Author Archives: Greg Parker

Beautiful blue Bellatrix

Here is a recent Noel Carboni process of another bright star in Orion – this time it is Bellatrix on Orion’s shoulder taken using the mini-WASP array.

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A new course for 2013

Due to having received several requests – the New Forest Observatory now offers another course for astronomers. “Constructing an observatory for imaging or observing” is the latest course we have on offer – please check the “Courses” section for details.

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A New Year’s Day treat – Sirius 2-framer

We unexpectedly got a few clear hours (unfortunately not Moonless) on New Year’s Day 2013 – this is after a whole month of cloud and rain!  We are now back to the cloud and rain again, so that one clear … Continue reading

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Image of the Month – January 2013

So we have the first Image of the Month for 2013 – Happy New Year 🙂 This one is a fairly new image taken at the beginning of last month – but for me and the New Forest Observatory it … Continue reading

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Purchasing DSLR (non-deep-sky) images

You can see how to purchase deep-sky images here in the “Image Gallery/Agency Copyright Notice” section. For DSLR images – photomicroscopy/micromosaics, macro/macromosaics, “Little Planet”, panoramas, and high-speed flash images – please check the purchasing details for either datafiles or prints … Continue reading

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Sir Arthur C Clarke’s tribute to Sir Patrick Moore’s Sky at Night programme:

With the recent passing of Sir Patrick Moore I thought it would be worth revisiting this post from July 2007 where Sir Arthur C Clarke pays tribute to Sir Patrick.  Sir Arthur sent me the article asking me to put … Continue reading

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Climate change? What climate change??

Here’s a view of the Burley river in Brockenhurst on 22/12/2012 – actually somewhere under there is Burley road!

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The International Space Station on 21/12/2012

Terrible sky conditions – but still managed to capture most of a long 4-minute pass of the International Space Station.  If the rain will leave off in a couple of days there’s a mega 6-minute pass!!!!

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Sir Arthur C Clarke

Would have been 95 today 🙁 Data is not information Information is not knowledge Knowledge is not wisdom

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National Geographic publications.

You will find a listing of my National Geographic publications on the Scientific Artist web site.

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