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Gomeisa from 23rd February 2017

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Greg Parker

Found I had this one on the hard drive while processing last night’s Procyon data.

This is the bright star just above Procyon – Gomeisa.

15 subs of 15-minutes taken with the Sky 90 array and M26C OSC CCDs.

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Procyon region from 22/03/2017

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Greg Parker

No Moon and some clear sky between 8:15 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.

Set up the 2 x 200mm lenses on the Procyon region for the first of 2 frames containing Procyon and Gomeisa. Got the Procyon frame and cropped it down to fit with some earlier Procyon data taken with the Sky 90. Here is the Registar bolt-together of the 2 datasets.

11 x 9-minute subs with the 200mm lenses and M26C cameras from last night.

Around 3-hours of 10-minutes subs from the Sky 90 and M25C from earlier.

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Lunar Halo

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Greg Parker

A 22-degree lunar halo taken last night (09/03/2017) at 8:20 p.m.

Lovely view of Orion too.

Red flashing light photobombing the image was a military helicopter which was tailing another military helicopter that had NO LIGHTS showing!!

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Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Greg Parker

Got today’s EPOD with the recent deep Pleiades image.

Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.

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The DELL PowerEdge C6100 MegaNode machine

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Greg Parker

As a month has now gone past, I have just this minute ordered another 4 x Xeon 2.93GHz hex-core CPUs for the DELL PowerEdge C6100 quad node server. So when they arrive and are put in I will have 4 dual processor nodes number crunching the primes.

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