Back over the New Forest again this week with one of my favourites. I call them Highlanders (after the film) but they are Highland cattle. They look pretty formidable, but they don’t give visitors a second glance.
Back to non-astro pics this week with birds that you often hear over the New Forest in summer, but rarely see as they like to hide in the gorse. This is a lovely pair of Stonechats and you know they’re … Continue reading
This week we go back to an astroimage. A very widefield of one of my favourite starfield regions – the Caph region of Cassiopeia. This image also captures my favourite open-cluster NGC7789, I call this the open cluster that thinks … Continue reading
This week we feature a High-Speed image of a pair of eggs being shot by an air rifle. You can just see the pellet to the far left of the image frozen in flight. I was inspired to take this … Continue reading
This week we show a micrograph of a Dragonfly eye. But it takes quite a bit of work to put an image like this together. The image is captured using a Canon 5D MkII DSLR camera attached to a research … Continue reading
This week’s picture of the week is a macrophoto of the “Eye” region on the underside of an Owl Butterfly’s wing. The image was captured using a Canon 5D MkII DSLR and a Canon 100mm macro-lens.
This week we feature a Lunar Halo captured one cold evening at the New Forest Observatory, with Jupiter making a cameo appearance.
Pictures of the Week beginning January 4th 2026 will include ALL images captured at the New Forest Observatory – not just astronomy images. In this image we have a pair of Buzzards soaring over the New Forest Observatory in a … Continue reading
For the Christmas week we feature my favourite Christmas period star. The mighty Sirius!!!
For the Christmas week we feature my favourite Christmas star. The mighty Sirius!!
