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

For the next few weeks all the images will be astronomical Zoom In/Zoom Out images, where both Zoom In and Zoom Out are both high resolution as they were taken either at different focal lengths, or the Zoom Out is … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

This week we feature a composite Arcturus image taken with the 200mm lenses and the 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras in April 2025 and April 2026. The 2 datasets are 24 x 5-minute subs (2025) and 18 x 250-second subs (19/04/2026). … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

We are in for a few weeks of astronomy images. This is a zoom in/zoom out image of NGC6914, a reflection nebula in Cygnus and the only bit of blue in a sea of red as I call it. The … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

Another high-speed-flash image taken at 1/100,000th of a second (10-microseconds). This is another double water-drop collision taking place under a soap bubble covering a drinking glass. The 10-microsecond light pulse (150-Joules in energy) was taken using 3 Xenon flashguns developed … Continue reading

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Star Field in Ursa Major

This is the star field I imaged in Ursa Major last night with the 200mm lenses. It is nothing like it appears on the Sky6 which is a pity.

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Picture of the Week

This week we feature a macrophoto of a Morpho Rhetenor butterfly. The irridescent blue colour is not due to pigment, but it is due to STRUCTURE. Acting like a diffraction grating (or a photonic crystal) it is the complex shape … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

Last week we showed Jupiter and Mercury taken from Whitemoor Pond. This week Jupiter, Venus and Mercury all feature in this week’s Picture of the Week. Image captured using a Canon 5D MkII DSLR with a 15mm Canon fisheye lens … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

Another astronomical image this week. This time we have Jupiter and beautiful red Mercury captured over at Whitemoor Pond, the New Forest.

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Picture of the Week

A high-speed image features this week. Here we have 3 separate images of a double waterdrop collision taking place underneath a bursting soap-bubble. I have used different coloured filters in front of the high-speed flash units. The HSF units are … Continue reading

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Picture of the Week

This week we feature another deep-sky image. This time it is the Gamma Cass region featuring the beautiful Gamma Cass nebulosity. This is a very deep image taken using the 200mm lenses, the 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras and UV/IR cut … Continue reading

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