Spent some time on Saturday observing the Sun with my Coronado PST telescope. There were a couple of nice prominences on view. Here is the best one:- ...
Amazing image of the Sun there Simon, thanks for sharing. Lydia Simon Murray <spmurray33@...> wrote: Spent some time on Saturday observing the Sun with...
Looks like an interesting place, I like the 'planets' idea. Where abouts is Kielder? What type of telescope does the observatory house? Lydia Simon Murray...
Hi Simon, ... I've snagged this for the web page. :) Every year, I try to add some kind of common theme to the poster and web pages. Typically, I grab an image...
Lydia, Its 80km north west of Newcastle on the English/Scottish border. Its one of the darkest sites in England but unfortunately the wettest too! ...
David, Thats fine. Most of my images are here:- http://www.geocities.com/spmurray33/55DegN.html <http://www.geocities.com/spmurray33/55DegN.html> They are all...
David, Most of the images are in jpg format so they don't have a dpi attribute (although windows explorer makes up 96dpi for the images and adobe 72 dpi) The...
David, Most of my images are here:- www.geocities.com/spmurray33 If you want to include any that's great. I should have some higher...
David, When I checked the properties of these images they would say 72dpi in adobe & 96dpi in windows explorer. So what’s going on there? A google...
Hello, Simon and I have been discussing updates to the web pages and we'd like to throw the discussion open to the members of the forum. So far, we intend to...
David  I think we should be careful we don’t rehash what’s available elsewhere and keep it relevant to our area and members.  So for example in August...
Hi Simon, ... I think a balancing act is required. We should provide a resource centre with the aim of attracting people and then keeping them coming back for...
A Friday afternoon thought…  The summer solstice occurs tonight at 23:59 GMT.  The solar correction (equation of time) for our location today is -1 min...
Simon, ... The weather tonight looks good. I hope that we will be able to take a walk up to the local nature reserve and celebrate, maybe take something to...
The NAS recently purchased a new telescope for the society see here it's great to have one after all these years. Usually members bring their own but this is...
Hi Lydia, I've been checking out the NAS web page. It's very impressive but seems slow. Simon, if you haven't already, have a look. Lots of inspiration for our...
Yes its good. Â I like the viewing night section:- Â If it's been raining for a few days the grounds usually are still wet and muddy and cannot be accessed....
... I've been away from the group site for some time. The scope that you rescued is brilliant. David, I've got a hunch that this is from the old Heaton Manor...
A different set of observing challenges - i bet its not really cold though! True. Compared to your viewing conditions? ok then:) We have been having a lot of...
Yes thanks for that. I have been trying fix this problem from the begining. I'm using 'frontpage' for editiong which I was informed at my 'website design'...
Hi Tom, ... Sorry, no. This one came from Walbottle Campus and was presented to the school by Grubb Parsons in 1984 to celebrate the centenary of the invention...
Lydia, ... Professor Stephenson told us of our society's first President, the Reverend Espin, and his experiences observing at Tow Law at the turn of the 19th...
Lydia, ... Frontpage, like most programmes of their ilk, suck (like a hoover). You'd be better off hand coding, which sounds horrible but once you get the hang...
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