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Stop Press!!! Stop Press!!! Possible discovery from the NFO!!!

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Greg Parker

Noel has just processed a Sky 90/M25C image of an open cluster.  We had already imaged the same cluster a couple of years earlier with the Hyperstar 1 and SXV-H9C.  One very faint very red star of around magnitude 13 … Continue reading →

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Statrep NFO 16th May 2008

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Greg Parker

The high-resolution draft version of “Star Vistas” has now been electronically delivered to Springer.  Some suggestions for improvements in the text have been made, and Noel and I are working on these presently.  There is a review of my “How … Continue reading →

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Star Vistas completed 10th May 2008

Posted on May 10, 2008 by Greg Parker

Noel Carboni has literally just completed the last fine adjustments on the new deep-sky coffee-table book – Star Vistas.  He is now assembling the high-resolution version ready to send off to Springer.  We are hoping for publication early 2009.  I … Continue reading →

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Hampshire Astronomical Group seminar II

Posted on May 10, 2008 by Greg Parker

I had a great evening in Clanfield last night with the Hampshire Astronomical Group who made me [the wife and the dog] most welcome.  If you are invited along by HAG to give a talk, I can highly recommend you … Continue reading →

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Hampshire Astronomical Group seminar

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Greg Parker

I am giving a seminar to the Hampshire Astronomical Group at the Clanfield Memorial Hall tonight at 7.45 p.m.  You will be able to purchase signed copies of “Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images” at a reduced rate.  See you there 🙂

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The last Sir Arthur C Clarke EGOGRAM – 2008

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Greg Parker

The last Egogram to be sent out by Sir Arthur came to me on the 30th January 2008.  As you can see he was anticipating the next big milestone – 2010 – the year we make contact. Sir Arthur Clarke                                                                           … Continue reading →

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Sir Arthur C Clarke 16th December 1917 – 19th March 2008

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Greg Parker

I have just heard the terrible news that Sir Arthur C Clarke died today.  Sir Arthur transformed my life at age 19 when I started my first job at Harwell and began reading his mind-expanding Science Fiction.  As I told … Continue reading →

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The whole of the Veil nebula in Cygnus

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Greg Parker

The last few days Noel has been working right through the night to get the images sorted for Star Vistas.  As I write this, Noel is working on the mammoth Veil Nebula data set.  In a previous post you can … Continue reading →

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Robofocus first light

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Greg Parker

I used the Robofocus for the first time last night.  Beautiful clear Moonless night, not what you usually get when you are trying out a new piece of astro gear.  There is an auto Wizard jobby that comes with FocusMax … Continue reading →

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PEC training and Robofocus

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Greg Parker

Last night I PEC trained the Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS (wedge mounted altazimuth) mount for the first time.  The Celestron software made a 5-average learning run very easy to carry out.  Since a worm-gear rotation is around 8-minutes this exercise … Continue reading →

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