A two-framer of the Arcturus region using the Canon 200mm lenses on the miniWASP array. Image flattened using Noel Carboni’s new flattening tool – soon to be released.
There are no hours of darkness in the southern UK right now – but going out to a beautiful clear sky last night – I just had to take a piccie. This is a 6-second exposure at ISO800 with the … Continue reading
Check out the You Tube video of last night’s 10 p.m. ISS pass here. Mute the audio when playing.
This is part of last night’s 5-minute ISS pass that started around 11:33 p.m. Earlier in the day I had seen a load of cloud coming in from the West that I thought would give me complete cloud cover by … Continue reading
Last night – 31/05/2017, 10:49 p.m. – from the New Forest Observatory. Another long 6-minute pass of the International Space Station. I think this is the longest pass I have managed to image with the 15mm fisheye lens so far.
Went out half an hour before a 6-minute ISS pass last night to set up and caught a pair of satellites flaring – could be USA229 and associated debris. I then imaged the main event of the evening, a lovely … Continue reading
I just finished painting the South Dome’s decking which finishes the Spring cleaning of the two dome’s for this year. The South Dome has just had a re-injection of life for the Hyperstar III with the addition of a 9-Megapixel … Continue reading
OK – so things are now getting very interesting indeed here in the UK. Just a few weeks before a rather important General Election, Theresa May announces that she wants to bring back Fox hunting. No, this is not fake … Continue reading
If you had clear skies, you may have noticed last night that Jupiter was very close to the 12-day old Moon. This image has a fisheye view of the scene over the New Forest Observatories and inset there is a … Continue reading
So the Prime Number the MegaNode computing facility just found has now been confirmed – it is: 3438759891285*2^1290000-1 Which is 388,342 digits long and is in the top 5,000 largest primes. I just ran the numbers through Mathematica to see … Continue reading
