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
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 🙂
