August has not been a kind month
I know August isn’t the best month for Astrophotography from my latitude (52deg North). No full dark for most of July and August but having a near permanent cloud deck
Nik Looker (BSc, PhD, MIET) – Former academic, daytime software engineer, full time astronomy nut
I know August isn’t the best month for Astrophotography from my latitude (52deg North). No full dark for most of July and August but having a near permanent cloud deck
I’m now losing count of the weeks since I’ve managed to get my scope out (Well actually I took this image on 21st July). Albireo. About 20 x 60s stacked
So I’m trying out a new setup on NGC6960. I was going to try my Sigma 200mm lens with my Canon 1300D with my reborn Skywatcher EQ3-2 Pro. This would
So it’s been cloudy basically for the last few weeks and now it’s full moon and summer solstice, so I thought I’d take what I have of NGC6960 and see
Finally the weather has changed and there are a few reasonable nights ahead to start my summer project. Last night was a bit truncated with cloud starting to come in
Well I was hopeful tonight that the clouds would part and I’d finally be able to try out my scope in the new garden. I have to say that I
The house move is (more or less complete) or to put it another way our new house is full of boxes. I was sorely tempted to try and setup my
A nice clear, dark, moonless (well until about 4-30am) night last night. Came as bit of a surprise since I hadn’t been keeping an eye on the weather recently since
Way back on the 3rd February I had a go at imaging the Rosette Nebula and I’ve finally gotten round to processing the data.
So three(ish) nights of fairly clear skies with fairly good seeing finally. Pity the moon was waxing but we can’t have everything. So I had quite a lot of light