Category Archives: Projects

Well although I was clouded out last night I still managed to image asteroid 2012 DA14 through the thinnest part of the cloud 🙂  A single solitary one-minute exposure as the asteroid was moving through Draco at 22:51.  The planetarium … Continue reading →

There is a large circular emission nebula in the head of Orion centred on Meissa.  This huge H-alpha region lies just above Betelgeuse and Bellatrix and actually spans the region between those two stars – so this is a huge … Continue reading →

This is the Carbon star 4-Omicron 1 Orionis which lies close to Aldebaran in the constellation Orion.  SAO94176 has a magnitude of 4.71 and so is naked eye from a reasonably dark site. This is a mini-WASP array image using … Continue reading →

I fitted an Orion finder/guider scope to the top plate of the mini-WASP array today.  Well it was raining and I had nothing better to do.  However there is a purpose in the madness.  I will simply swap the guide … Continue reading →

All I wanted to do was drill and tap 4 holes in the top plate of the mini-WASP array to take a dovetail fitting that will hold an Orion finder/guider scope.  4 holes drilled, three tapped when the tap broke … Continue reading →

Got a few clear hours a couple of nights ago and set up the mini-WASP array on the Meissa nebulosity – all 3 cameras/scopes up and running for this one 🙂  Got 8 x 20-minutes of RGB on each camera, … Continue reading →

Here is a two-frame mini-WASP image of the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra.

I just reprocessed this earlier Camera 2 mini-WASP data from 2012 with a heavier crop and a little more careful processing.

Just a few weeks after I started to run the Paramount ME I hit trouble – the mount would not home in declination properly.  When I hit “home”, the declination axis would move in a clockwise direction, go past the … Continue reading →

Taken in early January 2013 using the mini-WASP array.  18 subs at 4-minutes per sub using all 3 cameras – so 216 imaging minutes in total – the mini-WASP array really grabs the maximum amount of data in the shortest … Continue reading →