Happy New Year to you all – I hope the hangover from last night’s celebrations isn’t too bad 🙂 The imaging object for this month is one of the most famous supernova remnants, and the first entry in Messier’s catalogue … Continue reading
I have just put out a pair of FLAT pinhole cameras to track the Sun’s path across the sky. They should have gone out on December 21st but plenty of things got in the way – including Alan Sugar’s autobiography … Continue reading
On this Christmas Day I present to you the most intricate icing pattern you have ever seen. This is the Mandelbulb (3-D Mandelbrot) only recently discovered. What an amazing structure! Happy Christmas 2010 to you all.
The 6-month pinhole camera image shown below made an appearance on last night’s Meridian Weather with Simon Parkin. Actually came out well on the TV – congratulations to the technical team there at Meridian – and thank you Simon 🙂
Today the two pinhole cameras on the south-facing wall were opened up 🙂 The image below is a 6-month sub-exposure of my southern horizon showing the Sun’s path across the sky. See how low it is in Winter! You can … Continue reading
Well there’s not much imaging getting done at the end of 2010 that’s for sure!
Saw some beautiful Geminids last night between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. when it decided to cloud over. Too lazy to go over to a New Forest dark site to photograph – I worked from the back garden – big mistake!! … Continue reading
Novatech came up to scratch with a new superb product – a 4-monitor support system that will take up to 24″ monitors – I have IIYAMA Prolite E2407HDS 24″ monitors, and as you can see on this video, the stand … Continue reading
Louey the black Labrador uses the observatory as the turn around point in his blistering circuit of the garden in this video.
