Well the roll of good luck continues!  Today Noel & I managed to get the Belt + Horsehead image published on the Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) website.  Thank you once again Jim

We’re on a roll!!  The Parker/Carboni double-team have just got the Astronomy Picture of the Day for 23rd December 2008 with our Coathanger cluster image :)  This one is a personal favourite of mine and was my desktop for many months.  Look down the postings and you will see our last APOD was just five days ago - so although 2008 has been very lean on APODs for us - we seem to be leaving the year on a high.

Great news for Greg & Noel - our image of La Superba has made it onto the  APOD [Astronomy Picture of the Day] site for December 18th 2008!!!!!!  This image was taken over 2 evenings using the Sky 90/SXVF-M25C combo, and the picture is square because I changed from portrait mode to landscape mode between the two imaging sessions.

I have always been fascinated by La Superba and when I saw it was as red on the monitor as described in the literature - it became an even more awe-inspiring object!

To start off the International Year of Astronomy we are really pleased to announce that our 2-frame mosaic of the Belt region of Orion made a 2-page spread in the January 2009 edition of Astronomy Now

Covering pages 24 and 25 there is a huge one and a half page picture of the Belt region of Orion [great job done reproducing the colour there Keith - thank you!!] in the “Picture this” section of the magazine.  We also managed to get an image of the Cave nebula in the “Picture Gallery” section - so a really great start to the New Year for us.  Let’s hope Star Vistas continues the 2009 excitement for Parker/Carboni.

The piece on the forthcoming publication of Star Vistas appeared on Meridian Evening News on Wednesday 10th December 2008.  You can visit the Meridian News web site and view the programme now.

Well - I didn’t see anything about Star Vistas on Meridian News on either the 3rd or 4th December 2008 - sorry for the bad information given below.  I have no idea when, or if, anything will be shown

Local independent TV broadcaster Meridian TV was filming at the New Forest Observatory on the evening of 2nd December 2008.  Unfortunately they were still filming when that evening’s News was on and I think I missed my image of the Moon/Venus/Jupiter on the weather introductory picture (more…)

The Star Vistas radio programme was broadcast on Radio Solent on the morning of Friday 28th November 2008 - you can download this interview over the Internet.

Meridian TV will be at the New Forest Observatory this coming week to cover the Star Vistas story and to get up to date with the most recent developments at the observatory.

It appears that the forthcoming publication of Star Vistas has caught the attention of the Press.  Although they have as usual got the detail incorrect, it’s a case of all publicity for Astronomy is good publicity.  The Sun has something here, and the Daily Telegraph has something here.  I believe the Daily Mail has something in preparation that is not yet published.  Just been told that it is also in the Metro newspaper, some friends based in London sent me this link.  And within the last 10-seconds I was sent a link to the Daily Mail’s article.  The Daily Mirror too!!!

Tomorrow there should be an interview on Radio Solent and possibly something on BBC South Today.

More great news!!  Today we got the Jellyfish nebula (IC443) and its companion IC444 published as an Earth Science Picture of the Day.  (more…)