So last night was the SEVENTH clear Moonless night in a row – up until 2:30 a.m. – and now I’m really done in 🙂
Still – managed 9 x 20-minute subs with the Hyperstar III on the Witch’s Broom, and some time on Arcturus (the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere, not Vega as you might think).
Will process some time today if I can keep awake.
All three data sets added together using Registar.
Another dense Milky Way shot, this time with a Carbon star in the centre of the FOV, V Aquilae, in the constellation Aquila.
How many clear Moonless nights in a row are we going to get??
I recently took a very deep Hyperstar III 2-framer of the Tulip nebula region in Cygnus and Noel Carboni processed the two frame together to give this image 🙂
Yet ANOTHER clear Moonless night last night – and although feeling really sick with sleep deprivation – I went outside and fired up the beast.
Really glad I did as the target was the open cluster M11 which sits in a particularly rich part of the Milky Way called the Scutum star cloud. The accompanying image is Sky 90 data only, there’s two more datasets from the two TS 80s waiting to be processed and amalgamated with the Sky 90 result. And to top it all – it looks like it might be clear AGAIN tonight, not sure if I’m going to survive this 🙂
Isaac Asimov had it right with this dense Milky Way region in Cygnus. Captured last night with the mini-WASP array, 7 x 15-minute subs on all 3 scopes and M26C OSC cameras.
Taken with the HSIII on 04/07/2013 this is an S-type star, SAO 69360 in Cygnus.
Just the Sky 90 data on this one (I also have 2 datasets from the 2 TS 80s) showing the open cluster region around NGC 6871 and NGC 6883 in Cygnus.
There was a fair bit of thin high cloud wandering over last night (as it turned out it didn’t get in the way of Cygnus) and so I only set up the Hyperstar III and didn’t run the mini-WASP array. I hadn’t looked at the framing of this one carefully and centred SAO 69116 in the centre of the HSIII field of view – forgetting that I had the chip in portrait mode rather than landscape mode. Ooops – that meant that I only just got the edge of the Tulip nebula in the frame 🙁 Never mind, I’ll take the second frame another time.
I’ve read some staggeringly good (Auto)Biographies over the last few years, but I have sadly just finished the best ever. You could actually forget that it is an Autobiography – it is a superb science book with penetrative insights into the way research does and does not work. What am I talking about? It is Luis W. Alvarez’s Autobiography titled “Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist”. If you have any interest in Physics whatsoever it really should be on your bookshelf.
