MickD

It was good to meet up with everyone & thanks to Tony for arranging. Shame about the weather, but we still had a good time. The very loud helicopter above our motorhome in the middle of the night was a bit of a surprise though. Hopefully whoever they were looking for was OK. Mick & Jill

Booked, Fri, Sat, Sun. Pitch 6. Will book pub when they decided to answer their phone....... Mick & Jill

Phoned Pencelli, on pitch 6

Thanks for the offer, but not a problem. I will phone them tomorrow and book another pitch. See you in October

I booked online & requested pitch 5. Did you book by phone? Maybe they didn't allocate pitch 5 to me.

That's interesting, I thought I had booked pitch 5 yesterday?

Have just booked, Arriving 13th, leaving 16th (have asked for pitch 5) Mick & Jill

Hi Tony & All, We still haven't found a motorhome so won't be staying at Pencelli, we plan to come and visit on Saturday (get the good coffee on Tony). Will come & have a chat. Mick & Jill.

Hi Tony, those dates look OK for us, however we still don't have a motorhome or caravan. We will have to see what we can find between now & then. Looking forward to meeting up. Mick & Jill

Hi Tony, we are not going to make it this year. Just moved this month, don't have the caravan anymore & haven't got a motor home yet... Will try and drive over for a visit if we can (only about an hour away). Mick & Jill

Have booked 31st March to 3rd April. See you there. Mick & Jill

Jill & I are planning on comming along in April, I may even bring a scope this time.....

Old favourite, imaged this a few times....but first time trying a mosaic in Pixinsight. Details are:- Two panes, LRGB mosaic. Each pane is:- Lum = 20 x 200sec Bin1 R, G, B = 8 x 120 sec Bin 2 Imaged in January with my Atik 383L + and a WO FLT98 scope. The moon was up when I captured one of the Blue channels (first attempt was ruined by cloud) and it made balancing the gradients a bit difficult (the right-hand side is a bit darker than the left). It was also a bit of a test to see how little colour data I could get away with. Mick

Small Propeller Nebula Another bit of Cygnus (this time pointing at the Propeller Nebula). Same setup as all the others I have posted recently:- Atik 383L, Samyang 135mm, Narrowband SHO process in Pixinsight. Probably going to move the CCD to my WO FLT 98 for the next images. so will post any new pics in "Deepsky Imaging" BR Mick

Cygnus Loop. Ha data was taken a couple of years ago with my Atik 383 and a canon 70 -200 F4 zoom (@ 135mm). The OIII & SII were taken recently with the same CCD but this time with my Samyang 135mm. Processed in Pixinsight as SHO (all channels were 5min subs and about 30ish images each). The OIII & SII were taken during a bright moon, but Pixinsight removed the gradients OK. Image is cropped a bit as the framing was different for the Ha. Mick