A negative B&W DSLR image of the view to the south of the New Forest observatory in this one. Can you pick out Orion, the Pleiades, Jupiter, Aldebaran and the Hyades, Auriga, Procyon, Castor & Pollux, Perseus, and other stuff? … Continue reading
Saiph in Orion. Image acquired by Greg Parker at the New Forest Observatory and processed by Noel Carboni in Florida U.S.A.
A mini-WASP array image from a couple of nights back. Captured by Greg Parker at the New Forest Observatory and processed by Noel Carboni in Florida U.S.A.
Beautiful clear Moonless sky last night until just after midnight. Started imaging at 5:55 p.m. one of my earliest starts, so ended up with 7 hours of total imaging time on the mini-WASP array (which equates to 21 hours of … Continue reading
Noel applied his talents to last night’s Mu Cephei data taken using 3 scopes + cameras on the mini-WASP array. Unfortunately, as I hadn’t taken any flats Noel was not able to properly flatten this data, but even so, he … Continue reading
Managed to grab a quick hour and a half between the clouds tonight on the mini-WASP array using all 3 imagers. Got the Garnet star in Cepheus which lies on the edge of the huge emission nebula IC1396. If you … Continue reading
Last night (29/11/2012) I managed to get all 3 scopes and cameras working as one system on the mini-WASP array for the first time 🙂 Up until last night there was always (at least) one scope and camera not playing … Continue reading
While I was tuning one of the scope/cameras on the mini-WASP array I used the other 2 scopes/cameras to do a quick capture of the Coathanger cluster in Vulpecula. 24 subs at 5-minutes per sub gave this nice result.
I added the recent Double Cluster data to older Stock 2 data using the magic program Registar 🙂
While I was tuning up the second Sky 90, I used the first Sky 90 to take some subs in Perseus. Using just the IDAS light pollution filter this image is the result of 20 x 5-minute sub exposures. You … Continue reading
