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IISAC2009 Only a Few Days Away
On Thursday I head to IISAC2009 – the IceInSpace AstroCamp for 2009. I’ve been busy with the final stages of organising the event, and I’ll be glad when it’s over for another year. I’ve bought the soft drinks, water, ice blocks and other consumables and cleaning stuff (and 120 rolls of toilet paper). All the [...]
Registrations Now Open for IISAC2009!
The IISAC2009 star party is now accepting registrations. The event starts on Thursday, 15th October and goes for 3 nights. It’s a great opportunity to meet up and observe with like-minded amateur astronomers and make a lot of new friends. Whether you’re an experienced amateur astronomer, or someone with a new interest in looking at [...]
From the Vault: Comet McNaught C/2006 P1
Hi all From the Vault is a new idea for my site, where once a week i’ll feature an old image and bring it back to life here and give some background and information on capturing and processing the image(s). I’ll mainly concentrate on images taken over the past few years, before my site was [...]
Thoughts and Feelings after IISAC2008
Well now i’ve got a bit of time to organise my thoughts a bit more after winding down from IISAC2008.. Where to start!? It was a lot of fun.. In my opinion, star parties should be first and foremost about fun – about meeting likeminded people, about socialising, about making new friends, and reacquanting with [...]
Raining Stars at Lostock
In the 2 hours of clear skies on Thursday night at IISAC2008 while my main scope and camera was capturing the Horsehead and Flame Nebula, I setup my 350D with the Sigma 17-70mm lens on a tripod to capture some star trails. I used the Aputure Timer Remote to program exposures of 5 minutes with [...]
The Horsehead and Flame Nebula from IISAC2008!
Well I’m back from IISAC2008, a little tired, a little sunburnt, a little disappointed (with the weather) but a lot relieved. Another year down, but planning for IISAC2009 has begun already! We had pretty ordinary weather.. it couldn’t have been much worse, though if it was raining during the day that would be classified as [...]
The Milky Way at Lostock
This is another image taken during the Saturday night site reconnaissance for IISAC2008 on the 27th September 2008. It’s 11 x 6 min exposures, ISO800 with the Canon 350D + Sigma 17-70mm @ 17mm. Piggybacked on the EQ6/ED80 combo, guided with a DMK21AU04. Dark subtracted, no flats. Conditions were nice and dark with good transparency, but it [...]
Southern Star Trails at Lostock
Hi again. My family and I went for a trip up to Lostock on Saturday, 27th September 2008, for some site reconnaissance a month out from IISAC2008. The sky was lovely and dark as I remembered, however there was a strong stiff wind blowing and the seeing was terrible, but it didn’t stop me doing some [...]
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My name is Mike Salway and I'm an amateur astronomer and photographer. I'm the co-founder of IceInSpace, and this is my personal blog site and image gallery.
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