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Greatly missed, Sir Arthur C Clarke, who wrote a Foreword for Star Vistas, would have been 91 today.  We miss you and will continue to look for you “out there” 🙁

It looks like there is going to be quite a rush on the First Edition of Star Vistas – not only due to the stunning images, but also the distinguished Foreword Authors – Sir Arthur C Clarke – Sir Patrick … Continue reading →

All the recent publicity in the popular Press has sent a torrent of comments in my direction.  Quite a few members of Joe Public made dismissive comments about the images saying they were simply “Photoshopped”.  I guess I should not expect … Continue reading →

Noel & I have an image today on the International Year of Astronomy’s website as “Astropic of the Week”.  It is our image of NGC6914 – a reflection nebula in the huge Gamma Cygni nebulosity IC1318.  Excellent!!!

For us deep-sky images I’m afraid the Moon is simply a nuisance, especially as it approaches full.  Well tonight I wanted to do some imaging – so there’s only one choice really, and that’s the Moon.  This image was taken … Continue reading →

Now that the Hyperstar III is going to be the main imager for some time to come, I have just made some system hardware changes.  The (relatively) heavy Sky 90 has been removed as the guide scope and replaced with … Continue reading →

I now realise that the initial case I considered – a page of text facing a mirror with the page parallel to the mirror – was a very special, and very restrictive case – so it wasn’t really the best … Continue reading →

A while back I wrote how you get lateral inversion (“mirror writing”) in a mirror.  I worked out the solution independently of the (same) one given by Martin Gardner in his book “The Ambidextrous Universe”.

Not everything on this site is deep-sky stuff, occasionally I publish something interesting that’s associated with the photographic process.