The Canon 200mm prime lens and the Canon 5D MkII DSLR were put to good use a few days back grabbing a massive (10 x 6.8 degree) wide-field around the Cocoon nebula in Cygnus. Using ISO 400 and f#4.5 with … Continue reading
A beautiful clear Moonless night last night meant I was up imaging until 2:00 a.m. – ah the joys of deep-sky astrophotography. I put the M25C OSC on the back of the Canon 200mm prime lens set at f#4 and … Continue reading
A professionally framed deep-sky image from the New Forest Observatory will make the most stunning Christmas present for the astronomer in your family – and as all framed images form part of a numbered print run – your present will … Continue reading
This month’s image is a wide-field taken using the amazing Canon EF200 f#2.8 prime lens and a Canon 5D MkII DSLR. Piggy-back mounted on the C11 I took 10 x 5-minute subs at ISO 400 and f#4 with an IDAS … Continue reading
Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/09/navigators-companion.html is an image of the Polaris region with the North Celestial Pole shown by a marker. This is EPOD number 53 🙂 Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.
You should be able to guess from the last few entries that there haven’t been any clear nights 🙁 No different tonight – but at least I’ll stay on topic 🙂 This is some DSS2 data of the Pleiades region … Continue reading
As I rapidly leave middle-age and note the ever increasing loss of elasticity of the skin on the back of my hands I become acutely aware of my DNA’s inability to perfectly replicate. Enter Deinococcus radiodurans – a polyextremophile bacterium, … Continue reading
The Government would like to spend £50 billion of your money on a new high speed rail link. How would you prefer 50 nuclear reactors spread around the country and free electricity for the rest of your life? Free electricity … Continue reading
I just did a quick check through of all the Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) images that have been published by Jim over the years and I found I had missed 2 off the list. So when I … Continue reading
This is another non-astronomical rant, although it does concern our planet – so if you don’t like these posts – read no further. In my 59 years on this planet I have never given any money to charity – until … Continue reading
