Fist Light with the new ZWO 1600mm pro camera….
It’s on
Well I have coupled everything up. I’m not an amazing fan of OAG’s but I had one in the spares box and just thought it was simpler to try it out. In the end it was all for nothing as I couldn’t get both the camera and guide camera into focus at the same time. I should have got loads of spare spacers and adaptors when I got the camera so would have…
New Toy Time
Look what the postman has just delivered. Having seen how successful all my astro friends have been with their new One Shot Colour cameras, I decided to join the them. While the plan is not to use this for taking really deep sky images, but rather allow me to use it as an aid in my various visual projects, when I can’t be arsed go outside in the winter and freeze my tail off…
Spring Silage Cut 2019
Bails from our late Spring first silage cut Top field3Pipe field4First field5Ivytree field4Total Yield16
Imaging Session: 15, April
This is one of those retrospective posts of an image I took way back in 2019. IC4604 Session Data Date: 15/04/20219 Time: 17:09 – 17:52 UT Seeing: Unknown Transparency: Mostly Clear, Temp: Unknown Air Pressure: Unknown Humidity: Unknown Dew Point: Unknown Wind Speed: Unknown Scope: Televue P127 APO f/5.3 Camera: FLI Proline PL1608 Filter: Astrodon Ha Calibration: Dark and Flat subtracted. A remote imaging session using T9 in Siding Springs Australia. I know this…
NGC 224 -M31
I finally managed to get a good spell of clear weather in New Mexico. M31 is such a popular target for imagers and we see so many images of it, but it really does suit this scope and camera combination. I also wanted to practice my processing skills in Pixinsight, especially as colour is not something I have done much of. This is an assembled LRGB image. The luminance consists of 11 x 300…