Yearly Archives: 2025


ISS Solar Transit – 12th June 2025

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 […]


Sombrero Galaxy

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 […]