I managed to get some time on the Coat-hanger cluster earlier this month using one TS 80 and Sky 90 each with an M26C one shot colour CCD. Although there was an interfering Moon about it still came out quite nice with a very busy background with lots of interesting dark lanes. Image acquired by Greg Parker at the New Forest Observatory using the revolutionary mini-WASP parallel imaging array and expertly processed by Noel Carboni in Florida U.S.A.
Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) is this recent image of the Double Cluster and Greg’s Charm Bracelet taken at the New Forest Observatory using the mini-WASP array. Image processing by Noel Carboni in Florida U.S.A. Thank you Jim for continuing to publish our work 🙂
Here are two recent images taken using the mini-WASP parallel imaging array at the New Forest Observatory.
The red emission nebula is the California nebula in Perseus and this is a work in progress as this is only 6 x half hour RGB subs at present. I will also be grabbing H-alpha, H-beta and even more RGB on this one when the weather permits.
The Double Cluster also in Perseus, is the lower half of a 2-framer I am putting together which will show the Double Cluster together with the large open cluster Stock 2 which lies north of the Double Cluster. I only need to grab an hour of actual imaging time to finish this one off.
Both images were processed by Noel Carboni in Florida, U.S.A.
Well we have the early dark evenings, now all we need are some clear Moonless skies to go with them.
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See the Paramount ME check around over 90 pounds of gear as if it were weightless 🙂 Some of the deep-sky images on the Scientific Artist have been taken with this kit – plenty more coming up soon, if the weather plays ball.
Got the Earth Science Picture of the Day for August 5th 2012 with the Algol/Rho Persei image. Thank you Jim for continuing to publish the images coming out of the New Forest Observatory 🙂
While I have been tuning up scope 1/camera 1 I have had scope 2/camera 2 nicely in collimation so it would be daft not to get some data in whilst trying to sort out the other half of the mini-WASP array. So scope 2/camera 2 have been imaging the Deneb region (as below) and I’ve added another 2 and a half hours to the 3 half-hour sub exposures taken in the image below. With a total of 4-hours exposure time on the region – it’s now beginning to look quite nice 🙂
Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) is the recent M13, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, captured by Greg Parker at the New Forest Observatory and expertly processed by Noel Carboni in Florida U.S.A. Thank you Jim for continuing to publish our work 🙂
The “ring” in this case is the planetary nebula called the “Ring nebula” (Messier 57) in the constellation Lyra, and the diamonds are the two bright stars either side of the ring namely Beta and Gamma Lyrae. Alpha Lyrae is of course the brilliant blue-white star Vega, one of the “summer triangle” of stars comprising Vega, Deneb and Altair.
5 hours of Hyperstar III data (3 hours in 10-minute subs, 1 hour in 1-minute subs and 1 hour in 50-second subs) collected at the New Forest Observatory and subsequently processed by Noel Caboni in Florida U.S.A. In addition Noel compared my data to some earlier data he processed from the DSS and found a high proper motion star (the DSS data is from 20 years ago and one of the stars in the image has moved a considerable distance in the intervening 20 years). This Hyperstar III data goes every bit as deep as the DSS data collected with the Oschin-Schmidt camera.
I have wanted to image this object since seeing it in a picture years ago. I didn’t bother because I thought it would be far too small in the Hyperstar III field of view to be of any interest. As it turns out – it’s quite a bit bigger than I was expecting. This is planetary nebula Abell 39 in the constellation Hercules – a perfectly spherical blue ball.