The Caph region in Cassiopeia

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Greg Parker
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The Caph region of Cassiopeia taken with the Canon 200mm prime lenses. 14 x 15-minute subs taken on 3rd October 2018.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day APOD

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Greg Parker

November 30th 2018 – Struve’s Lost nebula

https://epod.usra.edu/blog/2018/11/struves-lost-nebula.html

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The Veil nebula in wide-field

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Greg Parker
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30-minute subs with the 2 x 200mm lenses for a total of 4.5 hours. 12th September 2018. Clear Moonless night, started imaging at 11:00 p.m.

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NGC 7209 in Lacerta

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Greg Parker
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A Sky90 array image of open cluster NGC7209 in Lacerta. 18 x 10-minute subs taken on 1st September 2018. 

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Another ISS pass and a Summer sky with Mars

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Greg Parker

Another 6-minute pass of the ISS last night 23/07/2018 and a quick shot of the Summer sky with Mars low down in the south.

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Last night’s 6-minute ISS pass

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Greg Parker

The sky was too light for me to see the Cygnus pass.

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MiniWASP article

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Greg Parker

https://astronomytechnologytoday.com/2018/06/28/multi-imager-systems-development-of-the-miniwasp-parallel-imaging-telescope-array-at-the-new-forest-observatories/

 

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Cocoon nebula region

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Greg Parker

I added some extra data to the top (north) of this one and reprocessed the lot again.  Canon 200mm prime lenses with the Trius M26C OSC CCDs – a horizontal 2-frame mosaic with each frame in portrait mode.

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Still no hours of darkness

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Greg Parker

No new deep-sky images until we get some darkness returning to the southern UK towards the end of this month.  At this time of year we only have twilight throughout the evening and it doesn’t get really dark.  I have imaged in June/early July before now, and only recently realised the images were much noisier than I expected – I now know why.

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The NGC6914 reflection nebula region in Cygnus

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Greg Parker

A complete reprocess of the data incorporating Noel Carboni’s AstroFlat plugin.

51 x 20-minute subs using the 3 x Sky 90s and M26C OSC CCDs on the MiniWASP array at the New Forest Observatory.

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