Friday, March 13, 2026

Dr Mary Bruck's interest in the Penllergare Observatory

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In view of the upcoming lecture by Stuart Hemsley-Rice on the historic Equatorial observatory at Penllergare Valley Woods, I reproduce here ...

Fast imaging

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Is Fast Imaging a Solution to Limited Clear Skies? Over the past couple of years, the recent run of poor weather here in West Wales has led ...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

The Veil nebulae and Pickering's Triangle

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The Veil nebulae and Pickering's Triangle with AstroDMx Capture for Linux, an Altair Starwave ASCENT 60ED doublet refractor with field-f...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Nebulosity detail in the Seagull nebula

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The Seagull nebula in the Hubble palette. Data captured with AstroDMx Capture with a 60mm ED doublet refractor and Altair HaO3-S2O3 duo-band...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Peru and the Pacific. Live and Zoom talk by Chris Bowden

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Chris Bowden gave a fascinating talk about his and Wendy's recent expedition to Peru and the Pacific visiting Easter Island, Pitcairn Is...

97.5 % waning Moon

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The best 50% of frames in a 5 minute RAW AVI captured with a Seestar S50. Debayered and stacked in Autostakkert!4, wavelet processed in wave...

NGC2264

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Using an Altair Starwave ASCENT 60ED doublet refractor with field-flattener, a Pegasus FocusCube v2 focuser, an Altair Hypercam 533C 14 bit ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

The Sun in H-alpha light

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A Solarmax II 60 BF15 H-alpha scope fitted with an IR/UV cut filter and an SVBONY SC705C OSC camera was mounted on a Skywatcher Solar Quest ...

99.7 % Moon

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The best 50% of frames in a 5 minute RAW AVI captured with a Seestar S50. Debayered and stacked in Autostakkert!4, wavelet processed in wave...

Caldwell 8 and Caldwell 13

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Click on an image to get a closer view Caldwell 8 ( NGC559) . 90 minutes 20 second subs with Seestar S50 processed in Pixinsight. Caldwell 1...