Author Archives: Greg Parker

Pinhole camera picture on yesterday’s Meridian Weather

You can see a short Video from last night’s Meridian Weather on here – copyright Meridian ITV – after a bit of experimentation I managed to get the video properly rendered 🙂

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Meridian Weather 22nd December 2010 with Simon Parkin

The 6-month pinhole camera image shown below made an appearance on last night’s Meridian Weather with Simon Parkin.  Actually came out well on the TV – congratulations to the technical team there at Meridian – and thank you Simon 🙂

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Winter Solstice 2010 6-month sub-exposure

Today the two pinhole cameras on the south-facing wall were opened up 🙂  The image below is a 6-month sub-exposure of my southern horizon showing the Sun’s path across the sky.  See how low it is in Winter!  You can … Continue reading

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NFO in the snow AGAIN 18th December 2010

Well there’s not much imaging getting done at the end of 2010 that’s for sure!

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Star Vistas – time is running out to get your friend’s Christmas gift

Sales of Star Vistas are rising rapidly as we approach Christmas 🙂  Get your copy ordered in time before stocks run out!

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So where are all the Geminid pictures?

Saw some beautiful Geminids last night between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. when it decided to cloud over.  Too lazy to go over to a New Forest dark site to photograph – I worked from the back garden – big mistake!!  … Continue reading

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The Matrix has landed at the New Forest Observatory!

Novatech came up to scratch with a new superb product – a 4-monitor support system that will take up to 24″ monitors – I have IIYAMA Prolite E2407HDS 24″ monitors, and as you can see on this video, the stand … Continue reading

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A starball and imaging frustration

As you will know we had a rare beautifully clear Moonless night last night – time for some serious imaging!  I had planned to grab IC1831, a ball of stars very close to the Heart nebula, quite some while back.  … Continue reading

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Imaging tonight!!

Well – it’s been a very long wait for a clear sky – but tonight in Brockenhurst I’ve struck lucky with the weather.  Absolutely freezing outside, but crystal clear dark (Moonless) sky outside and managed to get started imaging at … Continue reading

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Another 2nd December 2010 shot of the NFO in the snow

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