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Monthly Archives: June 2020
Definitely not a meteorite :(
After M51 I decided to move on to a new target and have a crack at M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy. There’s been a lot of fuss about Elon Musk’s starlink constellation and the effects they’re having, and here’s the first … Continue reading
Veg plot 2020, #2
A week or so on from my last photos and the onions are really starting to grow now (as are some of the weeds) and a few of the peas are starting to see daylight as well. These are “Sugar … Continue reading
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Veg plot 2020, #1
Vegetable seeds started arriving in the first week of April and I considered myself lucky to get so much of what I wanted given that just about everyone else in the country seemed to be trying to do the same … Continue reading
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A new “lockdown” vegetable plot
With the impending arrival of lockdown in the UK we decided that it might be useful to grow some more of our own food and it therefore became necessary to increase the space we use for growing vegetables which has … Continue reading
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A first attempt at M51
Through March and into April I attempted to image Messier 51 with my Skywatcher ED80 and Atik 314L+ (mono). I ended up with twenty-six five-minute luminance exposures and nineteen three-minute exposures for each of red, green and blue for a … Continue reading
Possible meteorite image?
I suspect long exposure images that catch genuine meteorites burning up are not that common and I try quite hard to explain any unexpected trails on my images as satellites or aircraft, but this one doesn’t seem to fit and … Continue reading
Guidescope in need of TLC
I recently purchased a used Celestron 80mm guidescope with a focal length of 600mm. Normally I’d probably have gone for another ST80, but in fact I wanted this one to use with a slightly longer focal length OTA anyhow, so … Continue reading
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Tagged celestron, coma, guidescope
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Interesting guiding drift plot
In relatively poor seeing recently, the drift plot for guiding in Ekos showed up like this: An interesting pattern, I thought, like three circles on a line through the centre of the plot. I can’t explain either the circles or … Continue reading
Odd diffraction spikes from a refractor
The other night I was framing an image using my 80ED and Atik 314L when I noticed that some stars in one corner of the image had odd diffraction spikes: I couldn’t see what the problem was at all at … Continue reading
Odd Maksutov reflections
The other night when I slewed to a bright star to check the focus on my Skywatcher 127 Mak I got this image from the ASI174MM camera: I’m thinking the off-centre ring must be a reflection of the bright star, … Continue reading
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