Category Archives: Projects

The sleep deprivation over this past week’s worth of clear Moonless nights hit harder than I thought.  I have just found this data from 28th September – and I can’t remember taking it 🙂  Well if that isn’t a bonus … Continue reading →

Last night I took a single frame using the M26C camera and the one collimated Sky 90 refractor to capture the very north of the North America nebula – an area I have not imaged properly before.  Managed to get … Continue reading →

And here’s the “straight out of Photoshop” version with no added contrast enhancement or saturation courtesy of PaintShopPro.

The very quick “process” I did on the NGC7000 image below was no more than a DPP pass and bolt the two frames together – would have taken less than 10-minutes as I just wanted to see what the image … Continue reading →

Another 1-hour image (only 6 x 10-minute subs) from the early hours of this morning.  This is the North America nebula NGC7000 with the Pelican making a cameo appearance on the right.  This time the mount was dithered so not … Continue reading →

I’ve had my suspicions for quite a while now, but for some reason after just over 5 years  it has finally jelled in my last two remaining neurons what the problem has been. From way back when I was imaging … Continue reading →

Well here it is – one hour’s worth of data taken with the two M26C cameras on the New Forest Observatory mini-WASP array.  Still lots to be done before it’s properly tuned in – but I’m pretty close now.  As … Continue reading →

It has been a glorious day all day with clear blue skies – and this time it didn’t fog over as soon as the Sun went down.  So I started the final hard bash at getting the mini-WASP array commissioned … Continue reading →

As I sit here with a gale roaring outside and the rain pelting down I wonder if I will ever see a clear sky again – and this got me thinking about how I will run the mini-WASP array. It … Continue reading →