Happy New Year for 2011

Santa Maria in colour.

Detail from the edge of Santa Maria.

This crater is looking interesting!

A new angle to our solar system :) on Twitpic

A new angle to our solar system :) on Twitpic

New HDR sharpening techinique

Well new to me.
I tried it out on an old mosaic that I took of Clavius last year, about this time!

TipSquirrel.com

Inside Santa Maria - Navigation Camera :: Sol 2452

Snowflakes are dancing.

Opportunity at Santa Maria crater Sol 2450

Pec Pads

These are bloody brilliant. I bought them from Amazon.uk the other day. I've been having a few problems cleaning my Skynyx camera recently using cotton buds, they always leave dust bunnies behind. I found these on a camera cleaning site and they work an absolute treat.

Slowly does it.

Venus - 12th Dec 2010

The Moon 9th Dec 2010

Venus 9th Dec 2010

All iced up now!

Orion tonight.

12 x 10 second frames @1600ISO, zoom lens set at 18mm.

Falcon 9 launches Dragon spaceship

FOV calculator

This is nice, I've seen other versions that you can download, but this is a website. It has loads of scopes and cameras for both visual and imaging. Neat!

FOV Calculator

Cassini - back online.

Nice to see images from Cassini again.

N00165288.jpg was taken on November 30, 2010 and received on Earth December 01, 2010. The camera was pointing toward ENCELADUS at approximately 88,882 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute