Hi, Â The forecast looks reasonable for tonight? Â Anyone interested in a trip to Vallum Farm? Â Simon Hi, The forecast looks reasonable for tonight? Anyone...
Hi,  Its 7:45pm and there is 70% cloud cover with a rainbow!  Since there is little interest tonight and the conditions are unconvincing I'm going to...
Hi, we had to cancel a school viewing event twice because of clouds and both times the day before was clear, go figure;) (Break a leg) aka good luck with the...
I spent an hour or so last night observing from light polluted Denton Burn. I was using my Meade 8*63 binoculars mounted on a tripod. Â Armed with my...
Simon, I was most impressed with your hour with binoculars. I've thought for some time we should have a talk about the night sky, finding your way around...
Folks, The calendar for the 2008/2009 season is available on the web site for your inspection and approval. If you spit a tpying wristache, a bad date or a...
Hello, I plan to add a resources page to the web site in the next couple of weeks, essentially to help those new to astronomy quickly find information in the...
David,  A few months back I've added a number of sites to the link page of this yahoo group. Some of these maybe suitable to use?  Simon ... From: David...
Folks, From Sunderland Astronomical Society's web page: Durham University: Joint lecture with the Royal Met Society Sir Arnold Wolfendale – Cosmic radiation...
David,  The idea has merit.  However i don't have a tent & equipment (or a camper van!).  Since its only 50 miles away there is nothing really stopping...
Tom, Â I see you have added a few new photographs. I particularly like the shot on M57. Its small size makes it a difficult to image. Â Can you provide some...
Hi Simon, ... Neither do I. I wasn't suggesting an over-night stay!!! The last time we went camping we swore never, ever to do that again. Horrid experience....
... I used the DSI pro camera. I'm still taking single shots as jpegs. I used a dark frame to subtract the noise from the camera. Processing was with a kernal...
Folks, I would very much appreciate it if someone would have a look at the society's poster and let me know if there are any typos or mistakes in the...
Tom,  How many shots did you stack? Have you tried to using the filter in moonlight. I've seen some great results in moonlight and with H-alpha filters. I...
... The image was taken with a single shot exposure of about 11s- so no stacking. The dark frame subtract made a big difference. I have recently purchased a...
... Couldn't access poster from the hyperlink (access denied- error 403- whatever that means). Accessed poster through website though. The gallery of images on...
Tom, Â I guess because of the size of the CCD chip, 11 seconds is your maximum exposure length? Â It's well worth trying to stack some of the images. Its...
... I think the DSI will go to about 60mins exposure. The problem I have is that I cannot currently set K3CCD to capture avi files from the DSI so that I can...
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