Last one for today – a 9-microsecond ultra high speed flash shot of an air rifle pellet interacting with an apple. Used the beautiful little 50mm Canon lens on this – pin sharp and costs around £85, excellent value for … Continue reading
As the weather is not going to play ball for deep-sky imaging I had planned on taking the definitive shot of an egg meeting an air rifle pellet. However – I had forgotten just how messy this business is, so … Continue reading
Today the CEO of NTE Poole Ltd. Eric Kennedy – brought me the all Aluminium pier for the mini-WASP! The usual beautiful craftsmanship and Aluminium-welding which are the hallmarks of NTE Poole Ltd. The wall thickness of that vertical tube is 1″ … Continue reading
April brings the Ursa Major/Canes Venatici objects into a good imaging position. Our Imaging Object of the Month this month is the interacting galaxy pair M51 known as the whirlpool galaxy. M51 lies 15 million light years away in the … Continue reading
I touched on the answer to this one earlier when I commented on the public’s misunderstanding of the use of Photoshop in image processing. To recap very briefly on the use of Photoshop in digital image processing deep-sky images, nothing is … Continue reading
I have seen a big jump in UK sales of Star Vistas over the last couple of days – absolutely no idea why. Maybe there’s been a review somewhere that I haven’t seen. Whatever the reason – enjoy!!
Simon Parkin presented the Meridian TV weather on March 10th around 6:30 p.m. and showed the beehive cluster image (Messier 44) taken just the night before from the New Forest Observatory 🙂 Noel Carboni processed the data as usual to … Continue reading
Noel Carboni has brought out a new PhotoShop plug-in that allows you to put “star spikes” on bright daytime objects as well as on stars in your deep-space images. Add an extra “zing” to you photographs of jewellery, or those … Continue reading
Today the New Forest Observatory website clocked up its 130,000th visitor. Next announcement when we hit 150,000 🙂
On a fairly regular basis (but probably NOT monthly) I shall be offering a “Print of the Month” at a significantly reduced price. This will be an A3 full colour, full-resolution print using HP Glossy 250g/m2 Advanced Photo Paper and the … Continue reading
