Category Archives: Projects

Projects undertaken at New Forest Observatory

The icing on the (Christmas) cake

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Greg Parker

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.

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Meridian Weather 22nd December 2010 with Simon Parkin

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Greg Parker

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 🙂

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Winter Solstice 2010 6-month sub-exposure

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Greg Parker

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 →

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NFO in the snow AGAIN 18th December 2010

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Greg Parker

Well there’s not much imaging getting done at the end of 2010 that’s for sure!

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So where are all the Geminid pictures?

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Greg Parker

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 →

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The Matrix has landed at the New Forest Observatory!

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Greg Parker

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 →

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Another 2nd December 2010 shot of the NFO in the snow

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Greg Parker
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The observatory is used as the return point in a race straight out of Ben Hur

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Greg Parker

Louey the black Labrador uses the observatory as the turn around point in his blistering circuit of the garden in this video.

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First snow of the year

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Greg Parker

First snow of the year here in Brockenhurst – even we didn’t get away with it this time (we quite often do).  Taken with a fish-eye lens on the Canon 5D MkII at 8:00 a.m. this morning.

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Enneper’s surface high resolution

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Greg Parker

O.K. so it wasn’t quite the last post for a while 🙂  I just found how to get higher resolution (PlotPoints) working in ParametricPlot3D – now I’m happy!

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