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	<description>Amateur astrophotography with a Canon 1000D</description>
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		<title>Winter Galaxy Pairs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring certainly seems to be on us here as of the last few days, and by that I mean it&#8217;s finally raining. However it does mean I am left reflecting on a rather unproductive start to the year with few updates to the site and few new images to show for my time. I did however try to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2012/04/11/winter-galaxy-pairs/</link>
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		<title>The CGEM is Fixed!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fixed! All my thanks for this to Bob, my friend and colleague from Basingstoke AS for supplying his time, tools and expertise  to the problem. This turned out to a be a failed MOSFET on the MC Board (component marked Q2 &#8211; Fairchild FDS8449 MOSFET). A trip to a Bob&#8217;s, who had the knowledge and required tools to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2012/02/06/the-cgem-is-fixed/</link>
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		<title>MY CGEM Has failed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was out having a mildly successful evening on Monday night, freezing cold but dark and clear, imaging the Witches Head nebula when all of a sudden my laptop reported a lost connection with the camera and the guiding failed as it lost contact with the mount. Not a good sign. Out in the shed it quickly became [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2012/01/20/my-cgem-has-failed/</link>
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		<title>Heart Nebula &#8211; Reprocessing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That was quicker than expected, I normally leave it for a week or two before starting all over again but this data is actually alright and I wanted to spend more time playing with Normalization and DBE tools. Anyway, some results, first an attempt to remove the stars as much as possible using star masks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2011/12/23/heart-nebula-reprocessing/</link>
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		<title>The Heart Nebula IC1805</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been on my target list for quite a while now, and is a favorite imaging target along with it&#8217;s partner the Soul Nebula. I have picked up both previously in my widefield image of Cassiopeia and finally got round to doing the heart justice on a couple of evenings in between the clouds last week. Ideally I would like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2011/12/22/the-heart-nebula-ic1805/</link>
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		<title>Reprocessed Cave and Cocoon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty happy with these, I sat down last night intending to play Skyrim and instead and instead spent and hour or two playing around with the new MultiscaleMedianTransform and HDRMultiscaleTransform tools in Pixinsight. I based my approach off of the short tutorial on the Pixinsight forums. First off the Cocoon. I&#8217;m finally happy with this image, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2011/12/14/reprocessed-cave-and-cocoon/</link>
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		<title>Winter Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right, time to get back on with this and catch up on the last three months of work, though the past six weeks have not seen anything new due to a leg injury which the GP diagnosed as a bad sprain, and the specialist (with the aid of an x-ray) diagnosed as a fractured fibula, but only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2011/12/07/winter-update/</link>
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		<title>Not Forgotten</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not forgotten this, really! It&#8217;s just been a bit busy of late and the blog has been left on the wayside. I&#8217;ll update this weekend with all the recent images, there have been a few.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2011/11/25/not-forgotten/</link>
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		<title>Reprocessing (I have nothing better to be doing)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The wife&#8217;s television schedule is causing more time hiding in the office than normal of late, and Fallout New Vegas can&#8217;t hold all of my attention, so instead I&#8217;ve been spending a bit of time browsing the Pixinsight forums looking into some alternative methods of imaging processing. Mainly of interest to me was the very excellent Masked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2011/09/22/reprocessing-i-have-nothing-better-to-be-doing/</link>
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		<title>The Elephants Trunk Nebula</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bit of sneaky in between the clouds work netted me a few hours over the weekend of reasonably clear viewing, and a good chance to test that everything was working after the trip down to France and back. As it turns out the only thing to have given up is the PC in the shed, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2011/09/06/the-elephants-trunk-nebula/</link>
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