Monthly Archives: July 2024

Photomicroscopy

This is a focus-stacked photomicromosaic of a Dragonfly’s eye. What does that mouthful mean? Well at the magnification used (20x) the whole Dragonfly eye will not fit into the FOV of the Canon 5D MkIII on a research trinocular microscope. … Continue reading

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Macrophotography

This is a 60 Megapixel image of an Owl Butterfly (underside) taken with a Canon DSLR and a Canon 100mm macro lens. The image is a mosaic and comprises of 6 separate frames that are put together in Photoshop to … Continue reading

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High-Speed Photography

Here’s an example of just one of many high-speed images taken using my own designed and built high-speed Xenon flashguns. This is an exposure time of just 10-microseconds (1/100,000th of a second) taken using the open-flash technique. A pair of … Continue reading

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Purchase a High-Quality Print of Any Image You Can See on the New Forest Observatory Website

With the acquisition of the new HP T230 4-colour printer, I am once again able to offer prints of ANY image you see on the NFO site. Print sizes available are A4, A3, A2 with a maximum of A1. Prints … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

This week we feature the Cone nebula region, a 3-frame (horizontal) mosaic taken with the Hyperstar III on the C11 with an M25C OSC CCD. On the left we have the Cone nebula, the central beautiful golden open cluster is … Continue reading

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Got Today’s EPOD

Got today’s EPOD with “Precious Wentletrap Shells”. Thank you Jim for continuing to publish my work 🙂 

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Large Format Printing Returns to the New Forest Observatory

I have suffered deep-sky large-format printing withdrawal symptoms for far too long now, and gave in yesterday to purchase a new large-format printer. So yesterday I ordered up an HP T230 A1 printer with a ton of accessories from Graphic … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

As promised on 24th June 2024 – here is an image that took me 10-years in the making. This is the whole of Corona Borealis, with the inverse-nova Carbon star R Coronae Borealis putting in a VERY bright appearance. Imaging … Continue reading

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