Shameless self plug - article in Astronomy Now

[robbieince]

Hi

In an act of shameless self congratulation I thought I'd let you guys know that i have been lucky enough to get an article I have written accepted and published in the august 2012 issue of Astronomy Now. Its about the Kielder Deep Field, a project i did at the spring 2012 Kielder star party, where I imaged the Hubble Deep Field North with my Orion Optics AG8 to see how deep (and distant) I could record.

Let me know what you think

[DirkSteele]

Nothing wrong with a little self promotion

Congratulations, I will be sure to check it out.

Clear skies

[Black Knight]

Congrats and well done . I shall look forward to having a squint at that!

[Bluemaris]

Congratulations!

You may not have thought of this, but perhaps your post could be seen by some as an act of shameless self-congratulation

Not me, though.

Is the August Issue out yet?

[nmoushon]

That's awesome! Congrats! I will have to look for it. Make sure to bump this article again when it comes out because I have bad memory lol

[Andy6SE]

I read the article this morning on the train to work! Good stuff and very impressive getting down to mag 22.8!!

I just wish they'd printed the pictures on the same page for easier comparison of your image (zoomed in) and the hubble image.

Let's hope the forecasts are correct and we'll have a bit of clear skies (at least in the south east) from Sunday onwards....

[Rakanishu]

Keeping an eye out for it. Congratulations

[starnut]

well done

[m.tweedy]

Well done Robbie. Add it to the CV

[barkis]

Nothing wrong with blowing ones own trumpet Rob.

Amateur Astronomy needs successes like yours, to get the message out there, that amateurs

have an important role in all the sciences that make up Astronomy, and contribute enormously to

to it.

Well done, and feel free to shout your successes around SGL's corridoors as much as you like .

Ron.

[Cloudwatcher]

Read the article,seen the pictures,all good stuff.

(Like the wellies )

[Freff]

Good concise article, a great read well done.

[beamish]

Nice one Robbie- look fwd to reading that, haven't ripped the plastic off yet tho

[Astro Imp]

Well done.

I look forward to reading your piece when I get my copy of AN.

[steppenwolf]

I read and enjoyed this article last night - very interesting indeed.

[sologuitarist61]

Very well done and thanks for letting us know - that is the only trouble with SGL, you do not know who the people are, so for all I know I could be reading your article everytime I read an astro mag. Well done again.

[Auntystatic]

Its a repeat

I read it here first ages ago

[Shibby]

I also read your article with great interest last night, so thanks for the opportunity to congratulate you directly on your success! HUDF next?

[robbieince]

Thanks everyone - all comments very much appreciated. I think the subscribers get it first - it hit my doormat on Wednesday and I think its on general sale this weekend.

CW - wellies are a must for astronomy at Kielder, but it is clear enough to make it worth it....

Andy6SE - I agree, it would have made more sense to have the HDF and the KDF on the same page, also I hoped the table of magnitudes etc would have been next to the actual final image - but no matter.

m.tweedy - dont you know it.... hopefully get the chance to talk about it with some certain important Scottish people in a fortnight.... (pm me if you don't know what that means...) ;o)

Shibby - Not sure about the HUDF - isn't that in the southern skies? I think the next step is to replicate it from home, both unfiltered and with light pollution filters and see what difference it actually makes being at a dark sky site......

Thanks again to you all.

[stev74]

I'm looking forward to reading your article Robbie, I thought it was a brilliant idea when I saw your thread on here a while back. I'm sure It's already been suggested at some point but it would make a great talk at a star party or two..... Kielder or Galloway would be a good start!

Also good luck with the Scottish thing Robbie, it would be amazing if you got it!

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[robbieince]

Many thanks Steve - Richard Darn has already booked me to talk about this at the Autumn 2012 Kielder star party and I guess I will be open to any other requests.

[stev74]

Many thanks Steve - Richard Darn has already booked me to talk about this at the Autumn 2012 Kielder star party and I guess I will be open to any other requests.

Brilliant, well I'll definitely be there on the Saturday with a few other CSOG'ers I'd imagine.

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[MAN or ASTROMAN]

Congratulations! I received my copy of AN yesterday,so I'll certainly read your article,especially as I live in the North East of England.

[cs1cjc]

I am *very* impressed by the number of distant objects you captured! I suspect that your set up and time cost somewhat less than Hubble! Have you done a cost per photon comparison?

[hunterknox]

I think you missed a trick in not calling it the "humble deep field" but it's a neat article and a great project - well done!