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Author Archives: Greg Parker
Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)
It the recent Winter Solstice 2015 to Summer Solstice 2016 Solargraph. I think I had the tilt angle towards the Zenith a little too large for this one 🙁 Never mind, you still get the general overall picture 🙂 Thank … Continue reading
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EPOD ENCORE – Six Months of Tracking the Sun Across the Sky
Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day is a pinhole camera Solargraph of the Sun’s path across my southern horizon from Summer Solstice (June 21st) until Winter Solstice (December 21st) 2010. An EPOD Encore is showing an earlier EPOD that … Continue reading
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The California nebula
I have only just stacked ALL the data on this one from late 2014. This is 69 subs using 15.20-minute exposures for a total of 22-hours on this one. The Sky 90 array on the mini-WASP. f#4.5 3 x Sky … Continue reading
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Beehive Cluster in Perspective
Got today’s Earth Science Picture of Today with that recent wide field of M44, the Beehive Cluster, taken with the Canon 200mm lenses on the mini-WASP rig. I am particularly fond of this image as it is something I have … Continue reading
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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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