Category Archives: House and home

The Only “Cloud” in the Sky

A blisteringly hot day today, a clear azure-blue sky, without a SINGLE cloud, except for this odd-shaped one 🙂 

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The New Forest Observatory 05/05/2015 at 2:00 p.m.

A “Little Planet” shot taken this afternoon with the Canon 5D MkII and a 15mm Canon fish-eye lens.

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Purchase your own unique New Forest Observatory deep-sky fine art portfolio for this Christmas!

For the very first time, the New Forest Observatory is offering a portfolio of deep-sky fine art images.  There are 3 portfolios on offer, a 5-pack, a 10-pack, and a 12-pack.  All images are printed on A4 HP Premium Plus … Continue reading

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Be ready in plenty of time for Christmas this year

A professionally framed deep-sky image from the New Forest Observatory will make the most stunning Christmas present for the astronomer in your family – and as all framed images form part of a numbered print run – your present will … Continue reading

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Purchase of non deep-sky images

If you wish to purchase High-Speed Flash, “Little Planet”, Photomicroscopy or Macro images, then please check out what is available on the Scientific Artist web site.

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Purchasing DSLR (non-deep-sky) images

You can see how to purchase deep-sky images here in the “Image Gallery/Agency Copyright Notice” section. For DSLR images – photomicroscopy/micromosaics, macro/macromosaics, “Little Planet”, panoramas, and high-speed flash images – please check the purchasing details for either datafiles or prints … Continue reading

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“Little Planet” 2

A second go at a New Forest Observatories “Little Planet” scene – taken today.

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A “Little Planet” image of the New Forest Observatories

I was sitting at the computer yesterday (Saturday) typing out some rubbish or the other when for some unknown reason I suddenly twigged how those “Little Planet” images are taken.  So I grabbed the Canon 5D MkII and a fish … Continue reading

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This might take a little while

I sent off an image of the Horsehead nebula to be made into a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle.  Here it is freshly opened on a big piece of card.  I don’t think I made the best choice of deep-sky object … Continue reading

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Framed Cocoon mega wide field in the dining room

I have just hung the 5-foot wide framed image of the Cocoon nebula region in the dining room.  It looks awesome 🙂

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