Category Archives: Projects

While I was collimating camera 1 to scope 1 I took some 3-minute subs of Vega using the well-tuned camera 2 and scope 2.  This is literally a 2-second process of the data just to see what I had taken … Continue reading →

Much to my great relief my attempt to re-collimate the second Sky 90 (which had somehow lost its good collimation) was successful.  And on top of that we had clear skies last night for me to test the imaging results … Continue reading →

Only 3 half-hour subs but I am extremely pleased with the result!!  No dither so full of hot pixels, but good quality stars corner to corner on an APS sized chip – the Sky 90 CAN deliver the goods, but … Continue reading →

You will have seen the recent M57 image from one of the mini-WASP cameras and last night I took 3 x 30-minute subs of the Deneb region with the same camera just to check I could manage 30-minute subs with … Continue reading →

This is the result of 7 x 20-minute subs with camera 2 on the mini-WASP array, camera 1 needs some fine collimation/chip flatness tweaking, camera 2 on the other hand is almost spot on!!  Reason for 20-minute subs was to … Continue reading →

Managed to polar align the mini-WASP array last night, while in parallel I was taking some LONG subs with the HSIII on M13 going for the faint stuff.  Now it really is just a few odds and ends to fine … Continue reading →

Testing out the re-collimated Sky 90s I took an image of the Vega region using both scopes and cameras.  This is a Registar combine of both sets of data.  There is some field rotation in all 4 corners of the … Continue reading →