Here are some images which were captured using the Faulkes Telescope North at the Going Nova Science Festival which was held at Horizon Scotland at the Business Park in Forres in the north of Scotland. The event ran from Thursday 10th November 2005 until Saturday 12th November.
During the Festival, the telescope was under the control of members of  the north of Scotland's two mainland astronomy clubs.
SIGMA, Moray's Astronomy Club and  Highlands Astronomical Society.

At the end of the exposure of each object, the Faulkes telescope web site send a raw jpeg image to the group in control. Higher quality FITS files of each exposure are available shortly after the end of each observing session but these files must be converted to TIFF or jpeg files before they can be viewed. We used ds9, AVIS and FITS Liberator to do the converting. The processing was done using "The GIMP" and Adobe Photoshop. Information about these software packages can be found on the Faulkes Telescope web site, a link is shown near the top of this page, don't forget to come back to us!

Coloured images are built up by making exposures of the same length of time through red, green and blue filters in turn.
For nebulae, we sometimes made exposures through narrow-band hydrogen alpha (H-alpha) and Oxygen III (OIII) filters.

Shown below, are the thumbnails of the raw jpeg's of each object imaged.
Note the vertical streak in some of the thumbnails, you should have seen the worst ones!!

Click on the objects designation to see the processed images.
Remember, this is a huge undertaking with a number of people working in their spare time to process the images.
If clicking on a designation does not open a new page it is because we haven't quite got round to that one yet, but we will!!

Messier Objects	NGC Galaxies	Other NGC Objects
M1, the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant in Taurus. M74, the Phantom, a spiral galaxy in Pisces. M76, the Little Dumbbell, a planetary nebula in Perseus. M95, a barred spiral galaxy in Leo M97, the Owl  Nebula, a planetary nebula in Ursa Major.	NGC891, edge-on spiral galaxy in Andromeda. NGC925, spiral galaxy in Triangulum. NGC1232, face-on spiral galaxy in Eridanus. NGC1300, barred spiral galaxy in Eridanus. NGC1637, spiral galaxy in Eridanus. NGC2403, face-on spiral galaxy in Camelopardalis. NGC2903, spiral galaxy in Leo.	NGC1267, the cenral galaxy in a cluster of galaxies in Perseus. NGC2266, a dense open cluster of 35 stars in Gemini. NGC2371, a planetary nebula in Gemini. NGC2392, the Eskimo Nebula, a planetary nebula in Gemini. NGC2419, a globular cluster in Lynx. NGC2535, a spiral galaxy with its companion, NGC2536, in Cancer.