We had an extremely rare clear and Moonless night last night – the stars were superb. Hard decision time – what do I do? Do I spend a great viewing evening on getting the Hyperstar III back up and running, … Continue reading
As you know I like number theory and if I find something really interesting I’ll post it up here on the NFO site. I was flicking through Arthur C Clarke’s “Ascent to Orbit” yesterday when I came across a mathematical … Continue reading
A number of people have asked me how many stars appear in the Cocoon nebula 3-frame mosaic. I use a program called Registar to link separate frames together so I can see how they all fit – and Registar will … Continue reading
As it continues to pour with rain here in the New Forest – thoughts go back to the hot, dry days at the Starmus Festival in Tenerife June this year 🙂
September may be the beginning of decent long evenings but wall to wall cloud doesn’t make for many images 🙁
As it was cloudy AND a bright Moon last night it was no good for deep-sky imaging – but as it wasn’t actually raining – and I could see a FEW stars, it was an opportunity to take the AstroTrac … Continue reading
My Algol and Rho Persei image is “Picture of the Week” on the My Astro Space web site – thanks guys 🙂
I hadn’t realised that the First Light image I took with the mini-WASP was also this month’s IOM and was also my first APOD. Let’s hope this lot is a good omen for the future of the mini-WASP array 🙂
This is the view from my study on this blistering hot Wednesday – it’s now coming up to 5:00 p.m. and it’s still too hot to do anything sensible indoors or outdoors. Managed to fit a solid-state magnetic compass in … Continue reading
Tom spent another full action-packed day at the New Forest Observatory helping out with the monumental IT problems and getting all the bits together for a computer-controlled stepper-motor-powered dome rotator. All very impressive stuff and mostly well beyond me – … Continue reading
