One thing Sir Patrick knew how to do was throw a party! He loved people, his house was always full of visitors, and he liked to party. The greatest ambassador we had for astronomy and for astronomers – this will … Continue reading
Beautiful clear Moonless sky last night until just after midnight. Started imaging at 5:55 p.m. one of my earliest starts, so ended up with 7 hours of total imaging time on the mini-WASP array (which equates to 21 hours of … Continue reading
Noel applied his talents to last night’s Mu Cephei data taken using 3 scopes + cameras on the mini-WASP array. Unfortunately, as I hadn’t taken any flats Noel was not able to properly flatten this data, but even so, he … Continue reading
Managed to grab a quick hour and a half between the clouds tonight on the mini-WASP array using all 3 imagers. Got the Garnet star in Cepheus which lies on the edge of the huge emission nebula IC1396. If you … Continue reading
There was a programme the other night, I think on Channel 4 about possible alien creatures being found on Earth. I love this stuff so I watched the programme. Highly disappointing right from the off. These “alien” creatures weren’t very … Continue reading
One of my favourite regions of sky, I have to return time and time again to all that bright Cygnus nebulosity, I find it amazing. This image of the North America/Pelican region is a composite using both Sky 90/M25C and … Continue reading
