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

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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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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This week’s POW featured as an EPOD (Earth Science Picture of the Day). Here we see a macrophoto of a Sunflower seed-head on the left, and on the right we see a simulation of the seed-head produced using the Mathcad … Continue reading

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This week we feature a selection of 3D prints from the old (and now retired) ANET A6 which performed superbly for many years.

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Back to astronomy this week with an image of the Witch’s Broom nebula in Cygnus. This is not my data but data given to me by a lecturer at Brockenhurst College. He got professional narrowband data – Ha Hb and … Continue reading

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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.

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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

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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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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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