I am putting together a new pinhole camera for this coming December 21st 2013 (Winter Solstice). It will remain outside recording whatever Sun there might be until June 21st 2014 (Summer Solstice). Big difference from the earlier pinhole photographs I … Continue reading
Beautiful clear Moonless sky last night and I took the last shots with the 200mm and M25C as I am so impressed by this lens that I will shift it to the mini-WASP top-plate and put an M26C on it. … Continue reading
I put together a little montage of the 3 brightest stars for those living in Northern latitudes. You can see the image here. Sirius, Arcturus and Vega to similar scales and total exposure times, so this is relatively how they … Continue reading
Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with “Fibonacci Spirals in the Garden” – http://epod.usra.edu/ Thank you Jim for continuing to publish my work 🙂
Got out on 23/11/2013 with the Canon 200mm prime lens and the 6-Megapixel M25C one-shot colour camera to do some imaging on the California nebula. Managed 12 x 5-minute subs before the cloud came in. Very pleased with the result … Continue reading
Another non-astro post, so if you’re not interested please stop reading here. A certain Bank has been accused of wrecking small businesses, as if this is some kind of new behaviour – sorry, it is not. In a past life … Continue reading
I recently fitted the M25C 6-Megapixel one shot colour CCD to the Canon 200mm prime lens. Took around an hour to flatten the chip to the lens using CCDInspector, but the time was worth it as I managed to end … Continue reading
You would have thought that with a whole Cassiopeia mosaic I would have caught the Lambda-Lambda asterism – and of course I did. It is in this image top left of the main star Epsilon. Reason it wasn’t immediately obvious … Continue reading
Not managed to image this one myself yet (non-stop rain) but I found a new asterism in Cassiopeia that bears a strong resemblance to the Greek letter Lambda. Will grab this with the mini-WASP array at the first opportunity 🙂 … Continue reading
Arrived today 🙂 This is clearly a labour of love. Beautifully presented, oozing quality, and very fine attention paid to the detail throughout. I had the honour of going through Brian’s Ph.D. thesis on “A Survey of Radial Velocities in … Continue reading
