Saw some beautiful Geminids last night between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. when it decided to cloud over. Too lazy to go over to a New Forest dark site to photograph – I worked from the back garden – big mistake!! … Continue reading
Novatech came up to scratch with a new superb product – a 4-monitor support system that will take up to 24″ monitors – I have IIYAMA Prolite E2407HDS 24″ monitors, and as you can see on this video, the stand … Continue reading
Louey the black Labrador uses the observatory as the turn around point in his blistering circuit of the garden in this video.
First snow of the year here in Brockenhurst – even we didn’t get away with it this time (we quite often do). Taken with a fish-eye lens on the Canon 5D MkII at 8:00 a.m. this morning.
You can read more about the Starmus Festival – Tenerife March 21 – 26 2011 – here 🙂
An extremely interesting APOD today – and I wonder if this means that we are unlikely to find complex life-forms near Galactic centres. Indeed – could this go some way to explain why the Ape descendants appeared in the quiet … Continue reading
I have just brought the massive all-Aluminium mini-WASP pier in from the shed. I will set it up in the upstairs study with the Paramount on top to give a dry run for the computer and all the electronics. The … Continue reading
I often check to see how Star Vistas is doing on Amazon.co.uk and got a bit of surprise when I just got in from walking the dog over the forest. I have the number 1 and 2 slots in the … Continue reading
Thought I would begin a video diary on the mini-WASP array project at this time even before the hole has been dug in the ground for the obligatory concrete block. As we are all aware – any new observatory project … Continue reading
