I had a two-hour, cloud-free slot last night between 11.00 p.m. and 1.00 a.m. Bound to be clear with a blazing (full?) Moon trundling along the southern horizon. O.K. so not a good night for imaging, but it did give … Continue reading
I took a look at one of the old computers and rediscovered a couple of lost and forgotten websites. Please check out some images of the 2003 transit of Mercury and the 2004 transit of Venus. The images on these … Continue reading
The Robofocus guys are getting a new website together and asked for photos of the Robofocus on customers’ systems. This is how the Robofocus looks on my Tak Sky 90 which is piggy-backed on the Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS. The … Continue reading
It is clear the way my time is going that I am never going to complete my book “Game Over” which describes the end of our computer generated “reality”.
This image was taken later in the evening on the 6th May, just before Mercury got lost in the purple mush at the bottom of the picture.
A nice astrophoto-opportunity arose on the 6th May 2008 – in the twilight sky, beautiful Mercury lay very close to a new Moon. In a big departure from my normal astrophotography – I took the accompanying image with the Canon … Continue reading
The New Forest Observatory makes an appearance in Scientific Computing World this month. Thank you Felix Grant for producing a very informative article.
In an earlier post I showed how I take large terrestrial mosaics (panoramas) using the Canon 40D in a manner similar to taking deep-sky mosaics. Not only does this give you a bigger field of view, it also gives you (ultimately) … Continue reading
So yesterday it was snow. Today it is hail, rain and sunshine in equal measure. This afternoon this rainbow appeared over the New Forest Observatory. A good omen for 2008??
So after an unbelievably mild winter we get snow on April 6th! Here’s a view of my garden this morning at 7.30 a.m. Now [3.00 p.m.] it is sunny, warm, and the snow has almost completely disappeared.
