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