I get asked this question A LOT when I give my “Magic of Photography” talk, so I thought I’d put the answer to this one up on my site. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second, so all we need … Continue reading
Another image from last night – but this time only 1-second exposure which prevented any significant trailing of the planets at this focal length. Image processed entirely by yours truly for a change 🙂 There’s still a touch of spikes … Continue reading
Just took this image a couple of hours ago. Mercury is getting very close to Jupiter (closest in 3-days I think). Noel cleaned up the image for me, so it’s been all the way to Florida and back before appearing … Continue reading
The International Space Station image taken last night (and shown in the post below) made it onto Simon Parkin’s weather programme tonight 🙂 Footage Copyright Meridian T.V.
A first for me – managed to capture the International Space Station crossing my southern horizon last night – Sunday March 6th 2011 at 6:57 p.m. – it is an amazing sight! This was a nice long 3-minute crossing (as … Continue reading
A very lively party at Sir Patrick’s last night, all the usual suspects present. This was a double celebration of the 700th Sky at Night, and Sir Patrick’s birthday (which was the day before). Sir Patrick had supposedly invited 70 … Continue reading
Dave Parker of Invisage Design has created a new web site for me called the Scientific Artist. This site will host all my images for deep-sky, macro, micro, high-speed, panoramic and conventional photography. Each section will also discuss in-depth how … Continue reading
Our deep-sky objects for March 2011 are a pair of open clusters that sit nicely in the field of view of most imaging setups – these are M35 and close-by NGC 2158 in Gemini. M35 (also labelled NGC 2168) has … Continue reading
