I am writing this on Friday with a real buzz despite feeling fatigued. What a night, a real pleasure. As the weather forecast was for a bright evening with cloud […]
An Early Morning in the Solar System
I woke up at 0200 on Tuesday morning and could not get back to sleep. No matter how much I tried, I stubbornly stayed awake. In frustration I turned the […]
An Hour on Jupiter
What better way to start the day than watching Jupiter’s Great Red Spot rotating out of view. These pictures were taken for just over an hour on Friday before work. […]
Seeing Through A Timelapse
I helped at an outreach event at the Winchester Science Centre last month. This saw the Centre’s planetarium staying open late while us-volunteers showed the visitors the views through our telescopes. […]
Winter Star Party 2015 Report
My observing report from a surprisingly cold and blustery 2015 Winter Star Party has been published by the Webb Deep Sky Society. I had flown from the UK to the […]
3 planets and a comet before breakfast!
3 planets and a comet before breakfast! I had to take the day off on Wednesday to do the school run while my wife went to London. It was clear at […]
Morning Planets – Friday 13 November
I bought a second hand 150mm f12 Skywatcher Mak last week. This lovely scope will be my new travel scope now I am weekend commuting for a few months. It […]
Morning Planets from the Algarve
This observation was made on the last day of a family holiday near Faro in the Portuguese Algarve. We had flown out the previous Thursday. My throat was burning with […]
8 August 2015 – variable stars and timelapse
The two recent late nights are catching up with me so I decided to set up the camera and make a timelapse of the summer milky transiting past the yew […]
Observing Report: 7 August 2015
Yay! Another clear night. After yesterday’s session was cut short by cloud I was keen to continue working my way through the Herschel 400 – only another 200 or so […]