Here is a very colourful harvest moon taken on 10th September 2014. I took it on a tripod with my Canon 550d on a 300mm lens.
Edward Emerson Barnard’s A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way was originally published in two volumes in 1927. These two volumes contained a great deal of information including photographic plates of the most interesting portions of the milky way, descriptions, charts and data. At the time only 700 copies were ever printed,
Well that was a short life for Vista on my observatory PC. I only upgraded from Windows XP Pro to Vista Business in January, but I wanted to add an SSD (Solid State Drive) to my observatory PC to speed things up, so now was a good time to install Windows 7 Professional. Why Professional?
If anyone missed the talks that Mick and I gave at the Cambridge Astronomical Association on 16th July 2014, then you can download them in PDF format below: Webcam and Lunar Imaging Talk Solar Webcam Imaging Talk They cover the basics of webcam imaging and the webcams that I have used together with some tips
Scientific Astrophotography – How Amateurs Can Generate and Use Professional Imaging Data A chunky book in the Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy series at over 330 pages, as this is a serious subject of contributing to the science of astronomy. The book is split into three main sections. The first section takes you through your equipment
The book begins describing in detail what a colour CCD is and how it works. The next chapters then go through all the equipment you will need to undertake astronomical imaging. including mounts, telescopes, dew prevention, light boxes. The next chapters go into detail about planning your imaging sessions and getting your equipment setup. There
In this book from Springer part of the Patrick Moore series, Ted Aranda has chosen 3000 objects that he viewed over a number of years using his own homemade binocular telescope. The book contains a number of different objects including bright stars, double stars, variable stars, galaxies, globular clusters, nebulae, open clusters and planetary nebulae.
A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy book contains 250 astronomy questions and answers. This is a brilliant book if you want to get to the bare facts about astronomy and learn simply about the main topics you want to know. The book is divided into 10 sections, these are: Stars, The Solar System, The
This M81 image was actually taken in April 2013, just processed it in March 2014. Taken on my Altair Astro 8″ RC Telescope on an EQ6 mount. Used my Atik 314L+ CCD camera and took LRGB frames with exposures of 5 minutes each. The scope had a x0.67 reducer fitted. The focus could have been