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What’s the significance of 288888?  Just saw that the New Forest Observatory had that number of hits at 17:14 p.m. today 🙂  Keep visiting people, there’s always something new and exciting going on at the New Forest Observatory (except last … Continue reading

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M13 makes an appearance on Simon Parkin’s Meridian weather slot 20/05/2012

Another image from the New Forest Observatory appears on Simon Parkin’s Meridian Weather slot on Sunday 20th May 2012.  Video footage Copyright Meridian News & Weather.

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Annular Solar eclipse May 20th 2012

There will be an annular solar eclipse on May 20th (tomorrow!) – YAY!!!!!!!!  🙂 🙂 Unfortunately, for people in the U.K. it begins after Sunset – Boooh!!!!  🙁 🙁

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Momentous day today :)

After a great deal of grief and pain I have worked out how to collimate the mini-WASP Sky 90s and they are now both sorted 🙂 Fourth clear night in a row, and no Moon, so I am imaging the … Continue reading

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“Little Planet” images on Simon Parkin’s Meridian weather slot

Along with some very nice SuperMoon images – my two “Little Planet” images made an appearance on Simon Parkin’s Meridian weather slot – Tuesday 8th May 6:20 p.m. Video footage Copyright Meridian News & Weather.

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Every deep-sky imager knows that Full Moon = Clear skies

Except of course when the Full Moon  is a Super-Moon or Mega-Moon as it was this morning – then you get wall to wall cloud for 24-hours.

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Another Starlight Xpress M26C one-shot colour CCD for the NFO

I have ordered another Starlight Xpress M26C one-shot colour CCD – this time for the Hyperstar III.  Up until now I have been using the M25C on the Hyperstar III – a 6-Megapixel OSC giving me a 2.4 x 1.6 … Continue reading

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Ball-park pricing details added to the Image Agency page

It has been brought to my attention by people wishing to use my images in their advertising/promotion that there is no indication of the prices involved for image acquisition.  On the Image Agency page I have now added a pricing range … Continue reading

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Reincarnation of the Image of the Week starting June 2012

There will be a reincarnation of the “Image of the Week” staring in June 2012, but it is likely to start off being an “Image of the Month”.  I will stop posting an imaging target at the beginning of each … Continue reading

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Carbon star makes an appearance on Simon Parkin’s Meridian Weather 05/04/2012

Simon Parkin used the recent UU Aurigae Carbon star image to introduce his Meridian Weather slot on 05/04/2012 at 10:30 p.m. Video footage Copyright Meridian News & Weather 2012.

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