Took a look outside around 11:00 p.m. to see that we had really nice clear skies – that was unexpected. Can’t let a clear sky go to waste so I went out for an evening’s work tuning up the mini-WASP … Continue reading
Today being the summer Solstice for 2012, and seeing as it has rained all day, I opened up the two Tea caddy pinhole cameras that I put up last winter Solstice. So here we have 6-months worth of Sun trails … Continue reading
I managed to get runner-up in the “Split Second” category of the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards 2012 with my “eggsplosion” high-speed flash image. Hoping to do just that bit better in 2013 🙂
I have just downloaded the 60-day trial version of PEMPro from CCDWare (I already use their brilliant CCDInspector software) for evalutaion. PEMPro allows you to polar align and train the PEC for your mount. As I want to be able … Continue reading
Below I published images of the beginning and the end of the transit (downloaded live from the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite) – but for some reason I did not include an image from near the middle of the transit. Rectified … Continue reading
I used all the individual frames of the animation to put together this montage of the 2012 Transit of Venus. In the very last image of the Sun, Venus has just passed the edge of the Sun and we will … Continue reading
Some single stills images of the 2012 transit of Venus from last night/early this morning.
This was the view of the 4-monitors in the New Forest Observatory Control Centre last night/this morning during the Transit of Venus. Screen top left was Norway – this was the first to show ingress, a good few minutes ahead … Continue reading
A couple of nights ago I had an hour to continue setting up the mini-WASP array before in came the cloud. I was working on collimating camera 1 to scope 1 (camera 2 is well-collimated to scope 2 and giving … Continue reading
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
