The final single star image from last night, 16 subs at 5-minutes per sub using the M26C/Sky90 on Pollox, Castor’s twin. A bit of colour in Pollux (unlike Castor) so I went for this one first.
Another one from last night – this time Polaris using 19 subs at 5-minutes per sub on the M26C/Sky 90. A few faint fuzzies in the background, but annoyingly just missed Polarissima Borealis. North is up and note that we … Continue reading
After the most abysmal day and plenty of rain it cleared to give the most beautiful evening of the year so far for imaging. I wanted to make the most of the good imaging conditions so went for quantity rather than … Continue reading
Here is a two-camera two-scope mini-WASP image taken a few nights ago. It is fairly poor overall mainly because this was only 4 sub-exposures (they were however 1,000 second subs). I can make a vast improvement to this image with … Continue reading
Opened up the pinhole camera today (the day before the Winter Solstice) after another 6-month exposure imaging the Sun crossing my southern horizon. This time I used a FLAT film in the camera (which was an old tea caddy) rather … Continue reading
The deep-sky image for this week is one of mine 🙂 It is perhaps not one of the best-looking images that I have taken, but it is one of my favourites due to the amount of time I spent in … Continue reading
Just a reminder that the New Forest Observatory site now only shows astronomical images and all those other images that I used to post here such as macros, micros, high-speed flash and mathematical objects, can now be found on my … Continue reading
This week’s object is not deep-sky, it’s our closest star – the Sun. And look at the beauty of our nearest star as captured by Selsey astronomer Pete Lawrence. What a truly remarkable image – I would have that blown … Continue reading
Here is a 4-frame mosaic of the Pleiades taken with the original Hyperstar lens assembly (on a C11) with a tiny little H9C one-shot colour camera. Also happens to be one of my all-time favourite images.
On December 1st 2011 Greg was made Emeritus Professor of Photonics at the University of Southampton 🙂
