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EPOD today – Dartmoor land of granite

Greg Parker — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 07:37:51 +0000

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.

Got today’s EPOD :)

Greg Parker — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:07:17 +0000

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 )

Vesta image acquired from the NFO makes today’s EPOD!

Greg Parker — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:18:54 +0000

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

Meridian weather video from March 10th 2010

Greg Parker — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:36:43 +0000

Simon Parkin presented the Meridian TV weather on March 10th around 6:30 p.m. and showed the beehive cluster image (Messier 44) taken just the night before from the New Forest Observatory Noel Carboni processed the data as usual to create the deep-sky work of art.

Video footage Copyright Meridian TV.

Meridian weather picture tonight – the Beehive cluster, M44 in Cancer.

Greg Parker — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:21:41 +0000

Simon Parkin gave tonight’s Meridian Weather forecast and the introductory picture was the Beehive cluster (M44) in Cancer which is now in a great position for imaging. I recently took several hours data on this one using both 5 and 10-minute subs. Noel Carboni is processing the data. I shall put up a short video capture of the Meridian Weather forecast a bit later.

EPOD for today – NGC1333 and dust clouds in Perseus

Greg Parker — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:27:08 +0000

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.

Astronomy Picture of the Day [APOD] – Kemble’s Cascade

Greg Parker — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:36:55 +0000

Managed to get today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day [APOD] with the wide field (sparkly colour) image of Kemble’s Cascade. I like this image so much it is one of the permanent “wallpapers” on my home computer. The little open cluster sitting on the left hand edge of the cascade makes this image perfect IMO

Noel has just told me that he did a lot of his StarSpikes Pro development work using this image of Kemble’s Cascade as a “test piece”. I think it certainly paid off. If you are into processing astronomical images and want full control over the software-based spikes and where they go – take a look at Noel’s StarSpikes Pro software – great value for money!

Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) – low winter Sun

Greg Parker — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:08:12 +0000

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

Meridian weather picture for December 28th 2009 – a festive deep-sky image from the NFO

Greg Parker — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:00:58 +0000

Here is a short clip from the Meridian weather forecast from December 28th 2009.

Total visits to the NFO site on 24th December 2009 – 4341

Greg Parker — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:58:33 +0000

Yesterday, following publication of our Gamma Cass and friends image on Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) – the New Forest Observatory (NFO) site got 4,341 visits!! Usual daily visit rate is around 150. Such is the power of APOD