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Category Archives: News
More Golden Solid angle stuff
Mr. Ray Girvan has kindly replicated my Golden Solid angle work from 2007 for others to see (with diagrams!) on his site. Ray states that he can see why the Mathematical Gazette might have been unimpressed by the Golden Solid angle … Continue reading
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Low winter Sun
Went over the New Forest today between North Weirs and South Weirs and took this shadow self-portrait. It clearly illustrates just how low the Sun is at this time of the year – this photo was taken at around mid-day!! … Continue reading
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Happy New Year!! January 1st 2010 – the year we make contact
Nice bright sunny morning on this first day of the New Year – and this guy was out enjoying the weak winter rays: Not sure why the image of the month hasn’t popped up this morning – we are looking … Continue reading
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Registar – registration software
I have just purchased some incredibly powerful registration software called Registar. I played with the free download version for a few days before deciding I couldn’t live without this one and bought it today 🙂 It is really useful to … Continue reading
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Meridian weather picture for December 28th 2009 – a festive deep-sky image from the NFO
Here is a short clip from the Meridian weather forecast from December 28th 2009. Copyright Meridian TV.
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Meridian weather 6:45 p.m. tonight
I believe that the Cone nebula and Christmas Tree cluster will feature on tonight’s Meridian weather. Keep an eye out around 6:45 p.m. 🙂
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Total visits to the NFO site on 24th December 2009 – 4341
Yesterday, following publication of our Gamma Cass and friends image on Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) – the New Forest Observatory (NFO) site got 4,341 visits!! Usual daily visit rate is around 150. Such is the power of APOD … Continue reading
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Not only is it Christmas Day – it’s Noel’s birthday too!!
Happy Birthday Noel!!! Looking forward to even more great collaborative images for 2010 🙂 Hopefully by the summer we’ll be working on data from the mini-WASP array – that’ll set the cat amongst the pigeons 🙂
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NFO now over 110,000 hits!
The surge of hits from our recent APOD has now pushed the number of hits on our site to over 110,000!! Great way to be ending 2009 🙂 A couple of hours later and we’re now over 111,000 hits 🙂 … Continue reading
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Just 4 days to go! The pinhole camera Solstice project
On Sunday 20th December 2009 I will open up the two pinhole cameras on my south-facing wall, remove the exposed film, and replace with two new sheets of film. I will then leave the cameras open from 21st December 2009 … Continue reading