exploits and adventures in astronomy from rural Bedfordshire
So, this will be a bit backward – this is a short time-lapse from the conjunction this morning, and a later post will have images from the Lunar Eclipse! I just haven’t had a chance to process the (poor) efforts from the eclipse yet! Anyway, this is my first attempt at a time-lapse. And I...
"Conjunction from 8th Oct 2015"Continue reading
My readers (OK, reader…) will remember back in July I had a list of things to get done in the Observatory ready for the new season… Well, I had made some progress, but not enough – so this last weekend (26th Sept), I finally got round to re-doing the felting on the warm room section...
"Observatory work continues…"Continue reading
I took some images for the Lunar Eclipse on the 28th Sept, but have not had a chance to finish processing them yet. I’m not super-happy with them as my polar alignment was not great, and I didn’t enable the MLU in the camera. As a consequence, there are some frames with blur and motion...
"Lunar image – 30th Sept 2015"Continue reading
Last night was clear so I was able to redo the polar alignment with PHD2. This time I’d read the instructions and I think I have got as good an alignment as I am going to… The graphs (which I forgot to take snapshots of) were pretty flat with virtually no movement…. So, I started...
"Polar alignment progress…"Continue reading
Back down in sunny Dorset for a couple of days (and actually, it was beautifully sunny!) and I remembered to bring my Canon DSLR with me. So I whizzed down to Portland Bill just in time for the sunset…. Just made it! And the little band of cloud made a nice atmospheric picture! Then, after...
"A couple of quick away-from-home images"Continue reading