Starmus Festival astrophotography winner Alex Cherney got yesterday’s APOD with his prize-winning Starmus entry – a time-lapse video taken from the south Australian coast. One of the most impressive pieces of night-sky time-lapse work I have seen, Alex won a … Continue reading
Gave a talk on “The Magic of Photography” yesterday to the Rhinefield Probus Group. Nice turn out and some very good questions! You will see a new Page Heading above, namely APODS/EPODS where I have listed all the APODS/EPODS published … Continue reading
An extremely interesting APOD today – and I wonder if this means that we are unlikely to find complex life-forms near Galactic centres. Indeed – could this go some way to explain why the Ape descendants appeared in the quiet … Continue reading
Managed to get today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day [APOD] with the wide field (sparkly colour) image of Kemble’s Cascade. I like this image so much it is one of the permanent “wallpapers” on my home computer. The little open … Continue reading
Yesterday, following publication of our Gamma Cass and friends image on Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) – the New Forest Observatory (NFO) site got 4,341 visits!! Usual daily visit rate is around 150. Such is the power of APOD … Continue reading
And to follow on from yesterday’s EPOD, Noel & I managed to get today’s APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day). This time it’s the Gamma Cassiopeia nebulosity and Gamma Cas itself in a wide field image taken using the C11/Hyperstar … Continue reading
We’re on a roll!! The Parker/Carboni double-team have just got the Astronomy Picture of the Day for 23rd December 2008 with our Coathanger cluster image 🙂 This one is a personal favourite of mine and was my desktop for many months. … Continue reading
Great news for Greg & Noel – our image of La Superba has made it onto the APOD [Astronomy Picture of the Day] site for December 18th 2008!!!!!! This image was taken over 2 evenings using the Sky 90/SXVF-M25C combo, … Continue reading
Today, Astronomy Picture of the Day [APOD] have published one of our most recent images, that of Messier 67 (M67) in the constellation Cancer. Gathered at the center of this sharp skyview are the stars of Messier 67, one of the oldest … Continue reading
It took over a year of posting images before it finally happened! Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD) have chosen our picture of the nebulosity around the supergiant star Gamma Cygni as picture of the day – today!
