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
There was a big surge in sales of Star Vistas in America just over a week ago, and over this weekend in Canada. This corresponds to the release of the Star Vistas review in the American publication Sky & Telescope. … Continue reading
The Great Globular Cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules is pretty well known to all who scan the Northern Hemisphere skies. It is probably the most beautiful globular cluster in the Northern Hemisphere both visually, and for imaging. This is … Continue reading
We have now acquired 50% of the entirely new image portfolio for inclusion in Star Vistas II 🙂 I estimate that the full set of images for the next publication will be completed late 2009, early 2010. If you liked … Continue reading
Sir Patrick Moore hosted one of his legendary St. George’s Day parties from his Selsey home. The camera-shake was real as he wielded his Sword of St. George with a little too much enthusiasm 🙂
I’ve been kicking my heels waiting for a clear night since hearing of the new supernova in NGC 4088 a few days back. By some miracle I have a clear Moonless night tonight (18th April 2009) and I’m locked on … Continue reading
