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 […]
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.
Taken with an iPhone 15 Pro – hand held – at Beachy Head on 17th Oct 2024.
Aurora from Willingdon on 10th Oct 2024. This is the second time this year we have seen some great views of the aurora from as far south as Eastbourne. Why? It is solar maximum (an 11 year cycle) – so there are more sunspots and hence more chance of solar […]