“Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.” – from…
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“Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.” – from…
If you live in the northern hemisphere, far overhead during the summer and autumn months is the constellation Cygnus the swan. Sadr is the pulsating…
This is a first light image of a telescope that I had for a couple of weeks. Taken in the Hydrogen-Alpha narrowband wavelength of light…
I haven’t blogged for a while on my astronomical obsession hobby, so I thought I’d post a few pictures of the new cooled CCD, filter…
I spent today with Patrick Moore (he told me not to call him ‘Sir’) and a few members of my local astronomy group (HantsAstro –…
My (second hand) OIII filter arrived today. It’s a filter that blocks all light except for that around the frequency emitted from doubly-ionised Oxygen. Why…
At a mere 20 light years away, this red dwarf star has a planet in orbit around it that might be able to support the…
The latest photographs from my Flickr Astronomy photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikewphotos/sets/72157625299582469/with/5655262499/ The Leo Doublet (M65/M66), commonly known as a pair of galaxies within the Leo Triplet, a…
I was watching BBC Sky at Night while convalescing with man-flu and I caught a glimpse on TV of a familiar view of Saturn as…
I’ve had ten nights so far in my astronomy-imaging hobby and I finally feel like my rig is getting there and I’m able to (given…
