With something approaching 200 images in the Parker/Carboni portfolio I am often asked – “what are your top 5 favourite images?” Well, after quite a bit of thought on this one, and for reasons that go beyond the impact of … Continue reading
Yesterday the New Forest Observatory web site reached a truly massive 80,000 hits! It is interesting to note the most popular landing page from peoples’ searches. Have you any idea what it might be? Could it be “images of deep-space”, Star Vistas, … Continue reading
We have recently seen a big kick in sales of Star Vistas in America which seems to be due to the appearance of a mini-review in the July issue of Sky and Telescope written by Sean Walker 🙂 Thank you … Continue reading
As per usual – I do not image during June as not only are the nights too short, but also it never really gets dark enough to be able to take good quality images. However, having said that, I might … Continue reading
The satellite van is in sunny Brockenhurst right now and there’ll be a live broadcast from the New Forest Observatory tonight on the local Meridian News. We’re due to have a few days (and nights!) fine weather apparently, so I … Continue reading
Noel continues to turn them out 🙂 This time he has collated all of our previous data and skilfully combined the lot to give this wide field panorama of the M78 region in Orion. Noel has combined original Hyperstar RGB data … Continue reading
Noel has just completed the digital image processing of this one taken on Friday 23rd January 2009 from the New Forest Observatory. This is the nice open cluster M38 in Auriga with close-by smaller open cluster NGC1907. Some red emission … Continue reading
This image of M106 was acquired on Wednesday 1st April and Noel has recently processed it. I love the Mother-of-Pearl appearance of M106, it makes it one of my favourite galaxies. This region of Canes Venatici (lying below the handle of the Plough … Continue reading
Radio interview recorded in April 2009 A new local radio (webcast) station recently opened in Brockenhurst and Greg was invited along to talk about the New Forest Observatory. You can listen to the interview here 🙂 [media id=5 width=320 height=240]
For regular visitors it will not have escaped your notice that there haven’t been many new images posted so far this year. This is due to two factors. One – Noel has been very busy with other programming jobs and … Continue reading
