As it has not been imaging weather recently I have had a lot of time to both look over old images in more detail and to process a few old images that never got looked at in the first place. … Continue reading
I saw the “hits” counter was approaching the 250,000 mark a couple of days ago – and there, this morning it had just surpassed the magic quarter of a million 🙂 Please keep regularly visiting the New Forest Observatory site … Continue reading
Opened up the pinhole camera today (the day before the Winter Solstice) after another 6-month exposure imaging the Sun crossing my southern horizon. This time I used a FLAT film in the camera (which was an old tea caddy) rather … Continue reading
Just a reminder that the New Forest Observatory site now only shows astronomical images and all those other images that I used to post here such as macros, micros, high-speed flash and mathematical objects, can now be found on my … Continue reading
On December 1st 2011 Greg was made Emeritus Professor of Photonics at the University of Southampton 🙂
Having sat here for an hour or so not believing I could possibly have bleached all the colour out of Capella in the imaging I decided to reprocess the image from scratch and got this result. O.K. so that’s a … Continue reading
I imaged Capella at f10 a few nights back with the C11 (still not collimated the camera to the scope properly, but will work on it) and got a nice bright yellow star with a pretty boring background. O.K. so … Continue reading
Steve Collingwood (Telescope House, Lingfield, Sussex) kindly spent a not inconsiderable amount of time collimating my 2 Sky 90 refractors. Steve showed me the process as he worked away on his custom-built rig. All very impressive and now I … Continue reading
Although it is the beginning of the long darks nights this month, and if only the weather played ball you could be imaging from about 5:30 p.m. on – November is a completely frustrating month as you never seem to … Continue reading
I so thoroughly enjoyed the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson that I bought his biography of Einstein. I have already read “Einstein Lived Here” by Pais, and “Albert Einstein Philosopher-Scientist” by Schilpp. Isaacson’s biography (so far, only 100 pages … Continue reading
