We’re getting some good sitings of the Space Station even though we are plagued with this high faint cloud. I missed Progress 41P this time, only got the Space Station 🙁 Noel Carboni made the image a little less “orange” … Continue reading
Last night (22nd April 2011) Progress 41P (a Russian automated cargo vehicle) and the International Space Station passed over almost directly overhead. Progress 41P was just one minute in front of the ISS, so you could see both in the … Continue reading
The big Wickes order arrived this morning at 11:00 a.m. and I put the cement mixer together ready to build the concrete pier support with Tom How tomorrow (Saturday). The mini-WASP is really starting to take off now! Next will … Continue reading
Took a look at the web site just before going to bed (as you do) and saw that the New Forest Observatory today exceeded 200,000 visitors. WOW!!! Thank you all for your interest – please keep visiting and keep right … Continue reading
Kieron of SCS Astro Limited (Somerset) has helped me out yet again – this time with an extremely good price on a pair of 52mm Hutech IDAS light pollution filters. Thank you very much Kieron 🙂 Why 52mm? Because the … Continue reading
Just a reminder to send your very best deep-sky images into the Starmus Festival imaging competition. Wish I could enter this! Prizes include a paid trip to Tenerife and time on the biggest (optical) telescope on the planet – WOW!!!! … Continue reading
Here’s an image of tonight’s so-called SuperMoon taken just an hour ago as the Moon was about to clear the tree-tops down the road. Didn’t look any different to a “normal” Moon to me 🙂
And here is Jupiter and Mercury again – this time sunset on March 18th 2011.
Got phoned up by Radio Solent this morning to make a few comments on UFOs – aired live about 10:40 a.m. Well what can I say? To quote Arthur C Clarke “You haven’t seen a UFO unless you got the … Continue reading
If you look into past posts you will see that a number of years ago I came up with the Golden Solid Angle that nobody seems to have considered before. Playing around on Wolfram Alpha (it comes back with a … Continue reading
