Category Archives: News

The Robofocus kit arrived beautifully packed first thing this morning!!!  How’s that for a highly efficient company then!!  To put it in perspective – the power adapter I ordered from Maplin at the same time – you’ve guessed it – … Continue reading →

I have just ordered a RoboFocus from Jerry Smith at Domepage [States] and believe it or not it has already been packed and shipped – same day!  How efficient is that.  The Robofocus is for automatically focusing the Sky 90 … Continue reading →

For American/Canadian visitors to this site, please note you can now purchase my book through Starizona

You may not have seen an earlier piece of stunning imagery from Noel – concerning the Moon yet again 🙂  The attached image is a large, high-resolution mosaic of the Moon taken and processed by Noel.  He has pushed up … Continue reading →

And here’s one Noel took a little earlier in the evening.  This is one of the most 3D-looking images of our Moon I’ve seen!

The New Forest Observatory was clouded out on the night of the total eclipse of the Moon, but Noel Carboni in Florida had better skies!  He also had a more reasonable hour to work since he is 5 hours behind … Continue reading →

There is a nice review of “Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images” by our very own Terry Platt [the CEO of Starlight Xpress] on Amazon – thank you Terry, glad you liked the book.  For bigger, better (and more) deep-sky images you’ll have … Continue reading →

Had a very quick trip up to High Street Kensington today to check out Astrofest 2008.  Met a few UKAI forumites, and had a chance to speak to some of the guys who have thinned my wallet over the years.  … Continue reading →

Faith Eckersall conducted an interview at the New Forest Observatory and this appeared in print in the Daily Echo on Monday February 4th 2008.  Brian May also saw the article and has it on his site under “new deep-sky photography book”.  … Continue reading →

First Light Systems Ltd. [FLS] are right on target to have the initial 200 Joule, 40 microsecond flash duration [Pro] systems on the market by the end of February 2008.