Star Vistas is a very large format (approximately 12.0″ x 10.0″ - 30cm x 25cm) coffee-table book that contains the deep-sky imaging work of Greg Parker and Noel Carboni.  

Greg has now completed discussions with several major publishers, and Noel is putting the final finishing touches to the hundreds of deep-sky images we’ve taken over the past 3 years.

Star Vistas will bring you large-format, high-resolution, full-colour, full-page images of the deep-sky and solar system objects.  On the page facing each image will be a short description of the object, together with the imaging parameters.

There are two introductions:

• Imaging deep-sky objects by Greg
• Processing deep-sky images by Noel

And we are incredibly lucky to have a foreword written by three lovers of astronomy:

• Sir Arthur C Clarke
• Sir Patrick Moore
• Dr Brian May

At last, the long awaited large format “coffee-table” book of Parker/Carboni deep-sky images will be published! 

Please visit this site regularly to either post your comments to us, or just see how the work is progressing.

Noel has a self-imposed deadline of end March 2008 to get all the images knocked into shape.  The book contracts have been returned to the publisher, and we are very happy to announce that the book will be published by Springer!

During the course of this project we have had the dreadful news that Sir Arthur C Clarke, one of the writers of the Foreword, has died.  We will be dedicating Star Vistas to the memory of the great Sir Arthur C Clarke - I think he would like that.

Star Vistas is now proceeding through Springer’s production process!  We are expecting publication during January 2009 - unfortunately it looks like we will miss the Christmas market for this book :(  Within the next couple of weeks there will be a site set up solely for the Star Vistas project which you will be able to access on http://www.starvistas.com/ hope to see you over there soon