You can see a full colour image of the California nebula processed from DSS2 data here. The nebula extends to quite a way below the leftmost part of the image – it’s VERY big!
Not having the day job has given me a new imaging experience – the ability to image during June 🙂 With the day job I used to give up imaging half way through May (if not earlier) due to the … Continue reading
Managed to grab 7 x 10 minute subs on all 3 mini-WASP cameras before the cloud I had been watching finally arrived from France. Glad really as it meant I could have an early 12:30 a.m. night. This is open … Continue reading
Last night it was beautifully clear and Moonless and was probably one of the best imaging runs I’ve ever had. Apart from the highly anti-social hours of course as I couldn’t start imaging much before 11:00 p.m. which meant shutting … Continue reading
Yes – another single star picture for this month’s Image of the Month. Polaris, the Pole star, the North star, Alpha Ursa Minor – the Navigator’s friend. I like this region of space because 1) It is rarely imaged and … Continue reading
I had an electric focuser lying around so with a pulley and timing belt from Radiospares I put together an electric focuser rig for the Canon 5D MkII and the 100mm macro lens that took the mega-wide-field Virgo/Coma galaxies shot. … Continue reading
Feynman left us many interesting facts/tools and one of the most powerful I have ever come across was his observation that “The same equations have the same solutions”. By this he means that equations of the same form have similar solutions. Now … Continue reading
Does the EPR “paradox” tell us anything about Physics? Well the trite answer is yes of course it does – but can we be a bit more specific? Physics is an “after the fact” science relying on experiments and the … Continue reading
Anne Baring’s new book “The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul” has a Pleiades image from the New Forest Observatory on the cover. The Publisher has done an excellent job in putting the book together.
As I’ve mentioned before – this is MY blog, so I can write what the hell I like. My cage has just been rattled by a piece written about Harvard and it mentions teaching in Universities. You have teachers at … Continue reading
