Simon Parkin used a New Forest Observatory image of the Orion nebula on last night’s Meridian Weather programme. As you will know, Orion is crossing the southern horizon now and is due south around 9:00 p.m. It won’t be too long before it has disappeared into the West for another year – and I haven’t had much chance of imaging in this region this year due to the atrocious weather Lucky we U.K. deep-sky imagers have almost infinite patience!
You can see a short Video from last night’s Meridian Weather on here - copyright Meridian ITV – after a bit of experimentation I managed to get the video properly rendered
The 6-month pinhole camera image shown below made an appearance on last night’s Meridian Weather with Simon Parkin. Actually came out well on the TV – congratulations to the technical team there at Meridian – and thank you Simon
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.
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.
The satellite van is in sunny Brockenhurst right now and there’ll be a live broadcast from the New Forest Observatory tonight on the local Meridian News. We’re due to have a few days (and nights!) fine weather apparently, so I guess we’ll all be bleary eyed for work again on Monday Watch this space for more on tonight’s programme.
Well that went a lot smoother than I was expecting, these Meridian guys are very professional and make the whole thing appear very relaxed and easy (which it isn’t). Even Louey (our black Labrador) made a cameo appearance on the night
Lucky we U.K. deep-sky imagers have almost infinite patience!
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