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Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) for today

Today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day is my 2-frame narrowband + RGB image of the Veil nebula in Cygnus. Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work 🙂  

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Blatant attempt at extortion!!!

How extraordinary!! I just got an e-mail from a book publisher friend who had just received a nasty e-mail from a Photo Library wanting payment for an image of the Pleiades shown on the cover of one of his books. … Continue reading

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Check out today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)

Got today’s EPOD with the inverse nova R Coronae Borealis 🙂 See the animation here. Many thanks Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.

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R Coronae Borealis

As there has only been one imaging night for the whole of October 2015 I have had to look for other things to get on with. I took a Sky 90 image of the R Coronae Borealis (RCrB) region in … Continue reading

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Definitive Kemble’s Cascade

I used Registar to put together all the best images I had of Kemble’s Cascade – and this is the result 🙂

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New high-speed flash units for early 2016 – light pulse duration 25-microseconds, light pulse energy 100 Joules.

Further to my earlier post below, I have upgraded the spec as I will be using a different capacitor for these custom units. The spec now reads:  Light output power 100 Joules. Light pulse duration 25-microseconds (1/40,000th of a second). … Continue reading

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The New Forest Observatory is now a Registered Trademark

You will see from the new Title on the Main Page that the New Forest Observatory is now a Registered Trademark 🙂

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The “Science Gate” at the New Forest Observatory

Two very nice people turned up completely unannounced to see the New Forest Observatory.  As they had come all the way from the States it would have been churlish to say no 🙂  You can read their story here under … Continue reading

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For Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks took a drug cocktail trying to see the colour Indigo.  Wish he had talked to me before he passed on as I might have been able to help by putting the appropriate RGB values into Photoshop as in … Continue reading

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OK BBC the joke has now gone too far

At this very moment I have the BBC2 Horizon programme about multiverses on. They are taking complete and utter garbage to an entirely new level. The lisping female narrator is really the icing on the cake.  Absolutely nothing wrong with … Continue reading

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