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
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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
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