Last night there were some breaks in the cloud and it was also unusually mild. So I took the 40D outside on the tripod (I should have taken the TT320 as well but I wasn’t thinking straight yesterday for reasons … Continue reading
The good news continues! Noel & I have just got the Astropic of the Week on the International Year of Astronomy website. It is the iconic Belt region of Orion. Thank you Steve for putting our image onto a well-viewed … Continue reading
Great news for Greg & Noel – our image of La Superba has made it onto the APOD [Astronomy Picture of the Day] site for December 18th 2008!!!!!! This image was taken over 2 evenings using the Sky 90/SXVF-M25C combo, … Continue reading
To start off the International Year of Astronomy we are really pleased to announce that our 2-frame mosaic of the Belt region of Orion made a 2-page spread in the January 2009 edition of Astronomy Now 🙂 Covering pages 24 … Continue reading
Greatly missed, Sir Arthur C Clarke, who wrote a Foreword for Star Vistas, would have been 91 today. We miss you and will continue to look for you “out there” 🙁
Finally – the boss has decreed that it will be the Rosette nebula that graces the dining-room wall until Spring 2009, when it will be replaced by the Pleiades. Sounds good to me 🙂
This is how a framed image of the Pleaides looks in the dining-room. The boss reckons this will be the Summer image.
It is well-known that a builder never works on his own house. Likewise, for some unknown reason, I have never mounted framed pictures of my images on the walls of my house – even though I have a dozen framed prints … Continue reading
Our Dark Skies (ODS) is the forum where I first met up with Noel Carboni. You can pre-order your copy of Star Vistas through the ODS site here.
The piece on the forthcoming publication of Star Vistas appeared on Meridian Evening News on Wednesday 10th December 2008. You can visit the Meridian News web site and view the programme now.
