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Author Archives: Greg Parker
Transit of Mercury animation
I spent 7 hours behind a monitor yesterday downloading SDO data of the Mercury transit every 15-minutes. I put all the SDO data together to give this very short animation.
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Astronomy Image of the Day
O.K. it looks like there is enough interest out there to make a start on this one 🙂 Please send your best image through to greg@newforestobservatory.com in jpeg format. Please DO NOT send through a full resolution image, although it … Continue reading
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Astronomy Image of the Day – Greg Parker
This post is to give you an idea how your picture and your name (in lights) will appear if you submit an image to to AIOD. Click on the image to see a larger version in a new window. This … Continue reading
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A selection of mares’ tails
Over the New Forest Observatories this evening:
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The Caldwell 3 region in Draco
Beautiful clear Moonless night last night but we only get astronomical darkness starting around 11 p.m. so it’s a late start at this time of the year (and darkness ends around 3 p.m. so you don’t get many hours of … Continue reading
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Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) – Spica, the brightest, bluest star in the sky
Got today’s EPOD with an image of Spica (Akira fujii effect added) which is timely as Spica is right now crossing our southern horizon on these mild spring evenings. Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work … Continue reading
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The Virgo/Coma galaxy supercluster
12 frames using the Hyperstar III and M25C camera with 2-hours of 10-minute subs per frame. Also a 200mm lens with M26C camera 2-framer using 15-minute subs and 5 hours per frame. So total integration time is 34 hours 🙂
Use of my images
Could I please re-iterate: None of my images are available “free of charge”. Please take a moment to look at the “Image Agency and Copyright Notice” section. Thank you.
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Greg’s Lambda/Lambda
Here is the Epsilon Cassiopeiae region in Cassiopeia – and to the middle left you can see a very clear Lambda, together with a much smaller and fainter Lambda.
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The 100th Monkey Effect – and Science
The 100th monkey effect, which may not be an effect at all, is about non-physical communication of data. The original 100th monkey effect supposedly started with a single monkey, in a group of monkeys on an isolated island, who discovered … Continue reading
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