An eagle-eyed viewer noticed that there were apparently no green stars in the deep-sky images and she wondered why this should be. Not a particularly easy question to answer, but it is a combination of the characteristics of black-body radiation … Continue reading
The New Forest Observatory web site hit some technical difficulties yesterday, I hope you now find us back once again in good condition 🙂
The good news continues! Noel & I have just got the Astropic of the Week on the International Year of Astronomy website. It is the iconic Belt region of Orion. Thank you Steve for putting our image onto a well-viewed … Continue reading
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
Here is an aerial view of the NFO. The house on the end where the road bends round is home to the NFO, and you can see the dome as a white circle at the bottom of the garden.
