Monthly Archives: May 2009

Stop Press!! Meridian News & Weather tonight!!!

The satellite van is in sunny Brockenhurst right now and there’ll be a live broadcast from the New Forest Observatory tonight on the local Meridian News.  We’re due to have a few days (and nights!) fine weather apparently, so I … Continue reading

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M78 and Barnard’s Loop in Orion

Noel continues to turn them out 🙂  This time he has collated all of our previous data and skilfully combined the lot to give this wide field panorama of the M78 region in Orion.  Noel has combined original Hyperstar RGB data … Continue reading

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M38 and NGC1907 region of Auriga imaged from the NFO.

Noel has just completed the digital image processing of this one taken on Friday 23rd January 2009 from the New Forest Observatory.  This is the nice open cluster M38 in Auriga with close-by smaller open cluster NGC1907.  Some red emission … Continue reading

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M106 and many other galaxies in Canes Venatici.

This image of M106 was acquired on Wednesday 1st April and Noel has recently processed it.  I love the Mother-of-Pearl appearance of M106, it makes it one of my favourite galaxies.  This region of Canes Venatici (lying below the handle of the Plough … Continue reading

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Radio Interview

Radio interview recorded in April 2009 A new local radio (webcast) station recently opened in Brockenhurst and Greg was invited along to talk about the New Forest Observatory.  You can listen to the interview here 🙂 [media id=5 width=320 height=240]

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Hyperstar III image of the Cone Nebula region in Monoceros

For regular visitors it will not have escaped your notice that there haven’t been many new images posted so far this year.  This is due to two factors.  One – Noel has been very busy with other programming jobs and … Continue reading

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Star Vistas – big boost in sales :)

There was a big surge in sales of Star Vistas in America just over a week ago, and over this weekend in Canada.  This corresponds to the release of the Star Vistas review in the American publication Sky & Telescope.  … Continue reading

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IOM May 2009: M13 the great globular cluster in Hercules

The Great Globular Cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules is pretty well known to all who scan the Northern Hemisphere skies.  It is probably the most beautiful globular cluster in the Northern Hemisphere both visually, and for imaging.  This is … Continue reading

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