights. This time it is the Globular Cluster M10 in the constellation Ophiucus. 7 x 10-minute sub-exposures on all 3 cameras.
Lovely clear night again last night, but with a blazing Moon in the south it meant imaging towards the north. Decided on a cluster rich region close to Ruchbah in Cassiopeia as the target. Mini-WASP array, all 3 cameras firing, … Continue reading
It’s 11:30 p.m. – I’m in the NFO control room. Queen is on BBC4 and “Hammer to Fall” is blasting out, expecting the ASBO to be delivered any second. All 4 computers monitors on, I’m imaging 7 clusters and … Continue reading
