Copernicus in shadow 12th Feb 2011

The Straight Wall 11th Feb 2011

Plato to Hadley Rille 11th Feb 2011

M42 and running man NGC 1977 from 30th Jan 2011

83 frames totalling 27mins exposure, @ISO1600.

Full Moon 19th Jan 2011

Oil painting version of above. (using Pixel bender in CS5)

The Moon tonight 18th Jan 2011

Copernicus from 13th Sept 2009

Hah! found some old data that hadn't been processed until now.
When its cloudy, troll through old data!

Copernicus from 14th Jan 2011

High-res Moon images from 11th Jan 2011

Catherina & Rupes Altai 9th Jan 2011

Messier craters from 9th Jan 2011

Jupiter 9th Jan 2011

Fair to bad seeing tonight. C9.25, 2.5x Powermate.

The Moon tonight 9th Jan 2011

11 image mosaic, Skynyx 2-0M, IR filter, C9.25 @ prime focus.

Dark sky site.

We went out to a dark sky site tonight with camera and tripod. And took a few snaps.
It was by the Ramsbury Ale shed just outside Ramsbury.
51.45858,-1.654708
(The Moon pic below was taken earlier back home)

All the shots below are single 20 or 30sec exposures. Excuse the power cables.

Santa Maria crater : Opportunity Navigation & Pan Camera Sol 2467

Pan camera. (false background)

Credit JPL for original images.

Happy New Year for 2011

Santa Maria in colour.

Detail from the edge of Santa Maria.

This crater is looking interesting!

A new angle to our solar system :) on Twitpic

A new angle to our solar system :) on Twitpic

New HDR sharpening techinique

Well new to me.
I tried it out on an old mosaic that I took of Clavius last year, about this time!

TipSquirrel.com

Inside Santa Maria - Navigation Camera :: Sol 2452

Snowflakes are dancing.

Opportunity at Santa Maria crater Sol 2450

Pec Pads

These are bloody brilliant. I bought them from Amazon.uk the other day. I've been having a few problems cleaning my Skynyx camera recently using cotton buds, they always leave dust bunnies behind. I found these on a camera cleaning site and they work an absolute treat.

Slowly does it.

Venus - 12th Dec 2010

The Moon 9th Dec 2010

Venus 9th Dec 2010

All iced up now!

Orion tonight.

12 x 10 second frames @1600ISO, zoom lens set at 18mm.

Falcon 9 launches Dragon spaceship

FOV calculator

This is nice, I've seen other versions that you can download, but this is a website. It has loads of scopes and cameras for both visual and imaging. Neat!

FOV Calculator

Cassini - back online.

Nice to see images from Cassini again.

N00165288.jpg was taken on November 30, 2010 and received on Earth December 01, 2010. The camera was pointing toward ENCELADUS at approximately 88,882 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

My first telescope.

I've been cleaning up my old scope for one of my grandchildren to use. It's a 3" reflector of unknown make (label fell of years ago).
It's a bit bashed about but it still works.
He-he, I say my first scope, I've only ever owned three, and two of them I bought within the last 5 years.
Here is the first image that I took with it at the start of this blog, before I got my main scope that I use now.
Not bad for a scope that is nearly 50 years old!

Casting giant shadows - LRO.

The eastern inner wall of the farside crater Moore F.

Credit [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].
The original TIFF file was 330Mb!
Idea from LPOD.

Phobos - another one of those sc-fi pictures.

Phobos over Mars' limb.
Credit: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

M81 & M82 re-processed from March 2010.

M45 again, more subs.

Took 3hours to process this. 391 images totalling 3hours 39mins @1600ISO, flats, darks and bias applied.
There is more and more detail being dragged out from my street lamp soaked skies.

Always nice to get published in Astronomy Now magazine.

Astronomy Now magazine.

Damp astronomy.

As you can see... rubbish seeing as well.