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Author Archives: Greg Parker
Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) – low winter Sun
Got today’s EPOD with a shadow self-portrait taken at mid-day near the winter solstice over the New Forest. Thank you Jim for continuing to show my work 🙂
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More Golden Solid angle stuff
Mr. Ray Girvan has kindly replicated my Golden Solid angle work from 2007 for others to see (with diagrams!) on his site. Ray states that he can see why the Mathematical Gazette might have been unimpressed by the Golden Solid angle … Continue reading
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M15 in Pegasus
Another recent capture from the New Forest Observatory processed by Noel Carboni (I don’t “do” globulars 🙂 Here is a nice wide field view of globular cluster M15 in the constellation Pegasus caught using the Hyperstar III and SXVF-M25C one-shot … Continue reading
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Caldwell 10 in Cassiopeia
Managed to get some good data on this open cluster in Cassiopeia – and please sit down – actually processed this one myself 🙂 A very nice region in Cassiopeia with two other open clusters also in the field of … Continue reading
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More on the Golden Solid angle and angles in general
I have asked some friends to put up the Golden Solid angle on their sites to try and find where this might occur in Nature. Some people in trying to help with a reply have gone astray with both the … Continue reading
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The Iris nebula in Cepheus – reloaded
Noel has just added some more data I recently took of the Iris nebula to our original image. Second data set added 15 x 15-minute subs to the original 3 hours and 45 minutes worth of 200 second subs – … Continue reading
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Messier object number 1 – the Crab Nebula in Taurus – a supernova remnant
This data was collected on January 8th 2010 (I have not imaged since then due to bad weather) and I went for this region not to get the Crab nebula (which I knew would be very small in the field … Continue reading
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Not IC2169
This is the second image from a while back that I took in the wrong place because the finder scope was off. This should have been IC2169 but is instead a region centred on RA 96.82 degrees DEC -12.99 degrees … Continue reading
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IC405 the Flaming Star nebula – reloaded
Noel Carboni has just re-processed an earlier image of ours – IC405 & IC410, the Flaming Star nebula and companion in the constellation Auriga. Auriga is sitting overhead right now during our crisp winter evenings and it is in a … Continue reading
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Low winter Sun
Went over the New Forest today between North Weirs and South Weirs and took this shadow self-portrait. It clearly illustrates just how low the Sun is at this time of the year – this photo was taken at around mid-day!! … Continue reading
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