Crab Nebula in H-Alpha 5 stacked images 600s exposures each, slightly noise reduced.
Read more "M1 – Crab Nebula"This week on Wednesday was the penultimate (but my last) observatory session and it was by far the best one. I got there a bit early to these views: There were only a few of us there, and about 6.15 PM Theo asked if we wanted to see Mars and Venus. I’d never seen either […]
Read more "Penultimate Observatory Session"Next on the robotic telescope list of objects to target is Messier 82. This one is particularly special as this is where the supernova was discovered by Steve Fossey and his students at the ULO observatory. Here is the observing plan: I am yet to download all of these images. I have managed to download […]
Read more "M82"Next Target on the robotic telescope list is the Beehive Cluster. This one went awry. Too long an exposure. Although some of the images turned out ok.
Read more "M44 Beehive Cluster"My next target object on the robotic telescope is the Horsehead Nebula. Here is the observing plan: I’ve noise reduced it, however with my lack of success in processing I have left it at that. One of the Baker Street Irregulars, Jaspal Chadha (check out his website, his images are great) had a go at noise reducing and […]
Read more "The Horsehead Nebula"I scheduled my first robotic telescope job to target the M101 Pinwheel Galaxy. Below are the details of my observing plan I managed to noise reduce the image in FITS Liberator so it looks like this: I failed massively in my attempts to process the image and stack the RGB frames to produce a colour […]
Read more "M101"Nick has told us that as members of UCL and the Astrophysics department we have access to the robotic telescope. I am very excited about scheduling my first job.
Read more "Robotic Telescope"For this blog post, ‘Hello World!’ is apt as I’m a complete novice! This blog will focus on my love for Astronomy. I’ve had a fascination with Astronomy since I was a child. Recently I decided to enrol on a part time evening Certificate in Astronomy at UCL. The structure of the course is a […]
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