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Messier 1 – The Crab Nebula

byard-sketches — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:25:21 +0000

Messier 2

byard-sketches — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:03:33 +0000

Continuing with my project to get images of every Messier object from the Bradford Robotic Telescope here’s M2:

M31 – Bradford Robotic Telescope

byard-sketches — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:04:03 +0000

Another of my job requests from the Bradford Robotic Telescope has been completed recently, this time of Messier 31 in Andromeda. As with the last image, I haven’t done any processing to it myself so it isn’t the most fantastically awesome picture in the world but hey, that’s what Hubble and amateur astronomers with money burning holes in their pockets is for!

Okay, so I downloaded a trial version of Adobe Photoshop CS4 to have a play about with things:

Messier 27

byard-sketches — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:54:11 +0000

I submitted a job request on the Bradford Robotic Telescope ages a go and happened to remember this afternoon to check to see if it had been completed – it had been!

Exposure time was 120000 ms, filter used was an OIII and I used the Galaxy Telescope. I didn’t do any processing myself because I have absolutely no idea how to, so the image was processed using a beta of a image generator the website provides.

I think it looks alright – but not as good as it does with my own two eyes

[edit - 22/11/09]

Ran this image through Photoshop:

My First Solar Image!

byard-sketches — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:57:05 +0000

Well, phone camera picture of a projected image of the Sun!

My First Solar Image