[rogerg (Roger)]

G'day all,

I've been continuing to make progress with photographing all the NGC objects visible from my location. I haven't been finding the time to prepare any for display on the web or transfer to fellow astronomers who have requested them, so no actual photographs right now (hopefully some day soon). But I do have an updated scatter graph showing the coverage I have so far. I have 747 photographed now. I've photographed more, but cull about 5 out of about 60 taken each night due to various factors.

It's become quite easy to run the project. The other night I was trying to get TPoint working and doing some long exposure shots of a cluster of galaxies, 10 minute exposures. The exposures were turning out perfect but scripting of it just wasn't working because of my tiny guide chip. So I took the slack option of going back to photographing NGC objects and was up and going in 15 minutes flat. Very nice.

It's good fun, and nearing almost 1/4 the way through observable NGC objects from my location, completion is looking quite achievable now.

Soon I'll have to start thinking up a new project to keep myself busy Oh wait, I could just take normal astro photo's... no, surely not..

The attached graph shows distribution of objects across RA & Dec. Earlier in the project I was taking images across the full Dec range each night, where as now I work from south to north. So that's why the graph is shaped as it is, wider patch (more even distribution) where I started, and more dense narrow distribution where I'm currently progressing through.





Roger.