Got today’s EPOD with a shadow self-portrait taken at mid-day near the winter solstice over the New Forest. Thank you Jim for continuing to show my work 🙂
Here is a short clip from the Meridian weather forecast from December 28th 2009. Copyright Meridian TV.
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
Great news! Noel & I managed to get today’s EPOD with a festive Christmas Tree cluster and cone nebula shot (EPOD have the picture upside down at the moment – but I’ve told Jim so it might turn up the … Continue reading
Just had two new publications for 2010 come through the post this morning – the Astronomy Now 2010 Yearbook & Patrick Moore’s 2010 Yearbook of Astronomy. Why? Because Noel & I managed to get an “Astronomy Now readers’ pictures of … Continue reading
Managed to get today’s EPOD with a shot with a tiny little Canon IXUS camera – a view of central Athens from the Acropolis with Lykavittos hill as the main subject.
We had a week of sub-zero temperatures at the beginning of 2009 which led to hoar-frost covered spider webs and grass as well as “crystalline copses” – trees glittering from the ice in the early morning winter sunshine. It was … Continue reading
The satellite van is in sunny Brockenhurst right now and there’ll be a live broadcast from the New Forest Observatory tonight on the local Meridian News. We’re due to have a few days (and nights!) fine weather apparently, so I … Continue reading
Radio interview recorded in April 2009 A new local radio (webcast) station recently opened in Brockenhurst and Greg was invited along to talk about the New Forest Observatory. You can listen to the interview here 🙂 [media id=5 width=320 height=240]
