New Forest Observatory clocked up its 40,000th hit this morning! A big welcome to all new and regular readers, and here’s hoping for some long, crisp, clear Winter evenings 🙂
Now that the Hyperstar III is going to be the main imager for some time to come, I have just made some system hardware changes. The (relatively) heavy Sky 90 has been removed as the guide scope and replaced with … Continue reading
Taken over several years this image is a composite of Hyperstar I, Sky 90 and Hyperstar III data.
This month I have chosen one of my all-time favourite objects, and one that I feel is a bit of an enigma. IC1396 is a huge emission nebula in Cepheus that doesn’t have a “popular” name. It contains the beautiful … Continue reading
The latest Parker/Carboni offering is the beautiful Iris nebula in the constellation Cepheus.
Acquired by Greg Parker at the New Forest Observatory and expertly processed by Noel Carboni in Florida U.S.A. the NFO proudly presents the whole of the North America nebula in high resolution and true colour.
As you are all aware – we didn’t have a summer this year, so the “summer” mega-project for 2008 has been making incredibly slow progress. I managed to get out on the evening of 19th September to grab 3 more … Continue reading
I don’t do planets, or the Moon, as my deep-sky setup is not geared up for these. However, last night’s Moon prompted me into action.
Here is an aerial view of the NFO. The house on the end where the road bends round is home to the NFO, and you can see the dome as a white circle at the bottom of the garden.
I now realise that the initial case I considered – a page of text facing a mirror with the page parallel to the mirror – was a very special, and very restrictive case – so it wasn’t really the best … Continue reading
