We again attended the annual Herstmonceux Astronomy Festival and Star Party held at the Observatory Science Centre on Fri 28th Aug to Sun 30th Aug. Friday was OK but Saturday was gales and rain, with Sunday dry but cloudy. Hopefully a good time was had by all attendees who managed […]
Hope you all saw it – a bit mad up at Beachy Head but we managed to set up some scopes and show the spectacle through a telescope or two – and get rid of 300 pairs of eclipse glasses!
We will holding a public observing session for the partial solar eclipse on Wed 12th August 2026. This is a 93% eclipse from Eastbourne and will be low in the evening western sky – lasting from 6:18pm to 8:08pm. It is a total solar eclipse in Greenland, Iceland, Spain and […]
Sunday 6th June 2026. As our lectures are held at Willingdon Memorial Hall we support this event each year. We bring our gazebo and solar telescopes to hopefully observe the Sun and lots of observing guides to hand out whilst we explain everything astronomical to interested bystanders.
Well – another great evening for observing at Helen Garden on Sat 24th January. We had around 200 eager observers young and old, who saw the Moon close-up and the majority saw Jupiter, and its cloud bands and Galilean moons before it eventually clouded over. Lots of warming coffees and […]
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 […]