Nick Hart, his equipment and his environment

Nick Hart does his astronomy from a light polluted site in Newport, South Wales.

Nick works with a variety of telescopes and cameras:

f/4.8, 10" Newtonian

 Atik 383L Monochrome Cooled camera with a starlight Express 2" motorised filter wheel

Nick works in a sturdy, home made observatory dome with an adjacent shed, control room:

Nick's speciality is doing deep sky imaging from an urban, light polluted site; showing what is possible under such conditions.

The source of the light pollution:

Results from this location:

RGB image using Astronomik filters

RGB image plus colour information from an Olll and a H-alpha filter

A bi-colour image just using luminance information from the Olll and H-alpha filters.