Monthly Archives: August 2019

Rassin’ frassin’ satellites!

Posted on August 29, 2019 by james

All astroimagers know they can be a pain, but was there really any need for this on the first sub of an imaging run?

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Swimming, 27th August 2019

Posted on August 29, 2019 by james

Eeek! The moment I got into the pool today, I discovered that it was ridiculously warm. There was no chance of swimming a proper set, so I just got on with what I could. A quite unpleasant swim all round, … Continue reading →

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A couple of galaxies

Posted on August 29, 2019 by james

A couple more images from the Photoline 72 and ASI174MM last night. No filters, as for the earlier image of the Iris. M51 is 30 minutes of 90s subs, stacked, stretched and cropped, but no darks. Looking at the full … Continue reading →

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A quick snap of Caldwell 4, The Iris Nebula

Posted on August 29, 2019 by james

Whilst the 80ED was working ok M27 last night, I had a bit of a play with the Photoline 72 and ASI174MM. This is 75 minutes of 300 second subs. No filters as I only have one set, but I … Continue reading →

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Start of a new M27

Posted on August 29, 2019 by james

Other than a couple of weeks back as my first test from the new observatory, I last imaged this six years ago. It’s one of my favourites, so an obvious choice to revisit as I’m getting everything together again and … Continue reading →

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Waning Moon, 26th August 2019

Posted on August 29, 2019 by james

I took 100 subs (1/500th @ ISO800) for this image at the end of quite a long night last night. The seeing had been excellent, but I’m not really happy with the outcome here. I think perhaps the DSLR doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Waning Moon, 24th August 2019

Posted on August 29, 2019 by james

Another clear night, another moonshot… Pleased with this one. Copernicus seems to have come out well and there are plenty of hints of high peaks beyond the terminator. Lack of sleep means I can’t recall the exact circumstances at the … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 23rd August 2019

Posted on August 29, 2019 by james

Last swim of the week, and a new target time: 400m f/c warm-up 24 x 50m f/c, target time 49s, turnaround 75s 200m swim down I first failed on rep sixteen for this set, and finished with one additional failure. … Continue reading →

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Waning Moon, 23rd August 2019

Posted on August 29, 2019 by james

I’m such a martyr, I really am 😀 It was mostly cloudy last night so I’d abandoned all hope of imaging and got into some development work on oacapture/oalive. Time passed quickly, as it does, and before I knew it … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 22 August 2019

Posted on August 29, 2019 by james

Same session with the 49.5s target time today, and I made all the reps comfortably, so next time the target drops to 49s. But… Big news of the day was doing another “fast fifty” at 39.17s! Frankly I’m astonished to … Continue reading →

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