Below I am copying the e-mail Simon Singh sent out to people who have helped in some way regarding changing the libel laws of this country. Rather than e-mail all the people in my address book who were so helpful in supporting … Continue reading
I touched on the answer to this one earlier when I commented on the public’s misunderstanding of the use of Photoshop in image processing. To recap very briefly on the use of Photoshop in digital image processing deep-sky images, nothing is … Continue reading
I have seen a big jump in UK sales of Star Vistas over the last couple of days – absolutely no idea why. Maybe there’s been a review somewhere that I haven’t seen. Whatever the reason – enjoy!!
Noel Carboni has brought out a new PhotoShop plug-in that allows you to put “star spikes” on bright daytime objects as well as on stars in your deep-space images. Add an extra “zing” to you photographs of jewellery, or those … Continue reading
Today the New Forest Observatory website clocked up its 130,000th visitor. Next announcement when we hit 150,000 🙂
My old 2-monitor system (the one running XP with a graphics card that can drive 2 monitors) was playing up giving all sorts of odd (intermittent) effects including switching monitor 2 for monitor 1 and losing the desktop. The card … Continue reading
By Apostolos Doxiadis – is a work of complete and utter brilliance, I would say genius – and a book that joins that elite (and very small) group of mine, the books that have been read in just one sitting. If you … Continue reading
It was Professor Peter Landsberg’s funeral today at the East Chapel at Southampton Crematorium. Standing room only – Peter had a great number of friends. He will be sadly missed – there is nobody at the University that can take … Continue reading
Here is a fish eye view of my three-screen system up and running. Three superb Iiyama 24″ letterbox screens driven by an ATI Radeon 5770 card and one screen with a Sapphire (active) display port adapter from Overclockers U.K. I … Continue reading
