The recent North America nebula image taken using the mini-WASP array made an appearance on tonight’s Meridian Weather programme courtesy of Simon Parkin 🙂 Thank you Simon for continuing to show images taken at the New Forest Observatory. Video footage … Continue reading
Registar allows you to do a star count on an image. I have no idea how accurate (or not) this is, but it’s a bit of fun to run it on some of the “Milky Way” images, and here’s what … Continue reading
A fellow forumite said he couldn’t see where to post his “Deep-Sky Image of the Week” to. And on looking back at my posts I can see why it’s not easy to see 🙂 So – here it is – … Continue reading
I shall be posting deep-sky images sent in by dedicated amateur imagers (Worldwide) early on a Monday morning. Well I won’t do it personally in real time, I’ll write it up beforehand and schedule it 🙂 The very first image … Continue reading
This is the new Deep-Sky Image of the Week page and your opportunity to show the best of your work to a large audience. The New Forest Observatory site is rapidly approaching a quarter of a million visits and new … Continue reading
Sorry – but there’s a bit of a rant coming up – you have been warned. The last straw for me was today’s (29/09/2011) APOD of the Cocoon – I felt quite ill seeing that one first thing in the … Continue reading
It’s been completely clear here for most of today so I was looking forward to another night of superb deep-sky imaging on the mini-WASP array. Still clear at 7:30 p.m. but too light to start work. Look outside at 8:20 … Continue reading
Having now read around this one a little I am very pleased to report that this isn’t as trivial a problem as getting the correct distance between source and detector. It’s actually far worse than that 🙂 This is a … Continue reading
Having had the little rant below I can hardly believe I read in yesterday’s Daily Mail (only just picked it up today) that CERN Physicists think they might have seen neutrinos clocking up velocities greater than light. And once again … Continue reading
From the rather short title you may guess this is going to get to be a bit of a rant – at least it’s based on things astronomical. I am getting asked stupid questions by a number of people (who … Continue reading
