The new Robofocus mounts were completed and tested today, all looks fine. Now I’m just waiting for a good friend to bring me his Sky 90 as the second imaging scope and I’ll be able to get on with the … Continue reading
Just making a couple of new Aluminium brackets to hold the Robofocus units to the Sky 90s. At present I mount the motors on a plate off the rack and pinion screws which on reflection is probably not the best … Continue reading
Here’s Aldebaran in the correct orientation (North is now up) and a touch of extra processing.
Clear night last night and no obtrusive Moon – only one Sky 90 operational at the moment (I’m taking 2 x Sky 90s to Steve Collingwood tomorrow to see if he can collimate them for me). Anyway – managed to … Continue reading
The white Aluminium box with 4 x HDD bays is my new “Icy Dock” attached storage unit for the mini-WASP data. Each evening’s imaging (if we ever see a clear sky again) will generate a lot of data from the … Continue reading
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
