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
February is the latest month I can still image the Orion region, and Orion’s Belt is very well-placed due South for me during February. The Belt region is full of faint emission and reflection nebulosity that favours dark skies and … 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 🙂
Being January, Orion once again is the obvious choice for deep-sky imaging. But how about some deep-sky imaging with a difference? What about some infrared imaging? Silicon-based CCD detectors will detect photons up to 1um in wavelength, although the efficiency … Continue reading
It is the first clear day in ages – makes a great change from the dull, dark, grey, completely overcast days we have been experiencing for quite a while now. This is the view towards the West from the New … Continue reading
There hasn’t been a huge amount of progress since the last report. The only change to the array is that I’ve now added the second Sky 90 to the frame as I now use the lightweight Celestron 80mm refractor to … Continue reading
Last night there were some breaks in the cloud and it was also unusually mild. So I took the 40D outside on the tripod (I should have taken the TT320 as well but I wasn’t thinking straight yesterday for reasons … Continue reading
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
