And to finish off yesterday’s theme I just had to try to capture the action when a 0.22″ air rifle pellet says hello to a raw egg – or two. Note the pellet exiting stage left in the first image!
From one extreme to the other 🙂 Some of my longest total exposure times in astrophotography exceed 60 hours!! At the other end of the scale I also carry out high-speed photography using flash equipment that kicks out 9 microsecond … Continue reading
This Month’s imaging object is a rather beautiful globular cluster in the constellation Sagitta – M71. The nice bright star towards the top left in the image below is Gamma Sagitta, and M71 lies mid way between Gamma and Delta … Continue reading
Although I am still imaging in inner space, at least the latest venture has an astro-imaging application. I have just purchased Noel Carboni’s Fractal Sharpening tool which works with Genuine Fractals (also purchased at the same time) and Adobe Photoshop. … Continue reading
O.K. so it’s not a deep-sky image as we are still suffering zero length evenings in June – but that doesn’t stop me capturing digital images of the wildlife surrounding the New Forest Observatory. This little guy was caught this … Continue reading
I have been playing around again with the microscope and Helicon Focus. Now although this is not deep-sky imaging, a lot of the data collection and data processing is very similar to deep-sky work. First of all you need to … Continue reading
Fred Clarke (Arthur C Clarke’s brother who lives in the S.W. of England) has two copies of Star Vistas destined to go into a new museum Fred is creating to house Sir Arthur C Clarke’s work. When Sir Arthur kindly … Continue reading
Within the last week there has been two large surges in sales of Star Vistas in the U.K. and one large surge in sales in the States. We are not sure what caused these sudden increases in sales (a review … Continue reading
It was while putting together my top 10 that I realised there had been a serious omission! I have not put up the definitive Horsehead and Belt region of Orion on the NFO site, although it had appeared way back … Continue reading
It was extremely difficult to pick a top 5 and a number of images were very close runners up. In places 6 to 10 I put the following:
