Swansea Astronomical Society Blog

Equipment used: A solar Quest Solar finder and tracker mount. A Coronado CaK PST scope. A Coronado Solarmax II 60 BF15 H-alpha scope. An Alt...

I imaged the Sun this afternoon using the Lunt50 and Hypercam178.  There were some clouds around so I only managed a few captures using Shar...

The Sun in White and Hydrogen Alpha Light: Using AstroDMx Capture I took two SER's of the Sun today using my Player One Apollo-M-Mini ca...

 Lyrid meteor:  I got just one Lyrid meteor last night out of 400 images taken! This was a 30s exposure at F1.4 with a Sigma 23mm lens at ju...

 I captured some meteors from the Lyrids meteor shower last night, 21 to 22 April 2025. I used my old allsky camera comprising a Altair GPca...

Equipment used: A solar Quest Solar finder and tracker mount. A Coronado CaK PST scope. A Coronado Solarmax II 60 BF15 H-alpha scope. An Alt...

M101 (The Pinwheel galaxy): Four hours of LRGB/Ha data taken on the night of the 19th of April using a Sky-Watcher Esprit 80ED triplet refra...

The Vacuum Cleaner Galaxy,  M109 (NGC 3992), is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 67 ± 23 million light-years away in Ursa Major. Click o...

 Click on a sketch to get a closer view Jim Startup

Howard Davies has been interested X-Ray astronomy for a long time and gave a very thoroughly researched and well presented talk in person an...

An Altair Starwave Ascent 60 ED doublet refractor with Field flattener-reducer and a Pegasus FocusCube V2, and fitted with an Altair 2” Magn...

My image of the Leo Triplet taken with my 1300D DSLR Canon camera mounted on my 80ED APO Refractor Skywatcher telescope with a field flatten...

82 mins of RGB of the Spindle Galaxy (NGC 3115) taken with a Sky-Watcher Esprit 80 ED fitted with a field flattener using an ASI 533MM Pro c...

The 6 hours of data were debayered, calibrated, corrected, stacked and part processed in PixInsight. The data were further processed in GraX...

Asteroid 8 Flora in the Leo Triplet: A montage of the transit of NGC3628 (the Hamburger galaxy) by asteroid 8 Flora over the nights I was a...

The Whirlpool Galaxy, M51 (NGC 5194), is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus. It lies 31 mill...

M81 and M82. 10 hours 5 minute subs processed in Pixinsight. M82 5.75 hours 30 second subs using Seestar S50 in EQ mode. Processed in Pixins...

Equipment used Moon located in the co-aligned finder/guide-scope Moon positioned in the imaging ED 80mm refractor Full details and all of th...