HAPPY 90th BIRTHDAY SIR ARTHUR C CLARKE!!!!!!! Have a great day, and a great year to come 🙂 Greg and Noel.
The mini-WASP framework was delivered to the New Forest Observatory by the CEO of NTE Poole, Eric Kennedy, on Wednesday 5th December 2007. If you have just joined us then make sure you read all about the mini-Wasp Array Project from … Continue reading
Two weeks ago I bought a Canon 40D DSLR camera for terrestrial work. While playing with this beast it struck me that by using the same mosaic techniques that we use in creating big deep-sky panoramas – we could actually … Continue reading
For December, the imaging object of the Month could be any number of goodies in Orion or neighbouring Monoceros. So it could be M42 the Great Nebula in Orion, or the nearby Horsehead region lying close to the brilliant belt … Continue reading
At 8.00 a.m. this morning an upgrade to Photoshop CS3 arrived. Within half an hour I was creating mosaics from frames that Photoshop CS2 simply couldn’t handle. The image below is a 15-framer, stitched together perfectly by CS3. This upgrade … Continue reading
When I originally bought the Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector way back in April-May 2002, I did so because it could use the highly innovative Hyperstar lens, and at that time there was no Meade equivalent. The Hyperstar is … Continue reading
I thought I’d talk about techniques and show how some of the techniques used to create our deep-sky astroimages can be used in terrestrial photography as well. For example, the two images of North Weirs in the New Forest (just … Continue reading
Attempting to explain the operation of the simplest optical device known to man, was the practical demonstration in my Inaugural Lecture at the University of Southampton, which took place on May 18th 2005. The “Eureka” moment as the mirror’s ability … Continue reading
This was one of the very first “serious” astronomy books I bought when I first got the Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS. Initially, as I only used the Nexstar for observing, the title of this book seemed relevant to my needs – yes … Continue reading
Once again, I am about a month early with this object according to Walter Scott Houston’s “Deep-Sky Wonders”, but this is to make sure we get a nice long imaging time on this cluster in an evening. Everyone knows the … Continue reading
