Hi All, If anyone has any contributions for Spacewatch for this month, or for the website, please will they send them to me at AbAstro@..., or simply...
Hi, Seems to be a bumper crop of talks on offer at the moment. Another public one is: The Halley Lecture Prof Ron Ekers, CSIRO 'Paths to discovery in...
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Looks funky through binoculars (all knobbly due to the topography at the Moon's edge), and I spot another object, only barely discernable without binoculars, a...
Observed crescent moon here, 2038UT, only 25.2 hours old if my Moon phases calendar's to be believed. It's between Venus and where the Sun set. -Stephen...
I managed to take a photo using my handheld digital camera down my tripod-mounted binoculars. Bit shaky but not too bad considering how it was taken. See the...
Good effort, Andrew, that's not far off what I saw through my binoculars. Yes, Stephen, that was Mercury (3 degrees) to the left of the moon. According to an...
Hi Stephen, Actually you were closer, after looking in Sky and Telescope magazine for May, I found that at 21.30 BST (20.30 UT) the moon was exactly 25 hours...
A couple of things for you all; over the next few days Venus will attain it's highest altitude in the evening sky, setting at the unbelievely late time of...
Did anyone hear Bill Heine's prog on Wednesday? His co-presenter was Chris Lintott. I never heard it because I was working, then went to Green College to...
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AAS are at the Blewbury festival on Saturday 23rd June 2007, between 11:00AM and 3:00PM at the Scout Hut on the Recreation Ground in Blewbury village (maps to...
Hello Ian, Just to say that, as long as no significant astronomical knowledge is really required, Marion and I will be there to help between 11.00am and 2.00pm...
Hello All, Just a reminder that the last main meeting of the season is next Monday, 11th June, 8:00PM. We have Dr. Andrew Ball from the Open University talking...
Well, I warned you at the meeting on Monday to watch out for noctilucent cloud so I hope you all saw the excellent display last night (Tuesday). The first...
About what time was this? I had a glance out my window to the north, around 11pm, but didn't see much (Uffington). I think some real clouds were getting in...
Yes I did. I was going to ask you about it. Unfortunately I did not get any images. It was hidden mostly by cloud from here but the silver colour was obvious...
Owen/Stephen First noticed them at about 10.30 (BST) when they were quite extensive across the north. They definitely had a bright silvery sheen 'behind' them...
Hi John, We used it once - a long time ago. I'm sure it's changed a lot since then though. Is it possible to download a demo? - it used to come from a company...