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Category Archives: Astronomy
A quick snap of Caldwell 4, The Iris Nebula
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
Start of a new M27
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
Waning Moon, 26th August 2019
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
Waning Moon, 24th August 2019
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
Waning Moon, 23rd August 2019
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
Waning Moon, 21st August 2019
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
Waning Moon, 20th August 2019
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
Waning Moon, 19th August 2019
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
Telescope Polar Alignment, Part Three — The Return of PHD2
As mentioned in an earlier post, the last mount in my observatory cannot be polar aligned directly as it has no view of the celestial pole. After giving things a bit of time I decided I’d just have to bite … Continue reading
We have fermentation!
A day or so after adding the yeast to my Blobservatory Bitter, it looks like they’re hard at work. A nice raft of top-fermenting yeasty beasties…