I purchased a good quality microscope for those (many) evenings that are unsuitable for deep-space imaging. The idea is to fit the Canon 40D to the microscope’s third eyepiece (it is a trinocular microscope) and take some photomicrographs – using … Continue reading
As mentioned in an earlier post, Parker Technology entered into an agreement with HighSpeedFlash dot com whereby HSF dot com could make and market Parker Technology’s design of HSF equipment. Parker Technology has now taken delivery of a set of … Continue reading
In this International Year of Astronomy, the New Forest Observatory is offering you a very special deal for 2009. You may purchase signed, (year) dated and numbered prints of comet Lulin for only £15 which includes U.K. postage and packing!!! Prints … Continue reading
Unexpectedly the clouds shifted for a few hours on Saturday 28th February 2009. I thought that I was going to completely miss comet Lulin with the appalling (imaging) weather we’ve had these last two months. However, someone was looking kindly … Continue reading
This Month’s special image is the open cluster M67 in the constellation Cancer. This beautiful open cluster is very often overlooked in favour of its close neighbour – the Beehive Cluster. So overlooked in fact that this image made Astronomy … Continue reading
Got my first view of comet Lulin tonight. Nothing special in binoculars, but looking quite nice with 3-minute subs on the Hyperstar. Will have to see what I managed to catch tomorrow 🙂
My son Adam Parker recently graduated with a degree in Journalism and has been writing articles for local newspaper, the Lyminton Times. In today’s edition there is an example of his work where he describes our recent visit to Sir … Continue reading
On 10th February 2009 Greg Parker, Adam Parker & Noel Carboni visited Sir Patrick at Farthings to present him with a joint-author signed copy of Star Vistas. Sir Patrick was in fine form and gave us the keys to his observatories … Continue reading
Noel Carboni flew in from Florida on February 6th to attend the Springer book-signing session on the 7th. All went well even though the Circle line wasn’t running that day as a last desperate act of sabotage. Plenty of UKAI … Continue reading
Good news yet again!! We got yesterday’s Earth Science Picture of the Day [EPOD] with that amazing variable star lying right next to open cluster NGC7789 in Cassiopeia. Thank you once again Jim for publishing our work 🙂
