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
A couple of nights ago conditions were perfect for imaging – freezing cold, crystal clear, and no Moon to worry about. Excellent! I am going to get a ton of data on little NGC1333 in Perseus. I do a two-star … Continue reading
I opened up the pinhole cameras a couple of days early just in case they were set in the wrong position, and also to check if the wettest November on record had made its mark. One pinhole camera unfortunately DID … Continue reading
On Sunday 20th December 2009 I will open up the two pinhole cameras on my south-facing wall, remove the exposed film, and replace with two new sheets of film. I will then leave the cameras open from 21st December 2009 … Continue reading
Terry Pratchett only had 6 monitors fitted to his computer as he couldn’t get 8 on his desk 🙂 O.K. well I didn’t want 8 or even 6 monitors – I only wanted 3. Looking at the graphics cards offered … Continue reading
Poor weather conditions (high cloud/fog/mist) sub-zero temperatures and a very unimpressive display of Geminids this year – even though we were blessed with NO MOON!!! Set up the Canon 40D with a 17-55mm zoom lens set to 30mm, 2-minute subs, … Continue reading
