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
I purchased a good quality microscope for those (many) evenings that are unsuitable for deep-space imaging. The idea is to fit the Canon 40D to the microscope’s third eyepiece (it is a trinocular microscope) and take some photomicrographs – using … Continue reading
It is the first clear day in ages – makes a great change from the dull, dark, grey, completely overcast days we have been experiencing for quite a while now. This is the view towards the West from the New … Continue reading
There hasn’t been a huge amount of progress since the last report. The only change to the array is that I’ve now added the second Sky 90 to the frame as I now use the lightweight Celestron 80mm refractor to … Continue reading
Last night there were some breaks in the cloud and it was also unusually mild. So I took the 40D outside on the tripod (I should have taken the TT320 as well but I wasn’t thinking straight yesterday for reasons … Continue reading
I have security alarms, and a fire extinguisher handy for the observatory – but it took a recent catastrophic failure of a PSU to make me think about putting a smoke alarm in there! Fortunately I had two battery operated … Continue reading
It is just as well I don’t have the funds available to proceed with the mini-WASP concept as it has given me time to think about the whole system. Since coming up with the idea of multiple imaging scopes to effectively … Continue reading
