Monthly Archives: December 2010

The Matrix has landed at the New Forest Observatory!

Novatech came up to scratch with a new superb product – a 4-monitor support system that will take up to 24″ monitors – I have IIYAMA Prolite E2407HDS 24″ monitors, and as you can see on this video, the stand … Continue reading

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A starball and imaging frustration

As you will know we had a rare beautifully clear Moonless night last night – time for some serious imaging!  I had planned to grab IC1831, a ball of stars very close to the Heart nebula, quite some while back.  … Continue reading

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Imaging tonight!!

Well – it’s been a very long wait for a clear sky – but tonight in Brockenhurst I’ve struck lucky with the weather.  Absolutely freezing outside, but crystal clear dark (Moonless) sky outside and managed to get started imaging at … Continue reading

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Another 2nd December 2010 shot of the NFO in the snow

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Gamma Cass 4-framer – PTGui Pro

I just purchased a piece of stitching software – PTGui Pro – for putting together big mosaics (Gigapixel images) of terrestrial scenes.  It did a pretty good job of a snow-scene this morning (although the blending wasn’t too good) so … Continue reading

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The observatory is used as the return point in a race straight out of Ben Hur

Louey the black Labrador uses the observatory as the turn around point in his blistering circuit of the garden in this video.

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First snow of the year

First snow of the year here in Brockenhurst – even we didn’t get away with it this time (we quite often do).  Taken with a fish-eye lens on the Canon 5D MkII at 8:00 a.m. this morning.

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IOM December 2010 – M38 [NGC 1912] an open cluster in Auriga

I always have a lot of trouble with my imaging at this time of year as there are so many great objects up there to be grabbed and I can only concentrate on one at a time.  Auriga is in … Continue reading

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