Am I the only one who can clearly see a Meerkat in Simeis 147? He sits there, curled up, with his tail coming round in front from between his back legs. Since Simeis 147 only has the common name “The … Continue reading
Blazing Moon last night so I spent a little time getting a good focus on the 200mm lens and then imaged both the Zosma region (with the Leo II dwarf galaxy) and the Virgo/Coma galaxy cluster region. This was done … Continue reading
Well – you can tell from the lack of pictures that I didn’t get any solar eclipse images as we were totally clouded out here in the New Forest. I guess if I’d taken this job half seriously I would … Continue reading
Earlier in the evening, before imaging La Superba, I saw a stunning crescent Moon/Venus photo-opportunity in the West. Grabbed the Canon 5D MkII and a 50mm lens and started snapping away.
I managed to get 4-hours worth of 10-minute subs on La Superba last night using the mini-WASP array. I composited this with around another 4-hours of data from a Sky 90/M25C combo – so around 8-hours in total using 10-minutes … Continue reading
Can actually see the Sun today – first time in 3 days! So I got the Solar imaging rig out – TS80 refractor, Canon 5D MkII, Baader Solar film, and a 5x Powermate – and took a few shots. The … Continue reading
I had one hour last night to get a 2-framer of the Merak region before thick heavy cloud came over. As it was, many of these subs were taken through thin high cloud which put a great glow around Merak. … Continue reading
Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) today http://epod.usra.edu/ is my Carbon Stars of Kemble’s Cascade image 🙂 Thank you Jim for continuing to publish my work. Must say, that one came out particularly sparkly 🙂 🙂
I got an uncalled for e-mail from a Press Office today – I get plenty of these, but today I was a little shorter than usual on the phone. Is it possible for them (the Press Office) to take some … Continue reading
I only need 300 more hits to take me up to the half million mark 🙂 Take a browse through my Flickr images today and let’s see if we can get there: https://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/
