Nice bright sunny morning on this first day of the New Year – and this guy was out enjoying the weak winter rays: Not sure why the image of the month hasn’t popped up this morning – we are looking … Continue reading
First of all Happy New Year to you all! I won’t say let’s hope for better imaging weather this coming year as so far it hasn’t been anything to write home about. Moving on. This month’s Imaging Object of the … Continue reading
I have just purchased some incredibly powerful registration software called Registar. I played with the free download version for a few days before deciding I couldn’t live without this one and bought it today 🙂 It is really useful to … Continue reading
Here is a short clip from the Meridian weather forecast from December 28th 2009. Copyright Meridian TV.
I believe that the Cone nebula and Christmas Tree cluster will feature on tonight’s Meridian weather. Keep an eye out around 6:45 p.m. 🙂
Yesterday, following publication of our Gamma Cass and friends image on Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) – the New Forest Observatory (NFO) site got 4,341 visits!! Usual daily visit rate is around 150. Such is the power of APOD … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Noel!!! Looking forward to even more great collaborative images for 2010 🙂 Hopefully by the summer we’ll be working on data from the mini-WASP array – that’ll set the cat amongst the pigeons 🙂
The surge of hits from our recent APOD has now pushed the number of hits on our site to over 110,000!! Great way to be ending 2009 🙂 A couple of hours later and we’re now over 111,000 hits 🙂 … Continue reading
And to follow on from yesterday’s EPOD, Noel & I managed to get today’s APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day). This time it’s the Gamma Cassiopeia nebulosity and Gamma Cas itself in a wide field image taken using the C11/Hyperstar … Continue reading
Great news! Noel & I managed to get today’s EPOD with a festive Christmas Tree cluster and cone nebula shot (EPOD have the picture upside down at the moment – but I’ve told Jim so it might turn up the … Continue reading
