New Forest Observatory ®

The day after I took the Altair left hand frame it was clear again – but with a lot of thin high cloud. Never mind I’ll still image just to keep the kit running over. Decided I would go for Sadr as it had passed the Meridian and was in a good position for me. Managed to get 8 x 15-minute subs with the 200mm lenses and the ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras. As expected, bloated stars and a general fuzzy image – BUT – this has huge potential for a very nice image if I can get a nice clear Moonless night. So this one is definitely next on the list for the 200mm lenses.

I took a massive crop into Altair to show that all the fine dust really is stars.

Looked out at 10 p.m. last night and couldn’t believe it was clear. Satellite showed Hampshire completely surrounded by thick cloud. So I managed to image the left frame of Barnard’s “E” and then the cloud rolled in just as I was packing up. It doesn’t usually work that way in this game. However, I got 30 x 10-minute subs for the left frame which combined with the 30 x 10-minute subs for the right hand frame makes this one a 10-hour image. 2 x Canon 200mm prime lenses and 2 x ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras was the imaging kit.

This is a 2-frame mosaic of the whole of Canis Minor taken with the Canon 200mm prime lenses and the Trius M26C OSC CCDs. Bottom left is Procyon, top right is Gomeissa. Now I have no idea how this happened – but the previous image I showed had Gomeissa (top right) in the incorrect orientation. However in this image – all is as it should be 🙂