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Pleiades and Orion
Had a good night in the garden earlier this week. Wonderful sight of a Cresent Moon, Venus and Jupiter all together in a line. I set up my telescope with the Skywatcher 80ED Pro and Canon 350d to try...
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Venus and Jupiter in harmony
A beautiful sight last night of the conjunction with Venus and Jupiter at their closest point together in the West. I can't remember ever seeing this before with such bright objects in the sky...
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Venus and Mars
Had a lovely night in the garden last night. Venus was beautiful, Jupiter quitelow down. Mars high up.Took these images with my Skywatcher 80ED Pro andPhilips Toucam Pro II. These are 2000 frames at 10...
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Our Moon and Jupiter's Moons
This is a lovely photo taken last night of our cresent Moon with the Earthshine and Jupiter with some of it's Moons. (Click photo to enlarge)There are some amazing sights in the sky with the constant...
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Venus and Pleiades
A beautiful sight of Venus and Pleiades together. I didn't take the scopeoutside, I took the photos with my Canon EOS350d with a 200mm zoom lens mountedon a tripod in my back garden. The last photo is...
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Make an ED80 Solar Filter
I have a Skywatcher 80ED Pro Telescope and have decided to make a Solar Filter so that I can view and image our nearest star, the Sun. First I bought some Baader AstroSolar Safety Film which cost about...
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Solar filter results
My first attempt at taking photos of the Sun. These images of the Sun were taken late in the afternoon on 12th May with my Skywatcher 80ED Pro and the Baader Solar Filter that I made. The sunspots are...
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Neil Armstrong
He reached for the Moon, now he is with the stars!Sad new about Neil Armstrong, he was a great guy, didn't want to rule the world, just be a normal person who inspired the young.I am proud to have...
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Respect
A nice picture! Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin at Neil Armstrong's Memorial Service. It is very strange on television because I expected to see lots of things about the Apollo Missions, but nothing!...
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I just watched an amazing video of Curiosity landing on Mars! I don't know why they haven't shown this on the BBC news or any other news for that matter... Something as incredible as this is not even...
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International Space Station
A beautiful sunny day, gosh...we have not had many of those this year! Tonight was clear and we had a pass of the ISS at 19.52pm. Although I have been reading the magazines and watching the Horizon...
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Lenticular Clouds?
This afternoon we had some beautiful cloud formations. I am trying to decide whether these are in fact Lenticular Clouds. They could be seen in the West and appear to line up with North winds that blew...
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Autumn Sun
The Sun today with yellow filter fittedl.A beautiful sunny day and the last day before we put the clocks back...so today I set up my Skywatcher 80ED to try to capture a final image before Winter of the...
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Yule Moon
A beautiful sight on Wednesday of the Yule Moon with Jupiter sitting just 1 degree from it on a cold, crisp night. As the Moon was in the East, I cannot see it properly from my back garden, so took...
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Apollo 17..40 years ago today!
Today was a sad day 40 years ago, the very last Apollo mission, Apollo 17 launched at night to the Moon for the very last Moon landing. I wonder if we will ever go back to the Moon?This morning when I...
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Patrick Moore
Sad new today about the death of Sir Patrick. An honourable man who inspired many from different generations.Last night I stayed up late watch 'Sky at Night' about Mercury and Apollo 17. The last...
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Compact Ranger 30x30 telescope
This is my very first telescope that I got for Christmas when I was nine years old.When I was at primary school one of my friends was Steve McGuffie. He was in my class and new lots of facts about...
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Hallgrimur's Church
This is and amazing piece of of archetecture in Reykjavík, Iceland. It looks just like a Space Shuttle!Well, it seems that the Mayan Calendar didn't mean that the world would end today after all. I...
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Celestron Firstscope
I treated myself to one of these for Christmas!A few weeks ago I borrowed one of these to see for myself how this tiny Newtonian would perform. The one I borrowed was the SkyWatcher Firstscope, but it...
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