Monthly Archives: February 2009

Comet Lulin

Got my first view of comet Lulin tonight.  Nothing special in binoculars, but looking quite nice with 3-minute subs on the Hyperstar.  Will have to see what I managed to catch tomorrow 🙂

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Sir Patrick Moore receives his copy of Star Vistas

My son Adam Parker recently graduated with a degree in Journalism and has been writing articles for local newspaper, the Lyminton Times.  In today’s edition there is an example of his work where he describes our recent visit to Sir … Continue reading

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Sir Patrick Moore receives his personal copy of Star Vistas

On 10th February 2009 Greg Parker, Adam Parker & Noel Carboni visited Sir Patrick at Farthings to present him with a joint-author signed copy of Star Vistas.  Sir Patrick was in fine form and gave us the keys to his observatories … Continue reading

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AstroFest 2009 February 7th book-signing

Noel Carboni flew in from Florida on February 6th to attend the Springer book-signing session on the 7th.  All went well even though the Circle line wasn’t running that day as a last desperate act of sabotage.  Plenty of UKAI … Continue reading

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EPOD for 10th February 2009 – variable star near NGC7789

Good news yet again!!  We got yesterday’s Earth Science Picture of the Day [EPOD] with that amazing variable star lying right next to open cluster NGC7789 in Cassiopeia.  Thank you once again Jim for publishing our work 🙂

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February 7th 2009 – AstroFest day :)

Well – Noel & I eventually made it to AstroFest even though London Transport did its level best to halt our progress by closing down the Circle line today – THANK YOU VERY MUCH for nothing!  Anyway, great to see … Continue reading

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Star Vistas is in the U.K.

Just heard from Springer that the consignment of Star Vistas books has arrived safely in the U.K.  So it’s all systems go for this coming Saturday.  As I write this Noel is in the air with an ETA of 11:00 … Continue reading

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Why aren’t there any green stars?

An eagle-eyed viewer noticed that there were apparently no green stars in the deep-sky images and she wondered why this should be. Not a particularly easy question to answer, but it is a combination of the characteristics of black-body radiation … Continue reading

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Star Vistas book-signing – the final countdown!

Noel will arrive in the U.K. this Friday 6th February and we’ll both be up at AstroFest on the Saturday to sign copies of Star Vistas.  Remember this is a unique opportunity to obtain your First Edition copy of Star … Continue reading

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IOM February 2009: The Belt and Horsehead region of Orion

February is the latest month I can still image the Orion region, and Orion’s Belt is very well-placed due South for me during February.  The Belt region is full of faint emission and reflection nebulosity that favours dark skies and … Continue reading

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