Hi All, I've been wanting to improve on M42 since it went down last year - I can't see I'll ever get bored of this target! This is a combination of data from 6...
Hello and thanks for the comments, I experimented with various settings and exposures using a Nikon D700 until I settled on about 5 minute exposures. Having...
Good Picture. - congratulations - Stephen Any technical details available - this seems to have come out brighter than the 4 meteors I captured last night ...
Have ordered a pier and carry bag, am going to adapt it to be used with a Vixen GPE as a portable tracking mount for visual and occasional photographic...
I am seriously considering buying the pier as portable support for a Vixen GPE or GPD2, the 3/8" centre hole should be easy to adapt to a 10 mm bolt. I won't...
... Iain, I went to AstroTrac's Bristol factory in early April and saw one of these piers myself. It's worth saying that at it was a pre-production model, but...
Anyone seen this yet? Any thoughts - apart from the obviously huge price tag, that is? http://www.astrotrac.com/Default.aspx?p=pier As someone lucky enough to...
Sorry Iain, brain fade on my part. Thanks for the offer Dave, I'm busy that weekend as it happens (our AGM, not to be missed) but I think I would like to have...
join the club except mine has not been much in this country. In the last 8 weeks I have been in Qatar, Canada, US, Poland, Germany and Italy :-( Good thing it...
Hi Owen, Currently working on May, June/July and August issues for Look Up! as well as 2nd issue of AstroSouth, all being released in the next week. Sorry, my...
Bill, We have some spare places with HantsAstro (we booked six, but several members have done their own thing) anyway there's over 100 people going this year,...
Hi Bill It's Iain actually but in the context of imaging I will take that as a compliment ;) Here's some details of the salisbury star party, probably too late...
Not bad - almost as much as you can see visually :-) As for Salisbury I am down to go but I am getting steadily more worried by the people that seem to be...
Hello Bill, Lucy, Steven et al I've reprocessed this using a different technique. http://www.mrmelville.co.uk/targets/M27.html Anyone else here (apart from the...