The NFO made another appearance on tonight’s ITV Meridian News and Weather with Simon Parkin: Video clip Copyright Meridian TV
Now here’s a really annoying one you may have been putting up with for quite some time with no apparent solution. As you know on my super-duper-computer system I run 3 screens (one via an adapter which seems to create … Continue reading
I was in Bristol yesterday opening the Star Vistas Exhibition at the Photo Gallery on Baldwin Street. Just round the corner, up a flight of stone steps, is THE most amazing market I have been to in a very long … Continue reading
Just to remind you that the Star Vistas deep-sky images Exhibition opens at the Photo Gallery in Bristol tomorrow evening. I will give a PowerPoint presentation on the work carried out at the New Forest Observatory over the past 6 … Continue reading
Having put the filter-wheel together it is too heavy, big and bulky to piggyback with the Sky90 on the C11 🙁 I will wait to fit this to the Sky 90 when it is in the mini-WASP frame early next … Continue reading
I have just been looking at the equipment section of Steve Cannistra’s web site. This section has proven so useful to me over the years (thank you very much Steve!!) that I thought I would give a “running commentary” on … Continue reading
I mentioned a while back that I would be posting details of an AstroFest event to be held in Tenerife in March 2011. It looks like this is going to be a truly superb event – hope to see you … Continue reading
Another clear Moonless sky tonight so I’m taking a second data set of the Soul nebula. I did intend imaging the comet – but as it wasn’t clearly visible through the finder scope I have decided not to bother with … Continue reading
Great day today – met one of my literary heroes 🙂 Went up to London with my son Adam and met up with an old school mate Dick Jude – who actually used to run the Forbidden Planet book shop. … Continue reading
Nice clear Moonless night last night – up until midnight that is when in rolled the high cloud and imaging ended. Got just over 3 hours on the Soul nebula IC1848 in Cassiopeia. Looking at the data I probably need … Continue reading
