The Image of the Month for March 2013 is the recent mini-WASP array capture of M46 & M47, a lovely pair of open clusters in Puppis. I have wanted to grab this one since the winter constellations first started appearing … Continue reading
I’ve just noticed that for some reason the new Image of the Month hasn’t automatically popped up. Strange – absolutely no idea what went wrong there. Never mind – here it is – just a little late. The February 2013 … Continue reading
So we have the first Image of the Month for 2013 – Happy New Year 🙂 This one is a fairly new image taken at the beginning of last month – but for me and the New Forest Observatory it … Continue reading
One of my favourite regions of sky, I have to return time and time again to all that bright Cygnus nebulosity, I find it amazing. This image of the North America/Pelican region is a composite using both Sky 90/M25C and … Continue reading
I have several Parker-Carboni images that are my favourites, and this one is amongst them. Quite a few hours of one-shot colour went into creating this image of M31 and a few hours worth of H-alpha too. Then add a … Continue reading
This month’s Image of the Month is in my opinion the most underrated and unappreciated deep-sky image of all time – amateur or professional. It hasn’t even appeared as an APOD. Why on Earth not? Because I guess it is … Continue reading
This Month’s “Image of the Month” is courtesy of the Solar Dynamics Observatory 🙂 I stayed up all night downloading the images being sent back to Earth from the orbiting SDO which was capturing possibly the best set of data … Continue reading
This month’s Image of the Month is this incredible capture of M51 by American deep-sky imager Bud Guinn taken from his New Mexico remote observatory. Beautiful image Bud 🙂
Rogelio Bernal Andreo is completely redefining amateur deep-sky imaging. I have shown Rogelio’s work before in the NFO prequel “Image of the Week” and I continue to be completely blown away by the beauty and extreme high quality of his work. Here … Continue reading
Here is the first in the new series of Images for the Month 🙂 I will not be showing an Imaging Object for the Month but will replace that post with an amateur’s deep-sky image. The first Image of the … Continue reading
