Well with the Sky 90 doing the imaging and the poor C11 just acting as a guide scope we are rapidly coming to the point where I go the whole hog and move over to mini-WASP imaging. Doesn’t look like … Continue reading
With the current weather I have not been able to set up the repaired M25C for any imaging and I am aware of the days ticking past with nothing new to add 🙁 Still, this gives me a little time … Continue reading
I went over to what I thought was going to be a “dark” bit of the forest around 10:00 p.m. last night and got worse sky glow on the horizon (from Southampton) than I get in my back garden. So … Continue reading
Today it was brought home to me just how dangerous it is to work on your own in this imaging business. Tom How is a local guy and an imaging expert, and we only recently realised that we hadn’t met up … Continue reading
Testing out my all-sky imaging rig ready for next week’s maximum in the Perseid meteor shower. AstroTrac, Canon 5D MkII camera, Canon 15mm fish-eye lens and Canon electronic shutter controller. You might just make out a faint Perseid bottom left … Continue reading
Last night I managed to grab the frame to the right of the Cocoon nebula – whilst at the same time getting some ultra-wide-fields of the Perseids using the Canon 5D MkII, 15mm fish-eye lens and AstroTrac. Anyway – I … Continue reading
I am using a Bryan Mumford Time Machine and the high speed flash gear from http://www.highspeedflash.com/ to create some visually stunning images of water collisions – an example is here: Some spikes added to the highlights using Noel Carboni’s plug-in … Continue reading
I also mounted two pinhole cameras outside the house on a south facing wall. These cameras were based on beer cans as the Ilford photographic paper fits very nicely inside a standard size aluminium beer can. Like the indoor cameras … Continue reading
I’ve just opened the pinhole camera in my study (one day early). This was behind the double glazing in a rectangular tea caddy tin box. You can see the NFO dome towards the right, and a neighbour’s house over the … Continue reading
This one went absolutely everywhere and I’ll be cleaning up the mess for weeks. It’s still far from perfect but I don’t think I’m capable of doing much better – so I’m calling it a day on the eggs.
