Have Kurt and our Sponsor George Roberts gone 'Loopy' ? (Rhetorical)

 

The Cygnus Loop. Seestar S30 hybrid mosaic. Seestar in EQ mode, LP filter and 3.5 hours of 1 minute exposures in mosaic mode. Image Credit Kurt Thrust and Pip Stakkert. 

"Last night and early this morning were ideal for astro-imaging at the Jodrell Plank Observatory. 

As the weather forecasts for Lowestoft were predicting an extended period of cloud free skies over Suffolk, Kurt and George after some discussion, decided to use the Seestar S30 in EQ mode to image the entirety of the Cygnus Loop, using the little smartscope's firmware to create a mosaic of images as part of the capture process. 

The Moon didn't rise until quite early in the morning, so light pollution, which had plagued earlier attempts to image the Loop, was not a problem.

Unfortunately, minor mechanical or digital problems occurred, which meant the 'Eastern Veil' had to be added after the mosaic had been created and in post processing using the venerable but still excellent Registar software. 'Hats off ' to Olly Penrice who recommended purchasing this remarkable software to George many years ago.

Any how and irrespective of the processing route taken, the JPO Team were quite pleased with the end result"! - Joel Cairo CEO of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.

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