I spent last week at an electronics Conference in Athens, Greece. Amazingly, from the Acropolis I could see two observatories – one actually down in the town (!) and another far away on a hilltop overlooking Athens. I don’t think … Continue reading
Here’s how the two beer can pinhole cameras look on the South-facing wall of my house. I hope we are not intending to sell within the next year or so as potential buyers may be put off by the sight. … Continue reading
I have just made up 2 beer can pinhole cameras (see Justin Quinnell’s website to see how to do this) and fitted them to a wooden frame on a South-facing wall of the house. I have opened the shutter (removed … Continue reading
Conventional narrowband filters (12nm or smaller bandwidth) do not work with the Hyperstar III system due to its very low f#. The cone angle of the rays passing through the filter are so far from normal incidence that the actual … Continue reading
Sir Patrick Moore hosted one of his legendary St. George’s Day parties from his Selsey home. The camera-shake was real as he wielded his Sword of St. George with a little too much enthusiasm 🙂
My son Adam Parker recently graduated with a degree in Journalism and has been writing articles for local newspaper, the Lyminton Times. In today’s edition there is an example of his work where he describes our recent visit to Sir … Continue reading
On 10th February 2009 Greg Parker, Adam Parker & Noel Carboni visited Sir Patrick at Farthings to present him with a joint-author signed copy of Star Vistas. Sir Patrick was in fine form and gave us the keys to his observatories … Continue reading
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
