Monthly Archives: July 2009

Object in Cygnus II

Against all expectations it was sufficiently clear last night (a few banks of cloud passed over) to get some imaging done and see whether the “object” was real – or an artefact.  Result – a very comet-like lens flare 🙁  … Continue reading

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Object in Cygnus

I was doing some ultra wide field imaging last night in the region of Deneb and picked up a bright diffuse object mid way between the Pelican’s head and Deneb.  Has anybody seen any reference to this mentioned anywhere??  I … Continue reading

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Meridian News feature 16th July 2009 – Apollo Moon landing

And here is a short clip from last night’s ITV Meridian News programme:

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New Forest Observatory features on ITV Meridian News 29/05/09

Here is a clip from the ITV Meridian feature from May 2009:

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Meridian News

The footage taken at the New Forest Observatory actually went out on tonight’s Meridian News.  Apologies for the duff information given below.  My piece was preceeded by Sir Patrick – I didn’t know my book (Star Vistas) Foreword author was going … Continue reading

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Water-filled balloon – very high speed flash photography

Well the nights are getting longer again, so hopefully this will be the last non-deep-sky image for a while 🙂  I took the “Ultra” units up to a photographic studio in Oxford today and we had some fun popping water-filled … Continue reading

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New Forest Observatory to appear on Meridian News

As part of the 40th Anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon, Meridian News will be presenting a number of short features during next week.  It is expected that some filming carried out at the New Forest Observatory … Continue reading

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Eggs – scrambled

And to finish off yesterday’s theme I just had to try to capture the action when a 0.22″ air rifle pellet says hello to a raw egg – or two. Note the pellet exiting stage left in the first image!

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From ultra-long exposures to ultra high-speed flash photography

From one extreme to the other 🙂  Some of my longest total exposure times in astrophotography exceed 60 hours!!  At the other end of the scale I also carry out high-speed photography using flash equipment that kicks out 9 microsecond … Continue reading

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IOM July 2009 – globular cluster M71 in Sagitta

This Month’s imaging object is a rather beautiful globular cluster in the constellation Sagitta – M71.  The nice bright star towards the top left in the image below is Gamma Sagitta, and M71 lies mid way between Gamma and Delta … Continue reading

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