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Picture of the Week

This week we feature a Lunar Halo captured one cold evening at the New Forest Observatory, with Jupiter making a cameo appearance.

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Picture of the Week

Pictures of the Week beginning January 4th 2026 will include ALL images captured at the New Forest Observatory – not just astronomy images. In this image we have a pair of Buzzards soaring over the New Forest Observatory in a … Continue reading

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MiniWASP Array all OK!

Got out a couple of nights back to fire up the 200mm lenses and the 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras. If you remember in the last outing it looked like there might be water vapour in the optical system. So in … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

For the Christmas week we feature my favourite Christmas period star. The mighty Sirius!!!

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Picture of the Week

For the Christmas week we feature my favourite Christmas star. The mighty Sirius!!

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Picture of the Week

This week we feature a large galaxy cluster that can be found near Arcturus. All the faint brown fuzzies that can be seen in the centre of this image are all galaxies. A star is tagged so that you can … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

This week we feature the IC410/405 region of Auriga with an image captured using the 200mm Canon prime lenses together with the Optolong filters and the ASI 2600 MC Pro CMOS cameras.

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236 hours and 30 minutes later

And here’s the result of very nearly TEN DAYS continous, uniterrupted, flawless printing on the incredible ELEGOO Neptune 4 plus 3D printer. An incredible feat for such a low-priced large-volume printer. I don’t know how they do it – BUT … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

This week we feature a bright blue magnitude 3 star in Perseus, SAO39053, 39 Delta Persei. The image comprises 72 x 450-second subs, that is 540-minutes or NINE HOURS on the Sky90 array with the M26C OSC CCDs. I have … Continue reading

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Pinhole Camera Repaired

I have repaired the damaged pinhole of the drain-pipe pinhole camera ready for this Winter’s Solstice. The original pinhole itself was a pinhole in a disc-shaped piece of Aluminium foil. For some unknown reason, some unknown species of bird, took … Continue reading

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