We’ve obviously convinced Astronomy Now that our pictures are worth seeing – they are publishing our latest image of The Double Cluster in Perseus (central region) in the November issue on page 101.
This image was taken as a single Hyperstar frame using the SXV-H9C camera.
It gets better, Astronomy Now magazine have published our images of Messier 13 in colour and black&white on page 93 of the September issue. These were entered for their Messier Challenge.
The images are a single Hyperstar frame using the SXV-H9C camera.
This is a great magazine and they have picked our image of Messier 51. You’ll find our picture in issue 3, page 82. The image was taken at f#6.3 on the Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS reflector as a single frame using the SXV-H9C one-shot colour camera. This was only 20 minutes total exposure using 200 second subs.
Starizona image of the Month – Awesome! They picked our image of NGC7000 and the Pelican nebula which is a 5-frame Hyperstar mosaic.
Out of interest: Starizona manufacture and sell the Hyperstar lens assemblies for the Celestron Nexstar Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes.
Finally! I have managed to eradicate the one minus point of having the Nexstar and motor drives in the dome!
I upgraded the motor drives from version 30.30 to version 40.40 (download available from the Celestron site). Amongst the many benefits of the upgrade was that the telescope tracking is now entirely silent – HOORAY!
