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Quick Pic – 10th-13th August 2022 (Perseid meteors)

Posted by on August 14th 2022 in Astrostuff, Observing Reports, Pics

Here's a rough-and-ready shot of one of the Perseids caught on camera during the current shower.

 

 

For all mankind… to see

Posted by on March 19th 2022 in Astrostuff, In the News
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Russian cosmonauts Denis Matveyev, Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Korsakov, all in Ukrainian colours, boarding the International Space Station:

It was live-streamed by both NASA and Roscosmos, so there's a fair chance that Putin saw it but couldn't stop others there seeing it.

 

Observing Report 17th-18th January 2022 (Wolf Moon)

Posted by on January 20th 2022 in Astrostuff, Observing Reports, Pics

The first observing session of the year, the first full moon of the year, the first coloured moon pic of the year:

Wolf Moon (17/01/2022)

Observing Report 19th-20th September 2019 (Moon RC+ASI174MC – Take #2)

Posted by on October 1st 2019 in Astrostuff, Observing Reports

Well, there's little point in having a colour camera but posting lowly b&w pics. Same data as before, but a different processing method.

Again, feel free to click it to go large.

 

Note to self: ZWO ASI174MC on RC6, undebayered raw in FC, debayer RGGB VNG in FCdeb, satsx6 in vdub, K3x1, Reg5, PS merge RGB and  L.

Observing Report 19th-20th September 2019 (Moon RC+ASI174MC)

Posted by on September 26th 2019 in Astrostuff, Observing Reports
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Seeing was better, decided to try out the ASI174MC on the RC6, this is a two-panel stitch. Feel free to click it.

 

Note to self: ZWO ASI174MC on RC6, undebayered raw in FC, debayer RGGB VNG in FCdeb, K3x1, Reg5, PS.

Observing Report 24th August 2019 (Backstop)

Posted by on August 27th 2019 in Astrostuff, Observing Reports

Seeing was bad, not much chance of imaging galaxies or nebulae, so I went for the Moon instead:

 

Note to self: ZWO ASI174MC, undebayered raw in FC, debayer RGGB in FCdeb, K3x2, Reg5, PS.