Got today’s EPOD with a panoramic (4-frame) view of Hurst Spit, the Isle of Wight, Hurst castle and Hurst lighthouse – plus Keyhaven salt marshes and the Solent.  There’s lots to see in this image   Thank you Jim for continuing to show interest in my work.

Managed to get today’s EPOD with a panoramic view over Burrator resevoir towards Leather Tor taken from the top of Sheepstor in Dartmoor National Park.  I know this area extremely well as I lived in the village of Walkhampton which is just a couple of miles away.  Thank you Jim for choosing an image of one of my most favourite parts of the U.K. for today’s EPOD.  By the way, the panorama is enormous and from memory was made up from around 50 frames from a Canon 40D DSLR.

Managed to bag today’s EPOD with an image of the White Lady Falls, Lydford Gorge, Dartmoor National Park – the highest falls in Devon.  Thanks once again to Jim for publishing my work (even the non-deep-sky stuff )

Today’s EPOD shows the asteroid Vesta leaving the head of Leo the lion as recently taken from the NFO.  Unusually both the data acquisition and the image processing for this one were carried out by yours truly.  There are a few faint background galaxies in this image which are also a feature of the constellation Leo.  Thank you Jim for putting ”Vesta leaving Leo” up on your site

Pulled up EPOD (Earth Science Picture of the Day) a couple of minutes ago and unexpectedly found the NFO image of NGC1333 looking back at me.  It really is a stunning region of space and the eerie-looking dust clouds gives the image a really sinister appearance.  Thank you Jim for putting this one up today – I think it is one of our very best so far.

Got today’s EPOD with a shadow self-portrait taken at mid-day near the winter solstice over the New Forest.  Thank you Jim for continuing to show my work

Great news!  Noel & I managed to get today’s EPOD with a festive Christmas Tree cluster and cone nebula shot (EPOD have the picture upside down at the moment – but I’ve told Jim so it might turn up the right way later on today).  Thank you Jim for continuing to show our work to your huge audience

Managed to get 4-hours of imaging on little NGC1333 in Perseus last night in sub-zero conditions.  I think there was some high lying mist/fog but hopefully the image turned out o.k.

Managed to get today’s EPOD with a shot with a tiny little Canon IXUS camera – a view of central Athens from the Acropolis with Lykavittos hill as the main subject.

We had a week of sub-zero temperatures at the beginning of 2009 which led to hoar-frost covered spider webs and grass as well as “crystalline copses” – trees glittering from the ice in the early morning winter sunshine.  It was also a very hard time for the forest animals and farmers brought out feed for the cattle for sevaeral weeks – the first time I had seen this done locally.

A picture of the frost covered spider webs made today’s EPOD

It does look like an artificial grouping of stars to make up the number 37 – but the group of stars at the centre of this image are for real and clearly show the number 37, proving Douglas Adams although very close with 42 – was actually slightly out.  The 37 cluster is today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (APOD) – thank you Jim for a good choice of image on this April Fool’s Day.  The 37 cluster can be found residing in the constellation Orion.