Category Archives: Projects

Projects undertaken at New Forest Observatory

Meridian Weather 22nd December 2010 with Simon Parkin

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

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

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?

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!

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

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The observatory is used as the return point in a race straight out of Ben Hur

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

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

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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Klein bottle

Last one for a while now – the Klein bottle:

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