The 2-billion year old open cluster NGC752 in the constellation Andromeda – together with a whole bunch of faint fuzzies (galaxies) in the background. North is up in this image.
An H-alpha narrowband image of NGC7380 in Cepheus taken way back on October 11th 2008 – just found unprocessed on the HDD this morning 🙂
Today’s EPOD is a 3-frame mosaic of the Cocoon nebula region showing the dark trailing nebulosity behind the Cocoon with the Milky Way as a backdrop. Thank you Jim for continuing to publish my work on EPOD 🙂
As I sit here with a gale roaring outside and the rain pelting down I wonder if I will ever see a clear sky again – and this got me thinking about how I will run the mini-WASP array. It … Continue reading
September may be the beginning of decent long evenings but wall to wall cloud doesn’t make for many images 🙁
Hooray – September – and some decent long evenings after what has been a very long wait. So what can we spend our time on this month to make all the effort of maintaining an interest in this hobby worthwhile? … Continue reading
Tom How spent a night over the Bank Holiday weekend at the NFO where he had a good play with the mini-WASP array – I was attempting (half satisfactorily) to polar align the Hyperstar III in the south dome. Meanwhile … Continue reading
Here are a few pictures from the day – I still can’t believe how lucky we were with the weather. Had a few drops of rain first thing in the morning just to put the scarers on us – then … Continue reading
Vesta is in the news recently and here is a New Forest Observatory image of the asteroid Vesta making its way out of Leo near the bright star Algieba.
As summer definitely starts retreating and autumn approaches a bit too rapidly – thoughts go back to a warmer time at the Starmus Festival on Tenerife – June 2011. This is the sumptuous Abama Hotel where most of the Festival … Continue reading
