Our April Fool’s Day imaging object of the month is Abell 1656, the Coma Galaxy Cluster! Abell 1656 is a massive cluster of galaxies in the constellation Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair) and is over 2-degrees in diameter! Nearly everything you … Continue reading
A first for me – managed to capture the International Space Station crossing my southern horizon last night – Sunday March 6th 2011 at 6:57 p.m. – it is an amazing sight! This was a nice long 3-minute crossing (as … Continue reading
A very lively party at Sir Patrick’s last night, all the usual suspects present. This was a double celebration of the 700th Sky at Night, and Sir Patrick’s birthday (which was the day before). Sir Patrick had supposedly invited 70 … Continue reading
Our deep-sky objects for March 2011 are a pair of open clusters that sit nicely in the field of view of most imaging setups – these are M35 and close-by NGC 2158 in Gemini. M35 (also labelled NGC 2168) has … Continue reading
The Sun track pinhole camera image made it into the Daily Mail online 🙂 Not exactly an accurate representation of what went on but I am rather used to it by now 🙂
Please note the new category above, in the header bar, for the New Forest Observatory. In this section I will list suppliers who have generously helped out with the creation of the mini-WASP imaging array. First in the list is Kieron of … Continue reading
As we leave winter and start heading for spring I am coming out of hibernation and beginning the final thrust of getting the mini-WASP array on-line. Next week I am getting in some quotes for the concrete block and decking … Continue reading
Well – a very nice and totally unexpected surprise this morning (thank you Jim!) when I opened the EPOD (Earth Science Picture of the Day) page and saw my pinhole camera image of the Sun’s path across the sky. Taken using a … Continue reading
Our imaging object for this month was discovered as recently as 1980 – yes you read that correctly – this cascade of stars was first listed by Lucian J Kemble in 1980! Living in Alberta, Canada, Kemble came across this … Continue reading
It shows how bad the weather is, and has been, I am reduced to looking at number theory 🙂 I am not a Mathematician by any stretch of the imagination, so my basic question may already be well known, but … Continue reading
