I said that Garik Israelian had assembled an unbelievable lineup of mega-celebrities! What do you make of this then? On the left we have Bill Anders, Apollo8 astronaut who had just given a talk on “Early American Space Program”. In … Continue reading
Yes that really is Neil Armstrong – the first man on the Moon – and he was at the Starmus Festival speaking! The Starmus Festival was created by Garik Israelian who managed to attract an amazing lineup of World Famous … Continue reading
More observatory heaven on the Teide Observatories site.
A panoramic view of some Observatories taken at the Teide site.
This is the first of a huge database of images I have to process from the Starmus week – they shall be appearing in no particular order, and this will take weeks, especially when I take all day to mow … Continue reading
Just got back from 8 days on Tenerife attending the Starmus Festival – what an experience!! I will relate all the happenings over the next few weeks on this site – but here’s something to whet your appetites 🙂 Apart … Continue reading
The “Last Post” guys did a really great job on the octagonal decking, fast, precise and accurate. A really excellent job and I’m very pleased with the result. So I now have a 12-foot wide octagonal deck ready and waiting … Continue reading
Today the decking experts from “The Last Post” arrived first thing to get on with the octagonal deck build. They came armed with the most formidable piece of sawing kit I’ve seen – but boy does it cope with the … Continue reading
Just a couple of weeks to go to the Starmus Festival! Not too late to book into what will be the unique astronomical event of 2011 🙂 See you there.
I used to post images other than just deep-sky work on this site. You may have noticed a recent lack of macros/panoramas/photomicroscopy here on the New Forest Observatory web site. That is because all non-astro images now appear on my … Continue reading
