This week’s Zoom In/Zoom Out image features the Markarian Chain region.
A composite of 3 datasets taken of the Markarian Chain region.
For the next few weeks all the images will be astronomical Zoom In/Zoom Out images, where both Zoom In and Zoom Out are both high resolution as they were taken either at different focal lengths, or the Zoom Out is a mosaic.
This week we feature a Zoom In and Zoom out on the Rosette Nebula.
This week we feature a composite Arcturus image taken with the 200mm lenses and the 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras in April 2025 and April 2026.
The 2 datasets are 24 x 5-minute subs (2025) and 18 x 250-second subs (19/04/2026).
The background is glassy smooth with 42 subs.
I reprocessed all the recent 200mm lens data on this one and then cropped down to centre Arcturus whilst including Napoleon’s Hat (below-right of Arcturus).
We are in for a few weeks of astronomy images. This is a zoom in/zoom out image of NGC6914, a reflection nebula in Cygnus and the only bit of blue in a sea of red as I call it.
The zoomed-in image was taken by a tiny little H9C OSC CCD on an original Hyperstar on the C11, and the zoomed-out image was taken using the Sky90 array with the M26C OSC CCDs.
Imaging the M44 (Beehive Cluster) with the 200mm lenses I came across this arachnid that had spun it’s web across the innermost stars of Cancer, perhaps hoping to catch some Bees.
I used all the Sky90 data and added to it the core data I took on the original Hyperstar with the little H9C OSC CCD. There was a noticeable improvement.
I just reprocessed the Corona Borealis 3-framer taken with the 200mm lenses and 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras.
This data was collected in June 2024 under astronomical twilight.
Another high-speed-flash image taken at 1/100,000th of a second (10-microseconds). This is another double water-drop collision taking place under a soap bubble covering a drinking glass. The 10-microsecond light pulse (150-Joules in energy) was taken using 3 Xenon flashguns developed by me over a number of years. Experts in the field might say that you can’t create a 10-microsecond pulse of light using Xenon due to afterglow effects – but you can using a special technique.
