25 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Messier 2

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

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22 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

M31 – Bradford Robotic Telescope

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 [...]

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12 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Totally Dewed Out!

I finally got around to sorting out the Moonlight focuser I attempted to fit to my 12″ reflector many, many moons a go and get the collimation sorted so I could start using the scope again this Sunday just gone. It was fairly straight forward in the end, and I even got to play around [...]

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08 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Messier 27

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 [...]

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