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Dave Parker has created a new look for the New Forest Observatory galleries.  To view these – first of all make sure you are seated!  Now download Cool Iris www.cooliris.com Now go to the images section and open up the nebula pages.  O.K. brace yourself – now click on the text Pic Lens!!!  Grab and drag the blue lights in the grey rectangle at the bottom to scroll through the images.  Click on an image for full screen mode (you may need to wait a few seconds for it to load).  Wow!  Thanks Dave – what a rush 🙂

The Astronomy Group at the University of Southampton will be holding an International Year of Astronomy event on 1st April 2009 at the University.  Yours truly will be giving a lecture on “Deep-Sky Imaging from the New Forest Observatory” at 7:00 p.m. and there will be telescopes available (weather permitting) for imaging and observing.

 Read about the amateur astronomer Percy B Molesworth written by Nalaka Gunawardene, research assistant to Arthur C Clarke for over 20 years.  Nalaka has kindy allowed NFO to host this article for your viewing.  Percy B Molesworth operated out of Sri Lanka and gets a mention in Arthur C Clarke’s final publication (with Frederik Pohl) “The Last Theorem”.

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Not long to go now for the International Year of Astronomy AstroFest conference at South Kensington – February 6th & 7th.  Springer are pulling out all the stops to get copies of Star Vistas to AstroFest on time for a book signing.  Keep visiting this site for the latest news on this forthcoming event.  I intend to be at AstroFest 2009 on both days, so if you are planning to attend, just come up and say hello 🙂