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Messier Globulars revisited

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

Having moved to a new mount I thought I’d have a try with a new camera as well. Ok, so not quite a new camera. I’ve had it for a while because I picked it up at a discount when … Continue reading →

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More experiments in solar Ha

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

Another couple of tries with the PST, taken in France on holiday. These ones I’ve managed to do as mosaics and add false colour. I’m still not very happy with them. A good deal of practice is going to be … Continue reading →

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Retiring the EQ3-2

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

Having come to the conclusion that the EQ3-2 just wasn’t up to the demands I was making of it, I’ve finally bitten the bullet and bought a HEQ5 Pro. I’m hopeful this will allow me to make more progress with … Continue reading →

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My first Hydrogen Alpha image

Posted on October 15, 2013 by james

Having spent all this time modding my PST I really needed to do some imaging with it, so here’s my first attempt at a solar Ha image. It’s not brilliant, I’ll grant you, but it’s mine. I’m still experimenting with … Continue reading →

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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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