My old 2-monitor system (the one running XP with a graphics card that can drive 2 monitors) was playing up giving all sorts of odd (intermittent) effects including switching monitor 2 for monitor 1 and losing the desktop. The card … Continue reading
By Apostolos Doxiadis – is a work of complete and utter brilliance, I would say genius – and a book that joins that elite (and very small) group of mine, the books that have been read in just one sitting. If you … Continue reading
It was Professor Peter Landsberg’s funeral today at the East Chapel at Southampton Crematorium. Standing room only – Peter had a great number of friends. He will be sadly missed – there is nobody at the University that can take … Continue reading
Noel has just completed processing the 5 & 10-minute subs (probably around 8 hours worth in total) taken on the Hyperstar III of the Beehive Cluster – M44 – in the constellation Cancer. At this time of the year we … Continue reading
Here is a fish eye view of my three-screen system up and running. Three superb Iiyama 24″ letterbox screens driven by an ATI Radeon 5770 card and one screen with a Sapphire (active) display port adapter from Overclockers U.K. I … Continue reading
Simon Parkin gave tonight’s Meridian Weather forecast and the introductory picture was the Beehive cluster (M44) in Cancer which is now in a great position for imaging. I recently took several hours data on this one using both 5 and … Continue reading
I now have 3 screens running on a Windows 7 system 🙂 In the end I got all the bits necessary to build up a complete new (Windows 7) system around the new motherboard. So the new system has the … Continue reading
Another clear night last night – and with the success of capturing a couple of asteroids the night before (1079 Mimosa and 2833 Radishchev I think, courtesy the Sky 6) – I went back to M44 and asteroid central once … Continue reading
Nice clear night last night and managed to get 3-hours worth of 4-minute subs on M44 with the Hyperstar III. Bagged a couple of asteroids (I think M44 is asteroid central as it sits just about on top of the … Continue reading
