I opened up the pinhole cameras a couple of days early just in case they were set in the wrong position, and also to check if the wettest November on record had made its mark. One pinhole camera unfortunately DID … Continue reading
On Sunday 20th December 2009 I will open up the two pinhole cameras on my south-facing wall, remove the exposed film, and replace with two new sheets of film. I will then leave the cameras open from 21st December 2009 … Continue reading
There’s plenty of clouds at the moment 🙁 but I’m hoping for just a few gaps in the cloud tonight. No Moon – and it should be the peak in the Geminid meteor shower (13th – 14th December 2009). Went … Continue reading
Well as the weather is not allowing me to take outer-space images, it’s back to some inner space work again. This time an opalescent beetle leg gets photomicrographed using a 23-frame focus stack put together using the Helicon Focus software. … Continue reading
The Golden Ratio (and the closely associated Fibonacci series) makes many appearances in the “living world” – here’s my question – not including Mathematics and man-made objects, does the Golden Ratio appear naturally in any inorganic systems? There is a … Continue reading
It will not have been mentioned before in this blog, but I like certain aspects of pure mathematics as much as I like deep-sky imaging. I think most people will have heard of the Golden-Section, or the Golden-Ratio, and how … Continue reading
Clear last night (although with a nearly full Moon) and managed to get a very seldom imaged iridescent reflection nebula appropriately named “The Butterfly nebula” in Orion. O.K. it’s a picture of the Morpho Rhetenor butterfly wing (structural colour) but … Continue reading
Well, not exactly the Douglas Adam’s cluster as that would look like the number “42” – whereas this open cluster in Orion bears a striking resemblance to the number “37” and is therefore known as the 37-cluster. The 37 cluster, … Continue reading
Great day today (no – not the weather!) – put the side panels on the mini-WASP array, and Brian May sent me a copy of his new book “A Village Lost & Found”. This is a beautiful publication and you … Continue reading
To load up the Sky 90s 🙂
