A new Copyright Notice can be found in the Image Gallery section of this web site.
Simon Perkin shows the recent IC2169 image taken at the New Forest Observatory on his weather slot on ITV’s Meridian Weather. See the video footage here. Video is Copyright Meridian News & Weather.
With the recent glut of images due to the perfect conditions these last two evenings I have now surpassed 200 deep-sky images acquired at the New Forest Observatory since winter 2004 🙂 Champers time methinks.
The Sunday Telegraph on 26th February 2012 will contain a colour glossy brochure of deep-sky objects produced with Astronomy Now magazine – and judging by the cover it will contain a few of my images 🙂 Be sure to order your copy … Continue reading
I recently gave a talk in Lymington on photography in general (not just the deep-sky stuff). A number of people asked about purchasing images – and the price. Go to “Image Gallery” click on “owning” or “purchasing” and you will … Continue reading
View to my south – tree lit up by the street lights. Why Aldebaran is blue but Betelgeuse is the correct colour I have no idea.
I just found some old unprocessed Hyperstar III data from 17th April 2010 and got on and processed it this afternoon 🙂 This is the Markarian Chain of galaxies in Virgo, and everything that is not obviously a star is … Continue reading
There is a bright Moon overhead and tons of thin high cloud – no good for imaging but perfect for getting the Hyperstar tuned up again 🙂 Managed to focus train and collimate the Hyperstar to better than ever before … Continue reading
Took this image with the Canon 5D MkII around 7:20 p.m. on Monday 2nd January 2012. Here we have a very nice lunar halo and close to the Moon at around 7 O’clock we have Jupiter too. But there’s a … Continue reading
Happy New Year to you all 🙂 My log book confirms that 2011 was the worst year, weather-wise, for imaging since I started this lark. Not too surprising I guess with the groundbreaking mini-WASP array being this year’s mega-project. I … Continue reading
