Another 6-minute long ISS pass from last night. The earlier 21:41 pass was completely clouded out.
On the night of the blue supermoon (31st July) I looked out of the window to see the ISS passing over the Moon (so I missed a great photo-opportunity) around 10:00 p.m. I hadn’t been keeping an eye on the … Continue reading
Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) is the large DSS2 data mosaic I put together of the Tulip nebula region in Cygnus. DSS2 data was downloaded (red and blue channels) and Noel Carboni’s actions were used to create … Continue reading
Taken at 8:25 p.m. on 26/07/2015 this image shows a double rainbow over the New Forest Observatories – and more. This morning I pushed up the contrast and saturation of the image to take a better, closer look at the … Continue reading
Last night, for the first time since I put it together, I have been able to use the 2 x Canon 200mm lenses (and M26C Trius cameras) as intended. The whole idea with this rig was to get two horizontal … Continue reading
I have just assembled this DNA model that comes from Cochrane’s of Oxford. It is extremely well thought out and the instructions for assembly are quite excellent given the complexity of the thing being put together. When I first saw … Continue reading
The Licence Agreement between Laserscribe Ltd. and Parker Technology was formally terminated on 01/07/2015. If you wish to purchase custom built high speed electronic flash equipment contact Prof. Greg Parker at Parker Technology.
You too can make your own full-colour, high-resolution, deep-space images, just like the Tulip nebula mega-mosaic below – and you don’t even need to own a telescope. However, you do need a copy of Photoshop and a copy of Noel … Continue reading
I have been putting together a full-colour mega-mosaic of the Tulip nebula region in Cygnus using the wonderful DSS2 data. As this is a pretty huge mosaic you can imagine the dataset was getting a bit unwieldy – and in … Continue reading
The recent 200mm/M26C data composited reasonably well with earlier 200mm/M25C data. Unfortunately one camera was in portrait mode and the other in landscape mode – so I only got the overlapping square bit in the middle 🙁
