Star Vistas» News http://www.starvistas.com A Gallery of Fine Art Astrophotography Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:28:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.starvistas.com http://www.starvistas.com/favicon_stars.ico Star Vistas Big – BIG – jump in sales of Star Vistas on U.K. Amazon today http://www.starvistas.com/2010/07/28/big-big-jump-in-sales-of-star-vistas-on-u-k-amazon-today/ http://www.starvistas.com/2010/07/28/big-big-jump-in-sales-of-star-vistas-on-u-k-amazon-today/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:28:49 +0000 Greg http://www.starvistas.com/?p=447 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.

]]> http://www.starvistas.com/2010/07/28/big-big-jump-in-sales-of-star-vistas-on-u-k-amazon-today/feed/ 0 EPOD today – Dartmoor land of granite http://www.starvistas.com/2010/06/06/epod-today-dartmoor-land-of-granite/ http://www.starvistas.com/2010/06/06/epod-today-dartmoor-land-of-granite/#comments Sun, 06 Jun 2010 07:39:27 +0000 Greg http://www.starvistas.com/?p=433 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.

]]> http://www.starvistas.com/2010/06/06/epod-today-dartmoor-land-of-granite/feed/ 0 Check out C2I for new photography courses: http://www.starvistas.com/2010/05/29/check-out-c2i-for-new-photography-courses/ http://www.starvistas.com/2010/05/29/check-out-c2i-for-new-photography-courses/#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 10:16:21 +0000 Greg http://www.starvistas.com/?p=431 Please check out my Concept2Innovation web site for more details on Introductory photographic courses at the New Forest Observatory.

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]]> http://www.starvistas.com/2010/04/25/check-out-nfo-for-exciting-new-photography-courses/feed/ 0 Marooned off Vesta http://www.starvistas.com/2010/04/09/marooned-off-vesta/ http://www.starvistas.com/2010/04/09/marooned-off-vesta/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:01:34 +0000 Greg http://www.starvistas.com/?p=425 Managed to get today’s EPOD with an image of the asteroid Vesta leaving the constellation Leo – recently acquired from the New Forest Observatory.

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]]> http://www.starvistas.com/2010/03/27/jump-in-uk-star-vistas-sales/feed/ 0 Visit New Forest Observatory dot com http://www.starvistas.com/2010/03/22/visit-new-forest-observatory-dot-com/ http://www.starvistas.com/2010/03/22/visit-new-forest-observatory-dot-com/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:03:12 +0000 Greg http://www.starvistas.com/?p=421 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.

]]> http://www.starvistas.com/2010/03/22/visit-new-forest-observatory-dot-com/feed/ 0 EPOD – Earth Science Picture of the Day – NGC1333 and dust clouds in Perseus http://www.starvistas.com/2010/02/21/epod-earth-science-picture-of-the-day-ngc1333-and-dust-clouds-in-perseus/ http://www.starvistas.com/2010/02/21/epod-earth-science-picture-of-the-day-ngc1333-and-dust-clouds-in-perseus/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:36:06 +0000 Greg http://www.starvistas.com/?p=417 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 :)

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]]> http://www.starvistas.com/2010/02/18/amazon-dot-com/feed/ 0 IC2169 reflection nebula in Monoceros http://www.starvistas.com/2010/02/13/ic2169-reflection-nebula-in-monoceros/ http://www.starvistas.com/2010/02/13/ic2169-reflection-nebula-in-monoceros/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:52:40 +0000 Greg http://www.starvistas.com/?p=413 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.

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Another candidate for Star Vistas II :)

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