Author Archives: Greg Parker

M105, M95, M96 Hyperstarred

Posted on March 20, 2026 by Greg Parker

Extremely lucky it was clear again last night – BUT – unfortunately there was thin high cloud so this isn’t as good an image as it could have been. Hyperstar4 and M2600MC Pro 23 subs at 4-minutes per sub, dithered … Continue reading →

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You’d Better be Sitting Down

Posted on March 19, 2026 by Greg Parker

A clear Moonless night last night, so I fired up the Hyperstar. After focusing and running CCDCalc I found I had perfect collimation! I’m not arguing – I just went straight to the best looking bit of sky to give … Continue reading →

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Picture of the Week

Posted on March 15, 2026 by Greg Parker

This week’s POW featured as an EPOD (Earth Science Picture of the Day). Here we see a macrophoto of a Sunflower seed-head on the left, and on the right we see a simulation of the seed-head produced using the Mathcad … Continue reading →

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Picture of the Week

Posted on March 8, 2026 by Greg Parker

This week we feature a selection of 3D prints from the old (and now retired) ANET A6 which performed superbly for many years.

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Picture of the Week

Posted on March 1, 2026 by Greg Parker

Back to astronomy this week with an image of the Witch’s Broom nebula in Cygnus. This is not my data but data given to me by a lecturer at Brockenhurst College. He got professional narrowband data – Ha Hb and … Continue reading →

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Picture of the Week

Posted on February 22, 2026 by Greg Parker

Back over the New Forest again this week with one of my favourites. I call them Highlanders (after the film) but they are Highland cattle. They look pretty formidable, but they don’t give visitors a second glance.

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Indistinguishable from Magic

Posted on February 21, 2026 by Greg Parker

My Dad was out in the Northwest Frontier in WWI doing plate photography! I have just a few surviving images that were transferred to photographic paper as the hundreds of plates he had were all destroyed when my parents were … Continue reading →

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Controlled Nuclear Fusion

Posted on February 20, 2026 by Greg Parker

If you look on YouTube you will see a lot of recent hype on the progress in controlled nuclear fusion reactors. Without seeing progress I guess the funding would soon dry up, call me cynical. The first nuclear fusion experiment … Continue reading →

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Picture of the Week

Posted on February 15, 2026 by Greg Parker

Back to non-astro pics this week with birds that you often hear over the New Forest in summer, but rarely see as they like to hide in the gorse. This is a lovely pair of Stonechats and you know they’re … Continue reading →

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High-Resolution A1 Print of the Sombrero Galaxy Courtesy of Hubble

Posted on February 13, 2026 by Greg Parker

I just saw an image of the Sombrero galaxy taken by Hubble on X. Prompted me to download the highest resolution image I could find and print it out at A1 size on the HP Designjet T230. Here is the … Continue reading →

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