Hi, Has anyone caught these new sunspots (see below) with a suitable filtered telescope as not to blind themselves? The are fascinating in my Coronado...
yep :-) I had my 'filtered' scope on it yesterday afternoon. It's fascinating to observe sun spots - and not as cold. I was charging the battery on my laptop...
Hi, If anyone is looking for a local firm to re-coat their telescope mirrors - try this one below. You can drop off & collect your mirrors. ROBERT JOHN...
Hi, I've updated the news page on http://www.newcastleastronomical.org.uk with the meeting notes from the local socities meeting including a history of...
Hi all, an Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley on July 19 has photographed an image of a new dark spot on Jupiter its all over the news ...links...
... I will be at my observing site in Provence tomorrow. Just checked out spaceweather and the mark on Jupiter is still visible though stretched into an L...
Just received my new book it's a copy of 'Lunar and Planetary webcam user's guide.' by Martin Mobberley :-) from Amazon. I'm very impressed with it, very...
Jay, I look forward to seeing some more of your Jupiter shots over the next few months. ... From: jay27130 <jay2713@...> Subject: [newcastle_astro] New...
Hi, The Perseid meteor shower is about to peak over the next two nights. The forecast isn't too good for tonight although it may clear up slightly after...
... The laser pen is excellent and the toucam is well better than the LPI. I imaged Jupiter on the 4th and got transit of Io showing Io and its shadow. Ive put...
Glad you like the laser pen Tom :-) Outstanding photo - cracking effort. I'm looking forward to seeing the others. I'm having a little bother with my 'scope...
Hi, I went up to Hexham Racecourse with Graham Fraser for the Perseids. It had looked good but 70% cloud cover interrupted much of our session from 10:15pm...
My girlfriend and I tried last night. A combination of high cloud and light pollution meant we had no luck. She got colder than I did, faster than I did so I...
... I hate to say it but here in Bergundy last night we had a really dark sky and were treated to some fantastic Perseids shooting through the Milky Way....
... I'll pop that in the diary! We actually went out last year for the Perseids and got a good show, and the other half really enjoyed it, so I will...
... Sounds like a good night. It seems that the scope functions well. Here in Whitley Bay I imaged the occultation from about 10pm to 1.00am. The GRS made an...
Hi, Last night I revisited one of my favourite objects to be seen from suburban skies - the Ring Nebula. Its a bright irregular ring structure. It lies...
I thought you might be interested in an animation of this occultation. I took images every 5 mins. Pretty tedious task and Jupiter is rather wobbly. If anyone...
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