Here is a two-camera two-scope mini-WASP image taken a few nights ago. It is fairly poor overall mainly because this was only 4 sub-exposures (they were however 1,000 second subs). I can make a vast improvement to this image with … Continue reading
Opened up the pinhole camera today (the day before the Winter Solstice) after another 6-month exposure imaging the Sun crossing my southern horizon. This time I used a FLAT film in the camera (which was an old tea caddy) rather … Continue reading
The deep-sky image for this week is one of mine 🙂 It is perhaps not one of the best-looking images that I have taken, but it is one of my favourites due to the amount of time I spent in … Continue reading
Just a reminder that the New Forest Observatory site now only shows astronomical images and all those other images that I used to post here such as macros, micros, high-speed flash and mathematical objects, can now be found on my … Continue reading
This week’s object is not deep-sky, it’s our closest star – the Sun. And look at the beauty of our nearest star as captured by Selsey astronomer Pete Lawrence. What a truly remarkable image – I would have that blown … Continue reading
Here is a 4-frame mosaic of the Pleiades taken with the original Hyperstar lens assembly (on a C11) with a tiny little H9C one-shot colour camera. Also happens to be one of my all-time favourite images.
On December 1st 2011 Greg was made Emeritus Professor of Photonics at the University of Southampton 🙂
The new Robofocus mounts were completed and tested today, all looks fine. Now I’m just waiting for a good friend to bring me his Sky 90 as the second imaging scope and I’ll be able to get on with the … Continue reading
Just making a couple of new Aluminium brackets to hold the Robofocus units to the Sky 90s. At present I mount the motors on a plate off the rack and pinion screws which on reflection is probably not the best … Continue reading
The image for this week comes from fellow PAIG forumite Harry Page – with yet another superb deep-sky offering – this time it’s the beautiful Iris nebula with its surrounding brown dusty clouds. This region of Cepheus is another one … Continue reading
