Monthly Archives: February 2026

Picture of the Week

Posted on February 22, 2026 by Greg Parker

Back over the New Forest again this week with one of my favourites. I call them Highlanders (after the film) but they are Highland cattle. They look pretty formidable, but they don’t give visitors a second glance.

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Indistinguishable from Magic

Posted on February 21, 2026 by Greg Parker

My Dad was out in the Northwest Frontier in WWI doing plate photography! I have just a few surviving images that were transferred to photographic paper as the hundreds of plates he had were all destroyed when my parents were … Continue reading →

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Controlled Nuclear Fusion

Posted on February 20, 2026 by Greg Parker

If you look on YouTube you will see a lot of recent hype on the progress in controlled nuclear fusion reactors. Without seeing progress I guess the funding would soon dry up, call me cynical. The first nuclear fusion experiment … Continue reading →

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Picture of the Week

Posted on February 15, 2026 by Greg Parker

Back to non-astro pics this week with birds that you often hear over the New Forest in summer, but rarely see as they like to hide in the gorse. This is a lovely pair of Stonechats and you know they’re … Continue reading →

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High-Resolution A1 Print of the Sombrero Galaxy Courtesy of Hubble

Posted on February 13, 2026 by Greg Parker

I just saw an image of the Sombrero galaxy taken by Hubble on X. Prompted me to download the highest resolution image I could find and print it out at A1 size on the HP Designjet T230. Here is the … Continue reading →

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Grokipedia

Posted on February 9, 2026 by Greg Parker

I was doing a bit of self-Googling, as you do (sorry Vicar) when up popped the Grokipedia article (link below). Now for about 10-seconds I thought this was going to be nothing more than my Wiki page with a bit … Continue reading →

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Picture of the Week

Posted on February 8, 2026 by Greg Parker

This week we go back to an astroimage. A very widefield of one of my favourite starfield regions – the Caph region of Cassiopeia. This image also captures my favourite open-cluster NGC7789, I call this the open cluster that thinks … Continue reading →

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Picture of the Week

Posted on February 1, 2026 by Greg Parker

This week we feature a High-Speed image of a pair of eggs being shot by an air rifle. You can just see the pellet to the far left of the image frozen in flight. I was inspired to take this … Continue reading →

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