Saturday, January 25, 2025

Thor's Helmet nebula

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A Seestar S50 was used to capture 33 minutes worth of 10s RAW exposures of Thor's Helmet nebula NGC 2359 over a period of about an hour....

The Sombrero Galaxy, Needle Galaxy and the Flame and Horsehead nebulae

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Click on an image to get a closer view Sombrero Galaxy (M104) : I was waiting patiently for some clear skies to get some additional blue sub...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Chris Followell gave a live and Zoom talk on Robotic telescopes

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Chris Followell gave a fascinating live and Zoom talk on Robotic telescopes. He satisfactorily answered the question as to whether a user of...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

The Sun in white and Ca K-line light

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The Sun in white and Ca K-line light. A Seestar S50 was used to capture 3 minute RAW AVIs either Through a Baader OD 5.0 solar filter, or an...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Reprocessed Flaming Star region

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My wide field image of the Flaming Star region taken with my Rokinon 135mm prime lens at f/2.8, mounted on my 1300D DSLR canon camera. The c...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

95% waning Moon

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A three minute RAW AVI was captured of the 95% waning Moon with a Seestar S50 telescope. The AVI was debayered and the best 80% of the frame...

The Sun in White light and Ca K-line light

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A Seestar S50 was used to capture 3 minute RAW AVIs either Through a Baader OD 5.0 solar filter, or an OD 5.0 filter and a Baader Ca K-line ...

Jupiter

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A prototype SC715C camera was fitted with a x 2 Barlow and placed at the focus of a Skymax 127. AstroDMx Capture was used to capture a 3156 ...

The Sun in white light and H-alpha light

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Click on an image to get a closer view Sun in White Light :  Using a Herschel Wedge connected to a Sky Watcher 80 Esprit a 5,500 frame SER ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Sun in white and Ca K-line light.

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A Seestar S50 was used to capture 3 minute RAW AVIs either Through a Baader OD 5.0 solar filter, or an OD 5.0 filter and a Baader Ca K-line ...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Sun in White Light

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A stack of 45 ARw's taken at 1pm today with a Sony ZV-E10 camera using a 350mm zoom lens at F6.3, ISO 50 and 1/500" exposure. The o...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Dr Andrew Mclean gave live and Zoom talk entitled A Pulsar Miscellany

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 Dr Andrew Mclean (SAS) gave live and Zoom talk entitled  A Pulsar Miscellany. The informative talk held the audience's attention and ex...

79.8% waxing Moon

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A three minute RAW AVI was captured of the 79.8% waxing Moon with a Seestar S50 telescope. The AVI was debayered and the best 75% of the fra...

High resolution images

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Nicola is in the process of implementing a prototype uncooled camera, the SC715C based on the IMX715 sensor which has tiny pixels of 1.45 μm...

The Auriga region

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My wide field image of the Auriga region taken with my Rokinon 135mm prime lens at f/2.8,mounted on a 1300 D  DSLR Canon camera. The camera ...

The Sun in White light and Ca K-line light

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Click on an image to get a closer view. As the Sun rises over the mountain, wind turbines are a problem that we have to wait until the Sun r...

Thor's helmet

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NGC 2359 (Thor's helmet) in SHO: This morning I managed to get 2 hours of SII data to go with an hour of Ha data taken on the 1st Jan an...