Category Archives: Projects

Projects undertaken at New Forest Observatory

Kappa Cassiopeia with NGC 146 and NGC 133

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Greg Parker

Whilst working on the mini-WASP array last night I took a quick image of a reasonably bright star with the one good scope and camera.  The central star is Kappa Cassiopeia and the two open clusters above it are NGC … Continue reading →

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Further adventures with the mini-WASP array

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Greg Parker

Took a look outside around 11:00 p.m. to see that we had really nice clear skies – that was unexpected.  Can’t let a clear sky go to waste so I went out for an evening’s work tuning up the mini-WASP … Continue reading →

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Another 6-month Sun trail image using the Tea caddy pinhole camera

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Greg Parker

Today being the summer Solstice for 2012, and seeing as it has rained all day, I opened up the two Tea caddy pinhole cameras that I put up last winter Solstice.  So here we have 6-months worth of Sun trails … Continue reading →

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2012 Sony World Photography Awards – runner-up

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Greg Parker

I managed to get runner-up in the “Split Second” category of the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards 2012 with my “eggsplosion” high-speed flash image.  Hoping to do just that bit better in 2013 🙂  

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Downloaded PEMPro from CCDWare for 60-day free evaluation

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Greg Parker

I have just downloaded the 60-day trial version of PEMPro from CCDWare (I already use their brilliant CCDInspector software) for evalutaion.  PEMPro allows you to polar align and train the PEC for your mount.  As I want to be able … Continue reading →

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Venus transit June 2012 – a mid-transit image

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Greg Parker

Below I published images of the beginning and the end of the transit (downloaded live from the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite) – but for some reason I did not include an image from near the middle of the transit.  Rectified … Continue reading →

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The whole of the 2012 Transit of Venus displayed as a montage

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Greg Parker

I used all the individual frames of the animation to put together this montage of the 2012 Transit of Venus.  In the very last image of the Sun, Venus has just passed the edge of the Sun and we will … Continue reading →

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Some single transit of Venus 2012 images

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Greg Parker

Some single stills images of the 2012 transit of Venus from last night/early this morning.

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The NFO control room during the 2012 Transit of Venus

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Greg Parker

This was the view of the 4-monitors in the New Forest Observatory Control Centre last night/this morning during the Transit of Venus.  Screen top left was Norway – this was the first to show ingress, a good few minutes ahead … Continue reading →

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Little steps

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Greg Parker

A couple of nights ago I had an hour to continue setting up the mini-WASP array before in came the cloud.  I was working on collimating camera 1 to scope 1 (camera 2 is well-collimated to scope 2 and giving … Continue reading →

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