Although I am still imaging in inner space, at least the latest venture has an astro-imaging application. I have just purchased Noel Carboni’s Fractal Sharpening tool which works with Genuine Fractals (also purchased at the same time) and Adobe Photoshop. … Continue reading
O.K. so it’s not a deep-sky image as we are still suffering zero length evenings in June – but that doesn’t stop me capturing digital images of the wildlife surrounding the New Forest Observatory. This little guy was caught this … Continue reading
I have been playing around again with the microscope and Helicon Focus. Now although this is not deep-sky imaging, a lot of the data collection and data processing is very similar to deep-sky work. First of all you need to … Continue reading
Fred Clarke (Arthur C Clarke’s brother who lives in the S.W. of England) has two copies of Star Vistas destined to go into a new museum Fred is creating to house Sir Arthur C Clarke’s work. When Sir Arthur kindly … Continue reading
Within the last week there has been two large surges in sales of Star Vistas in the U.K. and one large surge in sales in the States. We are not sure what caused these sudden increases in sales (a review … Continue reading
It was while putting together my top 10 that I realised there had been a serious omission! I have not put up the definitive Horsehead and Belt region of Orion on the NFO site, although it had appeared way back … Continue reading
It was extremely difficult to pick a top 5 and a number of images were very close runners up. In places 6 to 10 I put the following:
With something approaching 200 images in the Parker/Carboni portfolio I am often asked – “what are your top 5 favourite images?” Well, after quite a bit of thought on this one, and for reasons that go beyond the impact of … Continue reading
Yesterday the New Forest Observatory web site reached a truly massive 80,000 hits! It is interesting to note the most popular landing page from peoples’ searches. Have you any idea what it might be? Could it be “images of deep-space”, Star Vistas, … Continue reading
We have recently seen a big kick in sales of Star Vistas in America which seems to be due to the appearance of a mini-review in the July issue of Sky and Telescope written by Sean Walker 🙂 Thank you … Continue reading
