I have just hung the 5-foot wide framed image of the Cocoon nebula region in the dining room. It looks awesome 🙂
Does have its advantages 🙂 This is the best time of the year for me with all the new foals, and the garden full of newly fledged birds.
Why would immortality be granted to jellyfish of all things?
Today I removed the Sky 90 from the C11 and replaced it with a little Celestron refractor that I use as a guide scope. The Hyperstar III has once again been fitted to the C11 for some phenomenally fast (f#2) … Continue reading
Huge thanks go to Terry Platt and Michael Hattey of Starlight Xpress Ltd who made me a deal I simply could not refuse on imaging cameras, a guide camera, and filter wheels. Thank you for sponsoring the mini-WASP project guys … Continue reading
Here are the two sets of narrowband filters from Ian King Imaging. The filters in separate boxes are the H-Beta filters – those in the set of 3 are the (Hubble) H-Alpha, OIII, SII narrowband filters. All sitting on top … Continue reading
Ian King has very kindly sponsored the mini-WASP project by providing me with two sets of Baader 2″ narrowband filters at an extremely good price – thank you very much Ian! I now have the 2″ Baader narrowband H-alpha, H-beta, … Continue reading
A ring at the doorbell two days ago and a pair of American visitors together with a local lady are standing on the doorstep (??) Apparently the visitors were walking over Brockenhurst Common having just left the train station and … Continue reading
Gold is formed in Supernova explosions!
Last one of the ISS for now – a bright arc across the sky with Ursa Major in the middle of the frame can only be taken so many times 🙂 But do look out for the ISS over the … Continue reading
