Another Dual-Narrowband offering this time, again from last October. This is a closeup of part of the Pelican Nebula – an H2 region associated with the North America nebula in Cygnus. This area is...
This enigmatic object is the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula, which forms part of IC1396 in Cepheus. It’s around 2,400 light years from Earth, and is a column of dark material, inside which stars are forming,...
The first of some images taken over the last few months that I haven’t got around to posting yet, this is an image of the Wizard Nebula, NGC7380, in hydrogen Alpha. This is, I...
One of the things I was concerned about when moving from DSLR to CCD was the change in the size of the sensor chip I’d be imaging with. I was concerned about not being...
This beauty is the core of the Soul Nebula (also known as Westerhout 5), in Cassiopeia. this is an Emission Nebula, that has large cavities carved out of it by the radiation and solar winds...
This image was a nice side effect of an evening put aside to get plate solving working. Turns out that (for once), getting the plate solving sorted was so quick and easy that I...
This image is groundbreaking for me in several ways. Firstly, up until that point, it was by far the longest integration I had got on any object. Integration is the term to describe the...
Well… it’s taken it’s sweet time, but I think I’m finally there. Where, I hear you ask? Where is there? There, just so happens to be a point at which my imaging has finally...
See what I did there? No? Ah well… Today’s post is a bit of a lessons learned post. First – which of these statements is true :- Collimation is important SCTs keep their collimation...
This image is one I’ve wanted to capture for a while. This is one part of a string of galaxies known as Markarian’s Chain, that form part of the huge Virgo Cluster. I’ve decided...
This is a mono capture the Leo Trio of galaxies. People refer to it as the Leo Triplet, but I prefer the way Leo Trio rolls off the tongue…!
For the last few years, I’ve had what I like to call the ‘Flash Gremlins’ visiting me fairlyt regularly. This is how I dealt with them…
I recently acquired an addition to my astronomical imaging arsenal. A mono Atik 314L (not the 314L+), came up for an extremely good price on an astro-classifieds site, and finally, I bit the bullet...
I love a project. A few weeks ago, I was at doomed UK electronics tat-merchant Maplin, looking for some bargains in their closing-down sale. Incidentally, I love what Maplin used to be, but unfortunately,...
A reasonably clear night (with some intermittent cloud, but nicely transparent in between), prompted me to get the 8″ LX90ACF out, and slap the ZWO ASI120MC in the back and capture some photons reflected...
After a long hiatus, I finally managed to get back out under the stars to capture some faint fuzzies again. Being the time of year where Orion is sitting high up in the South...
This is a set of three shots of Jupiter captured in May 2017. All consist of the best 4000 of 8000 frames captured in Firecapture with my ASI120MC planetary camera through the 8″ LX90ACF...
This is a reprocess of previous data on M101 taken back in 2014. It consists of 1hr 35mins of data in 4m exposures at ISO 800 with the modified 1100D and Astronomik CLS...
Another image taken at Kelling Heath Star Party – M45, the Pleiades in Taurus. This is the closest star cluster to us, and glows blue with the young stars, embedded in whispy nebulosity. Captured...
This Image of the Western Veil Nebula (NGC 6960) was captured at Kelling Heath in September 2015. It’s around 2 hours of exposure with my modded Canon 1100D with my Starwave 102ED mounted on...
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