Monthly Archives: October 2013

PST imaging adaptor

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

To avoid the use of a diagonal I turned up an adaptor from a piece of aluminium that takes the PST eyepiece unit and allows a camera to reach focus without a diagonal, so there’s nothing else in the light … Continue reading →

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Lay a little egg for me…

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

Over the last four or five years we’ve taken an incubator and chicken eggs into the childrens’ school for one of the classes to have in their classroom for the whole of the incubation period and perhaps a couple of … Continue reading →

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Oh, go on then, just a couple more…

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

Yes, two more Messier globular clusters to add to the collection. These, M10 and M14, are the last for the time being. I have a few other things I want to try out now.

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Yet more Messier clusters

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

A change of target for the next imaging session. Having got as much as I felt I could out of M3 and M5 for the time being, I moved on to some new globular clusters. This time M53, M12 and … Continue reading →

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Feeding my cluster habit

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

Messiers 3 and 5 have become something of a fixation in my attempts to do some DSO imaging with the 127 Mak, but this night they were joined by the second Messier cluster in Hercules, M92. I think these may … Continue reading →

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Modded PST fitted to a dovetail

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

Someone suggested to me that Munsen rings might be a good way to fix my PST to a dovetail. As they looked far more straightforward than having to turn some fittings from solid aluminium I thought I’d give them a … Continue reading →

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Another accidental ISS

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

It seems as though sometimes you just can’t keep these people out of your images…

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Another crack at M3 and M5

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

The same details as my previous attempt the day before, but I think these ones are a little better. Focus is sharper, I think, and the colours have come through better.

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Widefield Bootes and Hercules

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

The night preceeding my M3 and M5 efforts I managed a couple of widefield images of the constellations Bootes and Hercules using just the 450D with the stock 18-55mm lens focused at around 25mm focal length according to the EXIF … Continue reading →

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Another couple of 127 Mak Messier objects

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

Hot on the heels of my “success” with M13, I decided to have a try at M3 and M5. I suffered the same problems with unusable subs for exactly the same reasons: it’s really pushing the mount too hard to … Continue reading →

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