Flitting through a planetarium program I stumbled upon a nice bright Carbon star in Corona Borealis. Designated SAO 84015 at magnitude 6 this should look really great! So a couple of nights ago I fired up the mini-WASP to grab … Continue reading
A recent update seems to have screwed up my ability to post any new images to the New Forest Observatory – which to put it mildly is a pain. Dave Parker is working to sort this totally unnecessary hassle out.
My 50th Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) was posted today 🙂 🙂 Many thanks Jim for sticking with me and my various oddball pictures.
For this DSS2 image of the Tulip nebula region in Cygnus I just kept adding frames until the computer gave up 🙂
Please sign the AVAAZ petition regarding vandalism of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
A business forum I frequent has a never-ending series of life-enhancing articles along the lines of: The 5 things you must not say when you are after a raise in pay. The 8 characteristics of the most iconic CEOs. The … Continue reading
O.K. so this is another of my non-astronomy observations – sorry – but I am getting really cheesed off with the current Government thinking we are all a complete bunch of idiots. So we have UK economic growth of 0.6% … Continue reading
Another object bagged by the mini-WASP array during the recent period of clear Moonless nights. This time it is the Globular Cluster M10 in the constellation Ophiucus. 7 x 10-minute sub-exposures on all 3 cameras.
Lovely clear night again last night, but with a blazing Moon in the south it meant imaging towards the north. Decided on a cluster rich region close to Ruchbah in Cassiopeia as the target. Mini-WASP array, all 3 cameras firing, … Continue reading
It’s 11:30 p.m. – I’m in the NFO control room. Queen is on BBC4 and “Hammer to Fall” is blasting out, expecting the ASBO to be delivered any second. All 4 computers monitors on, I’m imaging 7 clusters and … Continue reading
