These are not new pictures, but the first two somehow escaped being added to the gallery! 🙂 The first of the escaped images is a side-by-side comparison of the Andromeda Galaxy with and without the Milky Way stars. The second … Continue reading
Attempting to explain the operation of the simplest optical device known to man, was the practical demonstration in my Inaugural Lecture at the University of Southampton, which took place on May 18th 2005. The “Eureka” moment as the mirror’s ability … Continue reading
This was one of the very first “serious” astronomy books I bought when I first got the Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS. Initially, as I only used the Nexstar for observing, the title of this book seemed relevant to my needs – yes … Continue reading
So hot off the press this one’s burning 🙂 The data was captured on the 30th October 2007 and Noel managed to squeeze in the processing between a pile of other work he has at the moment, and produced this image. Awesome! Comet … Continue reading
Once again, I am about a month early with this object according to Walter Scott Houston’s “Deep-Sky Wonders”, but this is to make sure we get a nice long imaging time on this cluster in an evening. Everyone knows the … Continue reading
There will be a book signing for the Springer publication “Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images” by Greg Parker in Waterstones bookshop on the University of Southampton campus [Highfield Road] in November 2007. Keep watching this page for the time and date … Continue reading
The film “The Matrix” strikes a deep resonance with many people, so deep in fact that even respected scientists’ have asked the question, “Do we live in a Matrix Universe?” For those of you that haven’t seen the film, the … Continue reading
The time is 1.00 p.m. on Monday 15th October. A small package arrives, too small to be the huge coffee-table book (Cosmos by Giles Sparrow) I am expecting. What can it be? Opening up the cardboard sleeve out slides a small … Continue reading
We didn’t even know about this! Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) have chosen our image of the reflection nebulosity within the emission nebula in Cygnus. Here is what EPOD have to say: The constellation of Cygnus the Swan, … Continue reading
At the recent Starscape Exhibitions a common question was “how far away are these deep-sky objects?”. I gave a rough answer in terms of Light Years, and the questioner would walk away satisfied, but it was clear that they really … Continue reading
