April
April 30th, 2009
This is not the month for astronomy, why the weather men ever put anything up that isn’t ‘It’s April, what do you want?’ is beyond me. I’ve not done any new imaging or observing as when I have expected clear skies the clouds have rolled in the minute I get the shed roof off, or I’ve been convinced to get settled in in front of the TV with my wife and a glass of wine and it’s turned into a crystal clear night.
I have however not been entirely idle. I’m currently constructing a light box for the scope, it’s going reasonably well but I ran out of glue for the hot glue gun last night so it’s on hold for now. I’m following a selection of plans available on the net and the idea is that it will just slot in over the top of the scope.
I should have it finished for the weekend so we’ll see how well it performs then.
I’ve been looking a bit more into image processing and I cannot believe how blue my colour image is, really, my eyes must have been tired as I didn’t spot that at all. I need to go back to that and start again, being a little more careful to achieve a proper back ground black level. I know I’ve got a great amount of detail in that image but pulling it out is the real challenge.
I’m hoping the skies will clear for the weekend as it’s the first in a long time where I have nothing else I should be doing, but well, it’s April.
