I had a great evening in Clanfield last night with the Hampshire Astronomical Group who made me [the wife and the dog] most welcome. If you are invited along by HAG to give a talk, I can highly recommend you … Continue reading
I am giving a seminar to the Hampshire Astronomical Group at the Clanfield Memorial Hall tonight at 7.45 p.m. You will be able to purchase signed copies of “Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images” at a reduced rate. See you there 🙂
It is clear the way my time is going that I am never going to complete my book “Game Over” which describes the end of our computer generated “reality”.
Noel Carboni is putting the finishing touches to Star Vistas as this post goes out, and he created this deep-space masterpiece from a collection of old NFO data. The appropriately named Heart Nebula is a favourite target for Northern-Hemisphere amateur astroimagers.
This image was taken later in the evening on the 6th May, just before Mercury got lost in the purple mush at the bottom of the picture.
A nice astrophoto-opportunity arose on the 6th May 2008 – in the twilight sky, beautiful Mercury lay very close to a new Moon. In a big departure from my normal astrophotography – I took the accompanying image with the Canon … Continue reading
There are a superb pair of galaxies that are ideally positioned during May for imaging, and I find myself drawn back to them year after year. The galaxies are M81, also known as Bode’s galaxy and M82, also known as … Continue reading
Well our definitive version of M31 with all the added H-alpha made Picture of the Month in the May 2008 issue of Astronomy Now. Thank you Nik Szymanek for the very nice accompanying write-up 🙂
A couple of weeks ago I imaged La Superba – a carbon star in Canes Venatici. This is only 11 subs at 6-minutes per sub, but you can just make out a few interesting faint fuzzies in the background. I … Continue reading
The New Forest Observatory makes an appearance in Scientific Computing World this month. Thank you Felix Grant for producing a very informative article.
