Huge jump in sales of Star Vistas today on the U.K. Amazon site. No idea why. If you have seen a recent review somewhere – please let me know.

Managed to get today’s EPOD with a panoramic view over Burrator resevoir towards Leather Tor taken from the top of Sheepstor in Dartmoor National Park.  I know this area extremely well as I lived in the village of Walkhampton which is just a couple of miles away.  Thank you Jim for choosing an image of one of my most favourite parts of the U.K. for today’s EPOD.  By the way, the panorama is enormous and from memory was made up from around 50 frames from a Canon 40D DSLR.

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Managed to get today’s EPOD with an image of the asteroid Vesta leaving the constellation Leo – recently acquired from the New Forest Observatory.

I have seen a big jump in UK sales of Star Vistas over the last couple of days – absolutely no idea why.  Maybe there’s been a review somewhere that I haven’t seen.  Whatever the reason – enjoy!!

Don’t forget – all the images you see in Star Vistas were acquired at the New Forest Observatory in Brockenhurst.  You can see all the images in Star Vistas, and plenty more new ones on the New Forest Observatory web site.

Managed to get today’s EPOD with the stunning NGC1333 and surrounding dust clouds image.  Thank you Jim for posting this one, we believe it is one of our best ever

Star Vistas is now below $7!  Even with postage from the States, you can now get Star Vistas for less than half the U.K. Amazon price – extraordinary!

We had a few clear nights in a row recently and I concentrated on just one object – IC2169 – a beautiful reflection nebula in Monoceros.  9 hours total exposure time using 4-minute subs from the New Forest Observatory.  Processing by Noel Carboni, Florida, U.S.A.  The little golden open cluster at bottom/left is OCL494 or Trumpler 5.

Another candidate for Star Vistas II