I’ve just opened the pinhole camera in my study (one day early). This was behind the double glazing in a rectangular tea caddy tin box. You can see the NFO dome towards the right, and a neighbour’s house over the … Continue reading
This one went absolutely everywhere and I’ll be cleaning up the mess for weeks. It’s still far from perfect but I don’t think I’m capable of doing much better – so I’m calling it a day on the eggs.
Last night our faithful old cactus once again flowered and I caught the action with the Canon 40D and TC-80N3 timer controller. So what is this doing on a deep-sky imaging web site? I hope to use the same process … Continue reading
I have just half-completed a very scary summer project! The Hyperstar III lens assembly is a fantastic technological achievement which turns an ultra-slow f#10 Schmidt-Cassegrain into an ultra-fast f#2 Schmidt-Camera. There is a slight problem though with all that glass … Continue reading
The four pinhole cameras I have had imaging the southern horizon for the past 6 months are due to be opened on June 21st 2010 in the evening. I will put new film in each camera and set them off … Continue reading
Noel Carboni is currently assembling the NFO Spring mega project of 2010. This is a massive mosaic of the Virgo/Coma galaxy cluster region centred on the famous Markarian Chain of galaxies. This mosaic is created from a number of frames … Continue reading
It says something about the desperate current financial situation we are in that I need to write this entry, and it makes me quite sad to do so. The New Forest Observatory is a dedicated picture-taking telescope (i.e. you can’t … Continue reading
Managed to get today’s EPOD with a panoramic view over Burrator resevoir towards Leather Tor taken from the top of Sheepstor in Dartmoor National Park. I know this area extremely well as I lived in the village of Walkhampton which … Continue reading
It’s imaging dead time again as we enter the summer months and it never really gets dark at my latitude. Time once again to do all those chores which we don’t bother with when we’re getting on with the real … Continue reading
For those of you looking for my high speed flash photography site can I remind you that you will find ultra-fast Xenon flash images here.
