The Sky at Night
June 7th, 2011
The quite months and general lack of astrophotography are continuing I’m sorry to say. I did get out to capture a couple of hours worth of data on M101 over the weekend, but as yet I don’t have a finished image to show. Mostly because I dropped the lamp I use to illuminate my white board which is used to take flats, and I keep forgetting to buy a new bulb when I go past a shop. I don’t expect anything great from that data though, it was a windy night and the scopes were getting blown around a bit. Maybe I should look into converting the shed to a turret design at some point.
There is some news though, I submitted some image to the BBC Sky at Night flickr group for the June edition of the show. The theme of the episode is ‘Cygnus the Swan’, so I offered up my Cygnus collection from this time last year, comprising of the North American nebula, the Cygnus Loop, the Crescent Nebula and finally the Gamma Cygni Butterfly.
I am proud to say that at least one of my images was included for inclusion in the show, though I missed Sunday nights edition so I don’t actually know which one the showed! I have Thursday’s extended edition set to record though so I’m looking forward to seeing something I did on the TV.
