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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
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
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
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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