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Bill Almond
Bill Almond has been working with CCD imaging since the early
1990's and has been published in CCD Magazine with images
of M27 The Dumbell Nebula and M8 The Lagoon Nebula.
All images are Copyright
Bill Almond
M42,
Orion Nebula - 2006
Earlier this year I took this image of M42 with the
Centre's Takahashi and Meade's ill-starred Deep Space Imager, then
promptly forgot about it until recently. The Tak's drive was not working
properly so I simply hoped for the best. After rediscovering the image I
played around with it in PixInsight LE and it began to look fairly good
but nothing to write home about. |
Comet Temple is cruising along, completely unaware that it's
heading for a smashup with [a] NASA [probe] on July 4, [2005]. Here's an
image I took on May 27, [2005]. It's not a very interesting comet and
doesn't show a bright tail, but I would have been thrilled to catch the
bright flash (with the DSI camera set on sub-second integrations) when the
probe impacts it and vaporizes itself in order to carve a hole in the
comet. However, Starry Night tells me it sets at this latitude at 1 a.m.
on that date, so whether or not it will be possible to catch it is very
iffy given the trees and high hills that stand in the way. Now if only I
lived in Arizona, next door to Jack!
[Image taken with a Meade 12"
LX-200 using a Meade DSI imager.] |
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All images below were taken with a 10-inch f/10 Meade SC working
at f/6.3. Imager: SBIG ST6 CCD. Images processed with Photoshop:
RGB True colour, Image size: 254 K. Guider: SBIG ST4 CCD mounted
piggyback on the 10-inch in a Celestron C90. |
M17 Swan Nebula, diff. neb.
in Sagittarius
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M16, Eagle Nebula, diff. neb.
in Serpens |
M27, Dumb-bell Nebula, large
planetary in Vulpecula |
M33, Pinwheel Galaxy, large
spiral, member of Local Group, in Triangulum
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M22, beautiful large globular
cluster in Sagittarius |
M20,Trifid nebula,
bright diff. neb. in Sagittarius version
processed in LAB format |
M31, great spiral galaxy in
Andromeda, finest of the Local Group of galaxies. |
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