Clear night last night so could see if my collimation efforts had any effect. The scope that always had reasonable collimation was still o.k. the scope that had poor collimation was still poor. Now seeing how they looked pretty much … Continue reading
I spent a couple of hours yesterday taking the imaging Sky 90s off the mini-WASP frame, collimating them with the Takahashi collimator, and then putting the whole thing back together again. Well – as far as the collimator goes, both … Continue reading
Nick Hudson (True Technology) visited the New Forest Observatory yesterday and brought with him an essential piece of kit for tuning up the mini-WASP array. Yes – the thing that has been halting any further progress on mini-WASP commissioning has … Continue reading
This was the “Close Encounters” scene over the New Forest Observatories at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday 12th April 2012. By 10:00 p.m. it had cleared to a perfect dark sky with no interfering Moon!
Simon Parkin used the recent UU Aurigae Carbon star image to introduce his Meridian Weather slot on 05/04/2012 at 10:30 p.m. Video footage Copyright Meridian News & Weather 2012.
This is turning out to be quite an eventful day. The Carbon star image (below) will be on tonight’s late Meridian Weather forecast after the 10:00 p.m. news. As I left the observatory this morning after picking up last night’s … Continue reading
Moon blazing away overhead last night, but it was nice and clear up to around 11:00 p.m. So what to image? How about a nice Carbon star? This little beauty is UU Aurigae in the constellation Auriga (SAO 59280) and … Continue reading
I have discussed (in my Inaugural lecture and Matrix articles) why the Universe seems to be mathematically based, but Max Tegmark explains it all a little better. Definitely worth a long wander around his fascinating web site.
We are still in galaxy season 🙂 So I have chosen another galaxy for this month’s “Image of the Month”. This time, what I consider to be the most beautiful face-on spiral galaxy in the northern hemisphere – Messier 101 … Continue reading
Here is a colour and negative B&W version of the on-going Virgo/Coma galaxies mega-mosaic. Over 4 years in the making so far, this image stretches from M58 in the bottom left hand corner right up to M100 in the top … Continue reading
