Great News! I’m giving a talk at the 3rd Appleton Space Conference which is being held at the Rutherford Appleton Lab on the 6th December 2007. My subject is “Astronomy from Home”. Unfortunately, the conference isn’t open to the public but … Continue reading
When I originally bought the Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector way back in April-May 2002, I did so because it could use the highly innovative Hyperstar lens, and at that time there was no Meade equivalent. The Hyperstar is … Continue reading
I thought I’d talk about techniques and show how some of the techniques used to create our deep-sky astroimages can be used in terrestrial photography as well. For example, the two images of North Weirs in the New Forest (just … Continue reading
Wow! We have had our image of the Holmes Comet selected for the Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)! Here is what they say about the image: The photo above shows an emerald glow surrounding the nucleus of Comet Homes, … Continue reading
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
