Star Vistas

Big – BIG – jump in sales of Star Vistas on U.K. Amazon today

Greg — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:28:49 +0000

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.

Globular cluster M56 in Lyra

Greg — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:27:26 +0000

A globular cluster with the Milky Way in the background – constellation Lyra.

The Cocoon nebula in Cygnus

Greg — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:26:09 +0000

Data collected about a week ago from the New Forest Observatory – this is the Cocoon nebula and associated dark nebulosity in Cygnus.

An animation with astronomical applications

Greg — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:40:30 +0000

O.K. so this animation of a cactus flower opening overnight doesn’t look like it has a lot to do with Star Vistas – BUT – I can use the same technique with the Canon 40D and the TC-80N3 timer/controller to do the same thing with night sky images. So the idea is to get the 15mm fisheye lens on to the Canon 40D – point skywards – and then take a sequence of sky shots and see what we get. This is going to be an extremely interesting experiment

EPOD today – Dartmoor land of granite

Greg — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 07:39:27 +0000

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.

Check out C2I for new photography courses:

Greg — Sat, 29 May 2010 10:16:21 +0000

Please check out my Concept2Innovation web site for more details on Introductory photographic courses at the New Forest Observatory.

Check out NFO for exciting new photography courses

Greg — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:22:06 +0000

Please check out my New Forest Observatory web site for details of new exciting photography courses tailored to your requirements.

Marooned off Vesta

Greg — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:01:34 +0000

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

Jump in UK Star Vistas sales!

Greg — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:33:11 +0000

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!!

Visit New Forest Observatory dot com

Greg — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:03:12 +0000

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.