Hi everyone Seems a bit quiet on the group so here is an observing report from tonight! I had the 15x50 (image stabilizing) binoculars for a session in the...
Hi all The forecast (on Metcheck) isn't brilliant but I'll be there at 12.30am tonight in case people turn up. Who is thinking of coming to Hauxley tonight? ...
Hi everyone Just a reminder that there will be a partial lunar eclipse on Thursday evening; it will be in progress as the moon rises over the eastern horizon. ...
Happy birthday to Austin for the 15th. I can only remember it because he showed me Kembles cascade NGC 1502 and then just dropped it into the conversation that...
Hi everyone It's been a fairly clear evening so I had the 16" LightBridge in the garden to do a spot of observing. I'm in Hadston and my local light pollution...
Hi everyone. Due to upgrading, i am selling my large binoculars. For those of you who have seen them, no description is nessesary. For everyone else they are...
Tonight looks like a great night to be out, am busy trying to learn my way around the sky a little bit at a time, cant wait to be able to know my way around...
Hi everyone, I had the 16" LightBridge set up in the garden the other night. The intention was to observe the Moon and Mars. From my observing log on ...
Below I have cut and pasted a write-up from the BAA website (http://britastro.org/baa/content/view/283/1/) about cuts in astronomy research funding. There is...
I don't know whether to believe it, since I am still drying out from the rain, BUT Metcheck is predicting only 26% cloud cover at 21:00 tonight. And the moon...
Hi everyone We've completed the move to our new house and we have the broadband. I've been bursting to tell someone how fantastic Mars looked through the 16" ...
Hi all, The planned meeting for the 2nd Thursday (13th) will now be held on Friday 14th at the usual time 19:30 to coincide with the Geminids meteor shower....
First observation of Comet Holmes with the 15x50 binoculars; a large, softly glowing golden ball near Mirfak in Perseus. It's easily visible to the unaided...
Hi everyone Just a quick note to say that I'll be offline in terms of my email for the next couple of weeks because of our house move. If there are any...
Hi everyone I've just been observing Comet Holmes with the 15x50 binoculars from my home in light-polluted Broomhill and it remains a fantastic sight....
Hi Adrian, it appears that Jenny has not been to see the images. She replied saying that she had received the link, so I suppose that the idea has died. ...
Hi everyone, this is a late report of Comet Holmes - delayed by internet problems. The comet was visible with the 15x50 binoculars in fairly bright twilight ...
I've been using some astronomy software on my PDA for the past few months that may be of interest to someone. Astromist is an application for the Palm PDA (or...
Hi all The moon will appear close to the Pleiades tonight and after 11.30pm it will pass in front of several of the brighter stars in the cluster. This is ...
Hello All, I have had niggles with a sore back for some time but noticed the problem has been exacerbated after observing sessions. Leaning over the Dobsonian...
Hi all, We are planning an evening observing the Orionids and a BBQ on Saturday 20th October in the car park of the Nature reserve at Hauxley. The radiant...
Hi all, A couple of weeks ago while two of us were observing a faint NGC Galaxy; someone asked us "How do you find things when you do not know where they are?"...
Anyone fancy observing at Hauxley tonight. The moon does not rise until about half past one tomorrow morning and is only 21% illuminated. The forecasts all...
Hi everyone, Metcheck is suggesting quite a bit of cloud cover tonight....but if it's wrong does anyone want to meet up later? At the moment there is quite a ...
