In order to keep my hand in the HSF world, I will be making a batch of high-speed flash units that will be available early 2016. Talking to a number of professional users I have decided that the specification for … Continue reading
Please look under the “Courses” heading for a brand new course available from today. This is the “I have been given a telescope for Christmas and I don’t know what to do with it” course. Get up to speed with … Continue reading
Another nice long 6-minute ISS pass tonight at 10:04 p.m. As you can see, there was thin high cloud about which thickened considerably – so no imaging for me tonight 🙁
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
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
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
