Monthly Archives: June 2012

More data added to the Deneb region image

While I have been trying to tune up scope 1 and camera 1 on the mini-WASP array, I have not wasted good imaging time 🙂  During the tuning periods I was imaging the same region with the well-tuned scope 2 and camera … Continue reading

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Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with the recent M13 image

Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with the recent M13 image captured at the New Forest Observatory and expertly processed by Noel Carboni in Florida U.S.A.  Looks very nice on the site Jim – thank you for … Continue reading

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Another 6-month Sun trail image using the Tea caddy pinhole camera

Today being the summer Solstice for 2012, and seeing as it has rained all day, I opened up the two Tea caddy pinhole cameras that I put up last winter Solstice.  So here we have 6-months worth of Sun trails … Continue reading

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2012 Sony World Photography Awards – runner-up

I managed to get runner-up in the “Split Second” category of the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards 2012 with my “eggsplosion” high-speed flash image.  Hoping to do just that bit better in 2013 🙂  

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Downloaded PEMPro from CCDWare for 60-day free evaluation

I have just downloaded the 60-day trial version of PEMPro from CCDWare (I already use their brilliant CCDInspector software) for evalutaion.  PEMPro allows you to polar align and train the PEC for your mount.  As I want to be able … Continue reading

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Venus transit June 2012 – a mid-transit image

Below I published images of the beginning and the end of the transit (downloaded live from the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite) – but for some reason I did not include an image from near the middle of the transit.  Rectified … Continue reading

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The whole of the 2012 Transit of Venus displayed as a montage

I used all the individual frames of the animation to put together this montage of the 2012 Transit of Venus.  In the very last image of the Sun, Venus has just passed the edge of the Sun and we will … Continue reading

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Some single transit of Venus 2012 images

Some single stills images of the 2012 transit of Venus from last night/early this morning.

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The NFO control room during the 2012 Transit of Venus

This was the view of the 4-monitors in the New Forest Observatory Control Centre last night/this morning during the Transit of Venus.  Screen top left was Norway – this was the first to show ingress, a good few minutes ahead … Continue reading

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The June 2012 Transit of Venus

I pulled an all-nighter downloading the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory solar images during the period of the Venus transit and put this animation together 🙂

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