Well it wasn’t a two week wait to see what happened – I crumbled just a few days after the last mini-WASP report and ordered up a Paramount ME from Kieron at SCS Astro – it is due to be … Continue reading
It’s been about a year since my last report on this project, and that last article actually said very little 🙂 I am on the point of putting my hand in my wallet (you cannot begin to understand the amount … Continue reading
I just spent the day at Tony Allen’s photographic studio in Oxford with my high speed flash units. We had another go at the water-filled balloons as they are so much fun. Here’s a result from today’s efforts. This exposure … Continue reading
I was recently asked about a problem in maintaining polar alignment due to a heavy scope being cantilevered all over the place on a wedge. The standard Celestron wedge (which I use) would also give you problems as the heavy … Continue reading
Here’s how the two beer can pinhole cameras look on the South-facing wall of my house. I hope we are not intending to sell within the next year or so as potential buyers may be put off by the sight. … Continue reading
I have just made up 2 beer can pinhole cameras (see Justin Quinnell’s website to see how to do this) and fitted them to a wooden frame on a South-facing wall of the house. I have opened the shutter (removed … Continue reading
And to finish off yesterday’s theme I just had to try to capture the action when a 0.22″ air rifle pellet says hello to a raw egg – or two. Note the pellet exiting stage left in the first image!
From one extreme to the other 🙂 Some of my longest total exposure times in astrophotography exceed 60 hours!! At the other end of the scale I also carry out high-speed photography using flash equipment that kicks out 9 microsecond … Continue reading
Although I am still imaging in inner space, at least the latest venture has an astro-imaging application. I have just purchased Noel Carboni’s Fractal Sharpening tool which works with Genuine Fractals (also purchased at the same time) and Adobe Photoshop. … Continue reading
I have been playing around again with the microscope and Helicon Focus. Now although this is not deep-sky imaging, a lot of the data collection and data processing is very similar to deep-sky work. First of all you need to … Continue reading
