Simon Parkin gave tonight’s Meridian Weather forecast and the introductory picture was the Beehive cluster (M44) in Cancer which is now in a great position for imaging. I recently took several hours data on this one using both 5 and … Continue reading
I now have 3 screens running on a Windows 7 system 🙂 In the end I got all the bits necessary to build up a complete new (Windows 7) system around the new motherboard. So the new system has the … Continue reading
O.K. this is a continuation of the attempt to add a third monitor to my system saga. Let’s recap how we got to the present state. Bought an ATI Radeon 5770 card as it said it supported 3 monitors – … Continue reading
Towards the end of last year I was getting more than a bit annoyed about the lack of 3 monitor control with the ATI Radeon 5770 card. To refresh your memory in the large print in the spec towards the … Continue reading
Pulled up EPOD (Earth Science Picture of the Day) a couple of minutes ago and unexpectedly found the NFO image of NGC1333 looking back at me. It really is a stunning region of space and the eerie-looking dust clouds gives … Continue reading
If it stays clear for long enough, and I’m imaging in the right place – then tomorrow sometime I should be posting up an image of the asteroid Vesta which is passing the star Algieba in the constellation Leo right … Continue reading
Star Vistas is now below $7! Even with postage from the States, you can now get Star Vistas for less than half the U.K. Amazon price – extraordinary!
O.K. so while I’m at it I might as well rant a bit about global warming too – at least it’s slightly less removed from deep-sky imaging than the topic below. Whilst the “experts” continue to debate whether climate change/global … Continue reading
Unfortunately the aging grey cells have been triggered into mild action having written about Prof. P. T. Landsberg and the University of Sussex. This is a long way from deep-sky imaging, but this is my blog and I can write … Continue reading
I have just heard some very sad news – Professor Peter T Landsberg has died over this weekend 🙁 Landsberg is a name you will be familiar with if you have studied Thermodynamics (Entropy), Quantum Mechanics, or Time to any … Continue reading
