Another really good evening for public stargazing. The first hour was clear but then some cloud and haze came in, but everyone still managed to view the Moon in all its glory and then Saturn with its (currently) edge-on rings. We had a couple of smart scopes, an 80mm APO […]
Well not quite ‘time variable’ stars like Cepheids … but Television stars … we made it onto the local Brighton TV Channel “Latest TV”.
Our new season has commenced – and our first public stargazing event at Helen Garden has been held and we had lots of attendees … and clear skies! Here are a couple of quick images from the evening – Comet Lemmon and the Seven Sisters Star Cluster. Everyone also viewed […]
The International Space Station (ISS) orbits the Earth every 90mins – it travels at about 17,000 mph and about 250 miles altitude. You can quite often catch a glimpse of it crossing the sky at morning or evening twilight when it reflects the Sun’s light. Occasionally it transits (crosses) the […]
As the weather seems to be getting sunnier … it seems to be time to wear a hat! So here is an image of the Sombrero Galaxy – Messier 104 in the Constellation of Virgo. It is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on approx. 29 million lightyears distant, and is […]
Hope you all saw the partial solar eclipse on Sat 29th March. Here is a time lapse taken with a ZWO Seestar S30.