Image of the Month – April 2013
[See image gallery at newforestobservatory.com] The image of the month for April 2013 is the stunning red star Mu Cephei. As you know, I really like the impact the bright single star images have,...
View ArticleImage of the Month – May 2013
[See image gallery at newforestobservatory.com] The Image of the Month for May 2013 is the recent reprocess of the Coathanger Cluster (Al Sufi’s cluster, Collinder 399) in the constellation Vulpecula....
View ArticleImage of the Month – June 2013
[See image gallery at newforestobservatory.com] Yes – another single star picture for this month’s Image of the Month. Polaris, the Pole star, the North star, Alpha Ursa Minor – the Navigator’s...
View ArticleImage of the Month – July 2013
[See image gallery at newforestobservatory.com] This is a 5-frame mosaic put together using Noel Carboni’s Astronomy Tools for Photoshop and DSS2 red and blue channel data. I seriously question why I...
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Image of the Month – August 2013
For this DSS2 image of the Tulip nebula region in Cygnus I just kept adding frames until the computer gave up [See image gallery at newforestobservatory.com]
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Image of the Month – September 2013
[See image gallery at newforestobservatory.com] I see the Image of the Month didn’t pop up a couple of days back. Either I didn’t do one or it’s lost in cyberspace. Never mind, here’s one a couple...
View ArticleImage of the Month – October 2013
[See image gallery at newforestobservatory.com] This month’s image is a wide-field taken using the amazing Canon EF200 f#2.8 prime lens and a Canon 5D MkII DSLR. Piggy-back mounted on the C11 I took...
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Deep-sky Image of the Month – IOM for May 2015
I feel in such a good mood having just completed the mega-WASP upgrade that I think I will resurrect the almost forgotten Image of the Month Here is the very recent Polaris image taken with the...
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Deep-Sky Image of the Month October 2015
As it is the first of the month today – it is a good day to resurrect the Deep-Sky Image of the Month Just taken recently, I have chosen the Sky 90/M26C 4-framer of Kemble’s Cascade taken just a few...
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Image of the Month November 2015
Going back to 28th September we had the most amazing total Lunar eclipse, this image captured using a Canon 5D MkII on a TS80 triplet at f#6 all sitting on a tripod, shows pre-totality, totality, and...
View ArticleDeep – Sky Image of the Week
A while back I asked for submissions to run a deep-sky image of the week from this site. The response was not good. In which case I will post up a deep-sky image of the week from my own collection....
View ArticleIOM – Image of the Month September 2016
I have decided that the image for this month is the one you can see below – the very deep Canon 200mm prime lens single-framer of Cassiopeia from the Gamma Cass nebula (IC59/63) all the way down to the...
View ArticleNew Forest Observatory – Image of the Month
A couple of nights ago I managed to grab 24 x 20-minute subs of the M52 region using the 2 x Canon 200mm prime lenses and 2 x Trius M26C 10-Megapixel OSC CCDs. I had to shut down for an hour in the...
View ArticleDecember 2016 Deep-Sky Image of the Month
Got the final bit of data on this one last night. This is a 2-framer using the Canon 200mm prime lenses and Trius M26C OSC CCDs on top of the Paramount ME. Main North America frame is 9 hours and...
View ArticlePicture of the Month – February 2019
Aldebaran and the Hyades has been looking splendid on any clear Moonless night this Winter. This is a 2.5 frame mosaic taken with the 200mm lenses and Trius M26C OSC CCDs. You don’t often see images...
View ArticleMarch 2019 – Image of the Month
[See image gallery at newforestobservatory.com] This is the recent M44 (Beehive Cluster) within the “Stargate”. The two bright red stars over to the far left are both Carbon stars. Image taken with...
View ArticleApril 2019 Image of the Month
[See image gallery at newforestobservatory.com] Image of the Month for April is the recent very deep capture of Coddington’s Nebula (a galaxy) in Ursa Major. This image has the added bonus of a Carbon...
View ArticleMay 2019 Image of the Month
As we are now in Galaxy season it is appropriate to choose a Galaxy image from the New Forest Observatory archives. So for the May 2019 Image of the Month I have chosen a Canon 200mm lens plus Trius...
View ArticleJune 2019 Image of the Month
As there are virtually no hours of darkness over the next couple of months – this is the time of year to clean up the observatory. Clean the fibreglass dome, repaint the decking, Hoover out the...
View ArticleJuly 2019 Image of the Month
As we still do not have any hours of darkness this is another month where there are no images from the New Forest Observatory. I really wonder why I bother with this hobby sometimes.
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