Fellow astro-imager Tom How turned up bright and early this morning to help with the building of the concrete pier base. With a lot of help from Tom we managed to complete the task in just 3-hours, we both thought … Continue reading
Noel Carboni has just finished processing this wide-field deep-sky image from a few days back. This is the Whale & Hockey stick region in Coma Berenices and you can also see “The Mice” lower far left. Shows that I don’t … Continue reading
The big Wickes order arrived this morning at 11:00 a.m. and I put the cement mixer together ready to build the concrete pier support with Tom How tomorrow (Saturday). The mini-WASP is really starting to take off now! Next will … Continue reading
Took a look at the web site just before going to bed (as you do) and saw that the New Forest Observatory today exceeded 200,000 visitors. WOW!!! Thank you all for your interest – please keep visiting and keep right … Continue reading
Kieron of SCS Astro Limited (Somerset) has helped me out yet again – this time with an extremely good price on a pair of 52mm Hutech IDAS light pollution filters. Thank you very much Kieron 🙂 Why 52mm? Because the … Continue reading
Noel has just finished processing the recent Leo Trio data and added in some very old Hyperstar 1 data (taken on an H9C!) from way back. Needless to say, Noel’s process is far better than my feeble effort and you … Continue reading
Like something from a Douglas Adams novel, the hole takes on an existence of its own. The 20″ x 20″ hole is now 3 foot deep – one more foot to go. I hadn’t appreciated what a pain it is … Continue reading
I cut first turf in starting the mega mini-WASP project this afternoon. Beautiful hot sunny day, too hot for hard labour really but I thought I’d better get started with the obligatory hole in the ground before the ground turned … Continue reading
On last night’s (4th April 2011) Meridian Weather, Simon Parkin showed the Leo Trio image acquired at the New Forest Observatory. Video footage Copyright Meridian News and Weather. View the video here.
Unexpectedly clear night last night so I managed to grab 3 and a half hours worth of 200 second subs on the M53 region with the Sky 90/M25C. There’s a pile of faint fuzzies in the background of this average … Continue reading
