I have just seen that I got Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) number 47 on May 25th for “Imaging Diatoms”.

I can only imagine that I missed this because I had been working over the allotment all day and got back too shattered to even bother turning the computer on.  Still at least over 100 runner bean plants and over 300 spuds went in ready for this year

Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work and my apologies for not acknowledging sooner

Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) is Hind’s Crimson star acquired at the New Forest Observatory and processed by Noel Carboni in Florida U.S.A.

Friday February 15th was a very eventful day for astronomers world-wide.  Simon Parkin had already arranged to broadcast the weather live from the New Forest Observatory that evening due to the near miss asteroid DA14 that was due in our skies that evening.  What nobody had expected was the huge Russian no-near-miss-at-all asteroid that crash landed that morning.  Typical, you wait for over a Century and then two come along on the same day.  Anyway, here is some YouTube footage of the broadcast from the NFO.  Yes I did get West mixed up for East (the asteroid came up from low in the East) – I put this down to my two years in New Zealand where up is down and left is right and it has absolutely nothing to do with my age   Video footage is Copyright Meridian News & Weather.

Simon Parkin and the Meridian Weather film team – together with satellite transmission van – did a live broadcast from the New Forest Observatory on 15/02/2013, the evening of the near miss flyby of the asteroid.  Here are a couple of stills from just before the live transmission.

Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with the recent Sirius image.  Thank you Jim for continuing to publish our work

Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) is the recent image I took of a Sundog over North Weirs with a New Forest pony grazing in the foreground.  Thank you Jim for continuing to publish my work

The Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) image for today is the recent shot of the Double Cluster and Greg’s Charm Bracelet taken at the New Forest Observatory on the mini-WASP array and processed by Noel Carboni in Florida U.S.A.

Many thanks Jim for continuing to publish our work

Got today’s EPOD with the supernova in M95 from March this year.  That’s EPOD number 41   Thank you Jim for continuing to publish work from the New Forest Observatory.

Got today’s EPOD with the Algol/Rho Persei image from a while back   Thank you Jim for continuing to publish my work from the New Forest Observatory.

Simon Parkin showed the recent Crescent nebula with Carbon star image on tonight’s Meridian Weather