"Images of the universe on our doorstep"

As you can see the website is just in its infancy. Its just about started crawling, is probably capable of drooling on your shoes, and maybe even serving a few choice pages. Maintenance of low expectations is probably warranted in the medium term :)

I'll be updating the site on a semi-irregular basis and have a backlog of images to put up at some point. Have a browse around via the menus above and come back again soon.

Latest News

2008 06 19
Mysterious object in Cygnus mosaic - Solved!? Sung-Nan Lin provides likely explanation.
2008 06 17
Wow, almost a year since the last real update of the site!... New All Sky Camera project that provides real-time images and time-lapse movies of the sky, day and night, 24/7. Stay tuned for news of new observatory's construction and installation of new instruments that's been taking place over the last year.
2007 08 17
A long time since I put anything up on the site, so here's a quick update. I recently had the luck to spend a night under the stars during a pack trip in the US Eastern Sierras. I shot ~2hrs of 30sec exposures with a Canon 300D DSLR, generating a few seconds worth of fisheye lens Milky Way time lapse movie [Warning 6.4MB download]. It shows the milky way rotating across the sky reasonably well. XviD codec required. If you don't have it, the CCCP Codec Pak is a quick way to get the codec installed. Most of the firefly tracks you see are aircraft, but a few are Perseid meteors. Here's a composite star trails picture of all the frames in the movie, and a cropped single frame of the brightest Perseid from the sequence.
2007 03 22
Added the Heart & Soul Nebulae to the gallery.
2007 03 21
Reprocessed the Cygnus mosaic to better emphasise the dimmer nebulosity and dark rivers.
Minor updates to DSLR serial control cable page.
2007 02 25
Finished developing generic page template for gallery items. Added image details to the Cygnus mosaic page.
2007 02 22
Site temporarily down for a couple of days due to dns configuration error
2007 02 06
Site goes live
Basic structure in place: menus, search, translation.
Minimal content: About, Equipment, old standalone DSLR serial control cable page completely revamped and revised
Images: Northern Cygnus mosaic, IC1396

   
         
 
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