The Sun has quite a number of active areas on it at the moment, but only smallish ones. Here is the part of the disk that I could capture with the Grasshoppper mono camera and 50 inch focal length telescope, … Continue reading
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These two brilliant planets were at minimum, as observed from Edgware, just under a degree apart, so, very unusually, they were visible in the same telescope field at the 900mm focal length of my 100ED refractor.. I had never seen … Continue reading
The spring of 2023 sees an excellent apparition of Venus in the western sky (eastern elongation of Venus), with the planet high in a late afternoon or dusk sky. I have a campaign currently to image Venus in infra-red and … Continue reading
This was the start of my Mars observing campaign for the 2018 apparition. My method for coping with the very low altitude (no more than 17º) is to use the C-14 at native focal length (f/11), so obtaining a very … Continue reading
The forthcoming BAA Deep Sky Section meeting prompted me to process one of my sets of deep sky data which has been hanging around. This is a wide-field Rosette, taken with a modified DSLR from Outer London over two nights … Continue reading
I got this title from my friend Eric Emms (one of the organisers of the excellent Baker Street Irregular Astronomers), and when he came up with it on Twitter, I thought he has being rather rude about astro-imagers in general. All … Continue reading
This was my first image of 2016 and first of Jupiter this apparition. I had good seeing on the morning of the 1st, but transparency was rapidly falling when I took this, and there was a halo around the Moon … Continue reading
Here’s a hazy and low gibbous Moon from very early in the morning. Thanks to the magic of processing it comes out quite nice. This is just exactly the largest phase that can be fitted in in one go on a … Continue reading
A lucky brief break in the clouds allowed this capture of the conjunction of Venus and Saturn this morning. The two were 5 minutes of arc (1/6 Moon breadth) apart, 12 degrees high in the dawn twilight. (Click to enlarge) … Continue reading
It was a beautifully clear night here in Edgware, and the entire eclipse was visible, the first time this has happened since 4 March 2007. The eclipse was an extremely dark one, and it was apparent well before the first … Continue reading