Category Archives: Astroimaging

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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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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Waning Moon, 21st August 2019

Posted on August 29, 2019 by james

Three nights on the bounce! But this one was a bit of an adventure. What was foreast as a few of hours of clear sky after the Moon rose stopped about two minutes after I kicked off the run to … Continue reading →

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Waning Moon, 20th August 2019

Posted on August 29, 2019 by james

Two nights in a row clear enough to get an image of the Moon! Best 45 of 100 frames from the 450D and 127 Mak again, but this time 1/500th sec exposure to try to reduce the effects of wobbly … Continue reading →

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Waning Moon, 19th August 2019

Posted on August 21, 2019 by james

So, a newly-aligned mount and just past full Moon, what’s a chap to do? Well, when the sky gives you moons, make moon images! I broke out the 127 Mak and 450D and dropped them on top of the HEQ5. … Continue reading →

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M27 revisited

Posted on August 20, 2019 by james

Whilst messing about with aligning my other mounts I decided I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get a bit of imaging done with the first, despite not having spend any time improving the sky model, nor having any guiding, … Continue reading →

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Lunar Eclipse, July 2019

Posted on August 13, 2019 by james

I’d forgotten I had these, but July this year found me in France for the lunar eclipse. By complete coincidence the second summer holiday in a row where I’d been able to watch a lunar eclipse. Sadly I was ill-prepared … Continue reading →

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My first meteor image

Posted on June 4, 2019 by james

Ok, so this was accidental, but I’m sure it counts 🙂 I found it whilst reviewing frames for my last star trails image. I’d seen a meteor that night and wondered if it was caught on camera, but didn’t initially … Continue reading →

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Star fails

Posted on June 4, 2019 by james

As the rest of the family has been seeing the observatory slowly being constructed over the last year and we had some clear sky I thought I’d have a go at something fun to show them now I’ve reached the … Continue reading →

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Building an observatory. Construction #19

Posted on October 2, 2018 by james

The next step with the roof is to put some bracing across some of the joins, partly to strengthen them, but also to provide fixing points for the rest of the roof. I had some spare steel sheet to do … Continue reading →

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