Things got rather hair-raising at the New Forest Observatory last night with a display like I haven’t seen in over 10 years. Needless to say the picture was taken from indoors as it was just too scary to work outside … Continue reading
For the very first time, the New Forest Observatory is offering a portfolio of deep-sky fine art images. There are 3 portfolios on offer, a 5-pack, a 10-pack, and a 12-pack. All images are printed on A4 HP Premium Plus … Continue reading
You should be able to guess from the last few entries that there haven’t been any clear nights 🙁 No different tonight – but at least I’ll stay on topic 🙂 This is some DSS2 data of the Pleiades region … Continue reading
As I rapidly leave middle-age and note the ever increasing loss of elasticity of the skin on the back of my hands I become acutely aware of my DNA’s inability to perfectly replicate. Enter Deinococcus radiodurans – a polyextremophile bacterium, … Continue reading
The Government would like to spend £50 billion of your money on a new high speed rail link. How would you prefer 50 nuclear reactors spread around the country and free electricity for the rest of your life? Free electricity … Continue reading
This is another non-astronomical rant, although it does concern our planet – so if you don’t like these posts – read no further. In my 59 years on this planet I have never given any money to charity – until … Continue reading
Here are the ones you missed from earlier on – the First and Second Light images from the amazing Canon EF 200mm prime lens. Initially I went for the Double Cluster and Stock 2 region: And then I spent a … Continue reading
I have not been able to post images to this site for a while as an “upgrade” completely screwed things up for me. Fortunately Dave Parker was able to unravel the damage caused by me upgrading one of the plug-ins … Continue reading
I recently bought a Canon 200mm prime lens to go onto the 5D MkII for some very wide field work. Last night was completely clear so that was first light, and second light, for the lens. Firstly I went for … Continue reading
Still no Moon and still plenty of cloud – you just can’t win. Got a nice shot of the 4-minute ISS pass around 11:06 p.m. which you can see here. Also managed to get 4 meteors, but the images are … Continue reading
