Category Archives: Projects

Projects undertaken at New Forest Observatory

mini-WASP update

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Greg Parker

I have a new all-Aluminium connector designed and built for connecting an SXM26C (or H18 mono) CCD at the correct metal-back distance to the focal reducer on the Sky 90 refractor.  I am just getting a further 3 of these … Continue reading →

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Three screens with a Hubble desktop

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Greg Parker

So what does it look like in the NFO Control Room with the 3-screen system running a high-resolution Hubble image screensaver?

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O.K. I just couldn’t resist it:

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Greg Parker
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Three screens to go!

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Greg Parker

Here is a fish eye view of my three-screen system up and running.  Three superb Iiyama 24″ letterbox screens driven by an ATI Radeon 5770 card and one screen with a Sapphire (active) display port adapter from Overclockers U.K.  I … Continue reading →

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The pinhole camera project 7th September to 17th December 2009

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Greg Parker

I opened up the pinhole cameras a couple of days early just in case they were set in the wrong position, and also to check if the wettest November on record had made its mark.  One pinhole camera unfortunately DID … Continue reading →

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Just 4 days to go! The pinhole camera Solstice project

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Greg Parker

On Sunday 20th December 2009 I will open up the two pinhole cameras on my south-facing wall, remove the exposed film, and replace with two new sheets of film.  I will then leave the cameras open from 21st December 2009 … Continue reading →

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Inner space – again!

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Greg Parker

Well as the weather is not allowing me to take outer-space images, it’s back to some inner space work again.  This time an opalescent beetle leg gets photomicrographed using a 23-frame focus stack put together using the Helicon Focus software. … Continue reading →

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mini-WASP array and Brian May’s new book

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Greg Parker

Great day today (no – not the weather!) – put the side panels on the mini-WASP array, and Brian May sent me a copy of his new book “A Village Lost & Found”.  This is a beautiful publication and you … Continue reading →

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O.K. so I couldn’t wait until tomorrow:

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Greg Parker

To load up the Sky 90s 🙂

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Current status of the mini-WASP array November 2009

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Greg Parker

I bolted the mini-WASP telescope frame to the Paramount versa-plate to get a feel what the finished system will look like.  The funny-looking device sticking out the front of the frame is a counterbalance arm for the weight of all … Continue reading →

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