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Orion’s Sword Mosaic

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Administrator

After having a good deal of success with my last mosaic, M31, I thought I’d give a go at a winter time favorite M42. I’ve been working on my mosaic software, Mosaic Engine, and was stuck in the city as … Continue reading →

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More Mosaic Fun

Posted on December 9, 2018 by Administrator

After having success with my NGC7000 mosaic I found some time to get out to the RASC, Halifax Centre’s dark sky observatory to capture the last frame of my second 3 by 3 effort on the Andromeda Galaxy. One of … Continue reading →

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NGC 7000 Mosaic Part Two

Posted on August 28, 2018 by Administrator

With summer vacation at hand my family and I headed to our cottage and some dark skies. Having some decent skies and a few clear nights I got out to take the last row of my North American Nebula mosaic. … Continue reading →

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NGC 7000

Posted on August 28, 2018 by Administrator

NGC7000 has always been a favorite target of mine and I’ve imaged it and the Pelican several times. I’ve got widefield images and telescopic shots but I’ve always wanted to take a telescopic shot of the whole North American and … Continue reading →

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Urban Imaging

Posted on May 20, 2018 by Administrator

Schedule doesn’t always allow for a trip to dark skies so sometimes we just have to make due with urban imaging from the driveway. Here is a daylight view of my urban imaging environment. Like a lot of urban sites … Continue reading →

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Reprocessing the Helix

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Administrator

  During the dark sky imaging window in October, 2017 I made it out to capture some data on the Helix. Like most of my images it needs more exposure but I played around with processing it anyway. With the … Continue reading →

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M96 and Friends

Posted on March 25, 2018 by Administrator

It has been a while since I was able to get out to my favorite dark sky site, the St. Croix Observatory. SCO is the club observatory of the Halifax Centre of the RASC and is a fantastic facility under … Continue reading →

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Sirius B – The Hunt Continues

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Administrator

After getting proper calibration frames the night before I was able to measure the scale in my images which ended up being 0.315 arc-seconds/pixel. Armed with this and a good image of Rigel which has similar separation to Sirius A … Continue reading →

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My Hunt for Sirius B

Posted on February 18, 2018 by Administrator

Imaging Sirius B has been on my astrophotographical bucket list for some time now. Several years ago I tried with an old Meade SN8, but the scope had some optical issues and although it was a reasonable wide field imaging … Continue reading →

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NGC 891

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Administrator

A fellow astro-imager and I decided to head out to the club observatory for a little photon capturing. As the Sun set we got to work setting up our gear. For a change, the conditions  were near perfect – clear skies, … Continue reading →

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