Great day today – met one of my literary heroes 🙂 Went up to London with my son Adam and met up with an old school mate Dick Jude – who actually used to run the Forbidden Planet book shop. … Continue reading
Nice clear Moonless night last night – up until midnight that is when in rolled the high cloud and imaging ended. Got just over 3 hours on the Soul nebula IC1848 in Cassiopeia. Looking at the data I probably need … Continue reading
I had a thoroughly good time at my pushing-off party at the University of Southampton last night and would like to thank everyone involved for such a pleasant evening – I really enjoyed it (and I usually don’t like parties … Continue reading
Today is the first day of a new life for me 🙂 After 23 years 5 months and 4 days [yes actually, I was counting] I have now officially retired (early) from the University of Southampton. Feel like the veritable pig … Continue reading
This month’s imaging object is M15 [NGC7078] the Great Pegasus Cluster, a very nice Globular Cluser in the constellation Pegasus. This is a large globular with a diameter of 18 arc minutes (M13 is 21 arc minutes) and lies at … Continue reading
Here you can find a short Video clip of the triple screen system at the NFO control centre. This video was taken on the Canon 5D MkII DSLR camera using a 14mm fish eye lens. The movie clip was uploaded on … Continue reading
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Sir Patrick had a Whisky tasting event he hosted at Farthings on 17th September 2010 and we were educated in all things distilled by Dr. Andrew M. Forrester who is the Balvenie Ambassador U.K. Some rather fine Whiskies were sampled … Continue reading
After a very succesful Exhibition of the Star Vistas images at the ArtSway gallery – Star Vistas will now be showing at the Photo Gallery in Bristol from October 23rd until November 3rd 2010. There will be a Preview and … Continue reading
One of my high speed flash images appeared last night on Meridian TV 🙂 Video clip Copyright Meridian TV.
