Now going back looking at old data where I have put mosaics together (not very well). Noel’s AstroFlat tool allows you to flatten each frame of the mosaic so that they are dead easy to stitch together seamlessly. Below there … Continue reading
There are no hours of darkness in the southern UK right now – but going out to a beautiful clear sky last night – I just had to take a piccie. This is a 6-second exposure at ISO800 with the … Continue reading
Check out the You Tube video of last night’s 10 p.m. ISS pass here. Mute the audio when playing.
This is part of last night’s 5-minute ISS pass that started around 11:33 p.m. Earlier in the day I had seen a load of cloud coming in from the West that I thought would give me complete cloud cover by … Continue reading
Last night – 31/05/2017, 10:49 p.m. – from the New Forest Observatory. Another long 6-minute pass of the International Space Station. I think this is the longest pass I have managed to image with the 15mm fisheye lens so far.
OK – so things are now getting very interesting indeed here in the UK. Just a few weeks before a rather important General Election, Theresa May announces that she wants to bring back Fox hunting. No, this is not fake … Continue reading
If you had clear skies, you may have noticed last night that Jupiter was very close to the 12-day old Moon. This image has a fisheye view of the scene over the New Forest Observatories and inset there is a … Continue reading
So the Prime Number the MegaNode computing facility just found has now been confirmed – it is: 3438759891285*2^1290000-1 Which is 388,342 digits long and is in the top 5,000 largest primes. I just ran the numbers through Mathematica to see … Continue reading
Yesterday – 2nd May 2017 – the DELL Quad Node number cruncher came up with a new Prime(s). Don’t know how many digits or how many Primes yet until my “checker” reports in. However a kind Admin ran the number … Continue reading
I don’t know who kicked this meme off, but some dipstick Journalist ignorant in the history of astronomy started it a couple of years back, and successive dipstick Journalists have carried on being lazy and simply copying this crap. What … Continue reading
