Scientific Artist

Sirius “Louey”, honorary human 18th May 2006 – 5th March 2014, far too soon

This is a Hyperstar III image of the recent supernova in galaxy M82.

15 subs at 4-minutes per sub taken on January 25th 2014 during a short break between all the clouds and rain.

Where are the peer-reviewed Journal papers in a quality publication to back up your claims?

But will we get 10-minutes of clear sky to image it?

Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) http://epod.usra.edu/ with the recent “12 brightest stars” montage I put together.

Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work

Using the Canon 200mm prime lens at f#4.5 and the M25C 6-Megapixel one shot colour CCD.  Only 6 x 15-minute subs for this one, clearly I need to get a LOT more data on this when it comes round again next year.  I have now moved the 200mm lens onto the top plate of the mini-WASP array and have fitted one of the 10-Megapixel M26C cameras to the back.  Just need to get the chip flattened to the lens and then I’ll be ready for the winter goodies – weather permitting.

Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with “Fibonacci Spirals in the Garden”

Thank you Jim at EPOD http://epod.usra.edu/ for continuing to publish my work.

Not had the opportunity to image this one yet (non-stop rain) but here is an asterism the bears a strong resemblance to the Greek letter Lambda.

Will grab this one with the mini-WASP array at the first opportunity – until then it’ll be this DSS2 data

Arrived today  This is clearly a labour of love.  Beautifully presented, oozing quality, and very fine attention paid to the detail throughout.  I had the honour of going through Brian’s Ph.D. thesis on “A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud” some years ago.  This thesis differed very significantly from every other thesis that I had gone through during my 23 years at Southampton University.  How did it differ?  There was not a single spelling mistake, not a single typo error, no grammatical errors, no errors with the presentation of any of the diagrams, and of course no errors of fact.  With 23 years in higher education – I had not seen such a perfect piece of work produced in a Ph.D. thesis before.  What has this got to do with “Diableries”?  You get the same presentation in Diableries as you got in the thesis.  Word perfect, perfect layout, extreme attention to image quality and detail – Brian is clearly a perfectionist – and Diableries is an example of stereoscopic perfection available for you to appreciate in front of a roaring log fire this winter.  Superb job Brian

Yesterday’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) was my process of the DSS2 data of the Pleiades region.

This was EPOD number 54 for me

Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.