I was doing a bit of self-Googling, as you do (sorry Vicar) when up popped the Grokipedia article (link below). Now for about 10-seconds I thought this was going to be nothing more than my Wiki page with a bit … Continue reading
This week we go back to an astroimage. A very widefield of one of my favourite starfield regions – the Caph region of Cassiopeia. This image also captures my favourite open-cluster NGC7789, I call this the open cluster that thinks … Continue reading
This week we feature a High-Speed image of a pair of eggs being shot by an air rifle. You can just see the pellet to the far left of the image frozen in flight. I was inspired to take this … Continue reading
This week we show a micrograph of a Dragonfly eye. But it takes quite a bit of work to put an image like this together. The image is captured using a Canon 5D MkII DSLR camera attached to a research … Continue reading
Today is the first day I have had the ELEGOO Neptune 4 Plus and the tiny (in comparison) ANET A6 printing at the same time. The Neptune is print out (yet another) Sierpinski pyramid, and the A6 is having a … Continue reading
This week’s picture of the week is a macrophoto of the “Eye” region on the underside of an Owl Butterfly’s wing. The image was captured using a Canon 5D MkII DSLR and a Canon 100mm macro-lens.
This week we feature a Lunar Halo captured one cold evening at the New Forest Observatory, with Jupiter making a cameo appearance.
Pictures of the Week beginning January 4th 2026 will include ALL images captured at the New Forest Observatory – not just astronomy images. In this image we have a pair of Buzzards soaring over the New Forest Observatory in a … Continue reading
Got out a couple of nights back to fire up the 200mm lenses and the 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras. If you remember in the last outing it looked like there might be water vapour in the optical system. So in … Continue reading
For the Christmas week we feature my favourite Christmas period star. The mighty Sirius!!!
