The name for this project comes from the Wide Angle Search for Planets or SuperWASP project. As you can guess it is used for hunting exo-planets. If you look at the SuperWASP site you will see an impressive imaging array comprising … Continue reading
No matter how many publications you have, a new publication is always exciting. The July 2007 issue of Sky at Night magazine is including our widefield M42 image on the cover CD-ROM. This image was taken with the Sky 90/SXVF-M25C combination. … Continue reading
Sir Arthur C Clarke sent Greg a tribute to Sir Patrick Moore on the occasion of his 50th Sky at Night anniversary with instructions to get it published where the astronomically-interested would see it (of course you can read the … Continue reading
We are on a roll, Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) have chosen our negative image of the Coma Berenices Galaxy Cluster as their picture today. Spring is definitely galaxy season for astronomers and we take advantage of it … Continue reading
In the June 2007 issue of Astronomy Now there is a 4 page article on the work that we have been doing (pages 28 – 31) titled “Picture Gallery Special – Greg Parker”. We are really, really happy and excited … Continue reading
I’m really pleased! We have made it in the June edition of the Sky at Night [“Hotshots”] with our widefield image of M67 (cropped). This was taken with the Sky90/SXVF-M25C combination. The uncropped version of this image made an Astronomy Picture … Continue reading
Great News! Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) have selected one of our pictures – the Wide Field Image of the Horsehead nebula as picture of day today. If you haven’t bookmarked the EPOD site then do it now! The … Continue reading
Sometimes one just gets lucky! I was invited to go to the 50th Anniversary Sky at Night Party which was held on the 25th April 2007 at Sir Patrick Moore’s house “Farthings” in Selsey. It was a great day, and at … Continue reading
Our deep image of M42 taken with the Sky 90/SXVF-M25C combination appears in the May 2007 edition of Practical Astronomer in the Readers Gallery on Page 61.
Our picture of M51 appears on page 48 under the article heading “Beginner’s Challenge: The spiral arms of M51. Our image of M13 and M101 also appear on the Messier Challenge Poster – these are all single frame Hyperstar/SXV-H9C images.
