On the 17th – 18th February 2014 there will be a joint Royal Photographic Society/Royal Astronomical Society meeting on Astroimaging. Looks like this will be an interesting event.
Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) http://epod.usra.edu/ with the recent “12 brightest stars” montage I put together. Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work 🙂
I believe that recently Alan Turing has been pardoned. Pardoned for what exactly? Shouldn’t the Government of the day actually be asking for forgiveness of the Government of Turing’s day for the vicious chemical assault of Turing? Let this be … Continue reading
As it has been non-stop rain for days on end now, I have resorted to taking a look at old data. Just put together all the datasets I could find of the Cygnus Wall region taken with the Hyperstar III … Continue reading
Went into the garage and loaded up the pinhole camera tonight 🙂 All set and ready to go. Will put it out tomorrow (one day early) and take it down on 22nd June (one day late) if I can keep … Continue reading
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
