Great news again!  The Parker/Carboni double-team got their rendition of the Jellyfish Nebula region in this month’s Astronomy Now as Picture of the Month!!  Thank you once again to Nik Szymanek for a very nice accompanying description.

On pages 72-73 of the July issue of Astronomy Now you can read all the gory details of how the whole of the Veil Nebula was captured in a 32-hour imaging (and processing) marathon.

Well our definitive version of M31 with all the added H-alpha made Picture of the Month in the May 2008 issue of Astronomy Now.  Thank you Nik Szymanek for the very nice accompanying write-up

Just came home on Wednesday 15th August to find we have Picture of the Month in this Month’s (September 2007 Issue) Astronomy Now magazine.  Astronomy Now have published our wide field picture of the The North America Pelican Nebula.  Taken with the Takahashi Sky 90/SXVF-M25C combination, this is only around 4 hours or so of total exposure time, which is at the lower end for my work with the little Tak as I normally use a minimum of around 8 hours for nebulae.  Noel has managed to keep really good star colour as you can see, while bringing out all the faint stuff in the region of the Pelican.

Sir Arthur C Clarke sent Greg a tribute to Sir Patrick Moore on the occasion of his 50th Sky at Night anniversary with instructions to get it published where the astronomically-interested would see it (of course you can read the tribute here as well!). 

Astronomy Now took up this wonderful offer and in the July issue the Arthur C Clarke tribute to Sir Patrick Moore can be seen on pages 40-41.  Sir Arthur has put a lot of very interesting history in his tribute.

More importantly on page 93 in the Picture Gallery you’ll find a full-colour 2-frame Sky 90/M25C shot of the Markarian Chain region.

In the June 2007 issue of Astronomy Now there is a 4 page article on the work that we have been doing (pages 28 - 31) titled “Picture Gallery Special - Greg Parker”.

We are really, really happy and excited with this article.  Two years ago there is no way that I would have thought a single image would get published let alone a four page article!  Here you can see a number of our best images to date and some explanation of how the images were acquired by Greg, and processed by Noel all the way across the pond in sunny Florida.

Our picture of M51 appears on page 48 under the article heading “Beginner’s Challenge: The spiral arms of M51.  Our image of M13 and M101 also appear on the Messier Challenge Poster - these are all single frame Hyperstar/SXV-H9C images.

Astronomy Now are printing one of our images of M31 in “the night sky” on page 51.  It is certainly a dramatic image and one of our favourites.  This is just the central core region of M31 taken with the Hyperstar/SXV-H9C - BUT - it contains 311 sub-exposures!!

The accompanying image made Picture of the Month in the March 2007 issue of Astronomy Now!  You can find this one on page 92.  The image taken with the Sky 90/M25C combination and shows the Cone Nebula, Christmas Tree cluster region in Monoceros.  The beautiful little golden open cluster at the bottom/centre of this image is designated Trumpler 5.  There was no additional H-alpha data taken for this image, something I shall attempt to do during Winter 2007.

We have three images in the 2007 yearbook :

Page 38 is the 4 frame Hyperstar image of M31 as one of the top 10 images of 2006

Page 72 is a Hyperstar image of M13 as a summer object

Page 97 has the Virgo Cluster as “deep sky delights”