Author Archives: Greg Parker

New Prime(s) found at the New Forest Observatory MegaNode computing facility

Yesterday – 2nd May 2017 – the DELL Quad Node number cruncher came up with a new Prime(s).  Don’t know how many digits or how many Primes yet until my “checker” reports in.  However a kind Admin ran the number … Continue reading

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Stereo View of Asteroid 2014 JO25

Is today’s EPOD – http://epod.usra.edu/blog/ Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work, and Dr. Brian May for creating the stereograph.  

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A rather pathetic attempt to re-write the history of astronomy.

I don’t know who kicked this meme off, but some dipstick Journalist ignorant in the history of astronomy started it a couple of years back, and successive dipstick Journalists have carried on being lazy and simply copying this crap. What … Continue reading

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Asteroid JO25 2014 captured on the miniWASP 200mm Canon prime lenses

As well as capturing asteroid JO25 2014 on the single Sky 90/M26C – I also managed to grab 16 subs on the two 200mm lenses with the Trius M26Cs. Sub number 12 (counting down from the top) is missing as … Continue reading

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Asteroid JO25 2014 annotated version

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Asteroid JO25 2014

I think somebody up there knew it was my Birthday today and kept a clear pocket of sky over the New Forest Observatory last night when the rest of the UK was under cloud cover. Here are 9 x 5-minute … Continue reading

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Courses & Image Purchases

If you would like to discuss courses, either existing or one tailor made for you, or you would like to discuss image purchasing, then please contact me on:                         … Continue reading

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A few ISS transits over the last week or so

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Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)

We are entering galaxy season and Leo is well placed for imaging. I took a very deep image of the Regulus region wanting to pick up the Leo I dwarf galaxy – and caught something else at the same time. … Continue reading

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Asteroids in Leo from last night

I saw on the Sky 6 that there were 3 bright asteroids in Leo, namely 16 Psyche, 29 Amphitrite and 62 Erato.  So when I processed the data this morning and only saw 2 I wondered what was wrong.  Checked … Continue reading

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