Another image using the original Hyperstar and the little H9C one-shot colour camera. Pretty deep for just 2.5 hours total exposure time – shows the speed of the Hyperstar lens 🙂
Having spent an academic career in advanced optics I am more than a little sceptical about the recent faster than light neutrino claims as you will know from posts below. As astronomers we should also be aware of the 1987A … Continue reading
O.K. so once you get past the first 150 pages (roughly the length of the first book) the great chunks of text transposed from the first book thin out. So my recommendation is if you buy both books don’t bother … Continue reading
This week’s spectacular image of M51 (the Whirlpool Galaxy) comes from Bud Guinn who hails from the U.S.A. and frequents the American astronomy forum “Our Dark Skies”. Unbelievably this is the “first light image” taken using Bud’s new remote facility … Continue reading
I just came across a load of very old imaging files taken using the original Hyperstar (no collimation screws) and a tiny little H9C one-shot colour CCD (1.4 Megapixels from memory). Did a pretty good job all told, and this … Continue reading
The North America nebula (NGC7000) 3-framer taken using the mini-WASP array made this week’s “Image of the Week” on the My Astro Space site http://www.myastrospace.com/ 🙂
So far (page 58) fairly disappointed with Leonard Nimoy’s second Autobiography as it contains great chunks of material from the first book. Won’t be reading this one in one sitting 🙁
Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day with a non-astronomical image this time 🙂 Thank you Jim for continuing to publish my work, both astronomical and non-astronomical.
A few years back Chris Packham ran an Inside Out BBC programme on the New Forest Observatory. Chris and the BBC team did the most amazing job on this and you can see the result of their work here. Video … Continue reading
It will be of no surprise to those few people who know me well enough that Star Trek has been a great motivator (and joy) in my life and that I owe special debt of gratitude to Mr. Spock for … Continue reading
