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.

More good news!  Managed to get the Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) image for 13th March 2009 – with a “real” Earth Science picture – not a deep-sky image   This time it was a crepuscular ray sunset over North Weirs (New Forest) in mid-winter.  We had a succession of spectacular sunsets for several consecutive days around this time – and then it all reverted back to normal.

Good news yet again!!  We got yesterday’s Earth Science Picture of the Day [EPOD] with that amazing variable star lying right next to open cluster NGC7789 in Cassiopeia.  Thank you once again Jim for publishing our work

Hey!  Looks like we got today’s EPOD with the deeeeeeeep Coathanger Cluster image   Thank you Jim at EPOD for publishing this one!

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

More great news!!  Today we got the Jellyfish nebula (IC443) and its companion IC444 published as an Earth Science Picture of the Day.  Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s EPOD is the Canon 40D image of the crescent Moon and Mercury taken a while back.

The sky played ball for a change giving a very atmospheric image.  This one image has by far the greatest number of viewing hits on my Flickr site!  Thank you once again Jim for publishing work from the NFO on your site.

Great news yet again!!!  I managed to get an EPOD image published today. Read the rest of this entry »

Woke up to a very pleasant surprise this morning   The Parker/Carboni definitive M31 image made today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day [EPOD]!!  Thank you Jim for taking an interest in our work.