Category Archives: Picture of the Week

A new Picture of the Week category to keep the site up to date starting with 18/02/2024

Picture of the Week

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

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Picture of the Week

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

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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

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Picture of the Week

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.

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Picture of the Week

This week we feature a Lunar Halo captured one cold evening at the New Forest Observatory, with Jupiter making a cameo appearance.

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Picture of the Week

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

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For the Christmas week we feature my favourite Christmas period star. The mighty Sirius!!!

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Picture of the Week

For the Christmas week we feature my favourite Christmas star. The mighty Sirius!!

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Picture of the Week

This week we feature a large galaxy cluster that can be found near Arcturus. All the faint brown fuzzies that can be seen in the centre of this image are all galaxies. A star is tagged so that you can … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

This week we feature the IC410/405 region of Auriga with an image captured using the 200mm Canon prime lenses together with the Optolong filters and the ASI 2600 MC Pro CMOS cameras.

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