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.
https://www.newforestobservatory.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Dads_photos0001-scaled.jpg https://www.newforestobservatory.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/ChatGPT-Image-Feb-21-2026-02_08_25-PM.png https://www.newforestobservatory.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/grok-video-56ec11d3-b45d-47ab-8166-9baeac22ee77-mp4-image.jpg 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 … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
This week we show a micrograph of a Dragonfly eye. But it takes quite a bit of work to put an image like this together. The image is captured using a Canon 5D MkII DSLR camera attached to a research … Continue reading
Today is the first day I have had the ELEGOO Neptune 4 Plus and the tiny (in comparison) ANET A6 printing at the same time. The Neptune is print out (yet another) Sierpinski pyramid, and the A6 is having a … Continue reading
