Category Archives: News

The footage taken at the New Forest Observatory actually went out on tonight’s Meridian News.  Apologies for the duff information given below.  My piece was preceeded by Sir Patrick – I didn’t know my book (Star Vistas) Foreword author was going … Continue reading →

Well the nights are getting longer again, so hopefully this will be the last non-deep-sky image for a while 🙂  I took the “Ultra” units up to a photographic studio in Oxford today and we had some fun popping water-filled … Continue reading →

As part of the 40th Anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon, Meridian News will be presenting a number of short features during next week.  It is expected that some filming carried out at the New Forest Observatory … Continue reading →

O.K. so it’s not a deep-sky image as we are still suffering zero length evenings in June – but that doesn’t stop me capturing digital images of the wildlife surrounding the New Forest Observatory.  This little guy was caught this … Continue reading →

Fred Clarke (Arthur C Clarke’s brother who lives in the S.W. of England) has two copies of Star Vistas destined to go into a new museum Fred is creating to house Sir Arthur C Clarke’s work.  When Sir Arthur kindly … Continue reading →

Yesterday the New Forest Observatory web site reached a truly massive 80,000 hits!  It is interesting to note the most popular landing page from peoples’ searches.  Have you any idea what it might be?  Could it be “images of deep-space”, Star Vistas, … Continue reading →

We have now acquired 50% of the entirely new image portfolio for inclusion in Star Vistas II 🙂  I estimate that the full set of images for the next publication will be completed late 2009, early 2010.  If you liked … Continue reading →

The talk at Southampton University on 1st April went very well, and the few copies of Star Vistas that I brought along sold out 🙂 Tomorrow I will be on a local radio station – I have no idea what … Continue reading →

From deep-space images back to inner space images once again!  Just found this in the shed this afternoon and had to take a macro of it: A wasp’s nest, with the honeycomb region about half an inch across.  Amazingly beautiful … Continue reading →

I shall be giving a talk (mostly a pretty-picture PowerPoint presentation) about imaging from the New Forest Observatory at the University of Southampton’s IYA2009 event on Wednesday 1st April 2009.  From 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. there will be various … Continue reading →