NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please click here for solar observing safely. CMHASD Solar Observing at Hall Place & Gardens – Sunday 5th May 2024 & Sunday 7th July 2024 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Come and join us on Sunday 5th May and Sunday 7th July when members of the Society will be at Hall […]
NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please click here for solar observing safely. The solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, also known as the Great North American Eclipse, was a total solar eclipse visible across a band covering parts of North America, from Mexico to Canada and crossing the contiguous United States. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the Sun. A total solar eclipse occurs […]
NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please click here for solar observing safely. Two stunning Solar Halo images taken by member Honor Wheeler on the 14th April 2024 from Winchester. Honor captured the Solar Halo’s using a Canon M6II fitted with a Samyang 8mm fisheye lens, ISO100, 1/2500’s & 1/3200’s. For more information about Solar Halo’s and how […]
NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please click here for solar observing safely. A super image of the Sun taken on 24th March 2024 by member Honor Wheeler. Honor captured the white light image of the Sun using an ED80 Refractor fitted with a solar filter, EQ3-pro Synscan mount, 2x Barlow, Canon M6 II. Exp1/6400s and ISO400. Below […]
Three fantastic Full Moon images taken by CMHASD member Honor Wheeler on the 24th March 2024 from North Kent. This is the first Full Moon of the spring season and appeared on the night of Sunday 24th March and Monday 25th March reaching its peak illumination in the early hours of Monday 25th March 2024. […]
Another fantastic image of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks captured on the 27th March 2024 by Jim Burchell using his Seestar S50 smart scope. The image consists of 24 x 10 second images stacked. For more information about the comet 12P Pons-Brooks check out https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/12ppons-brooks-how-and-when-see-devil-comet
A super image of Bode’s Galaxy & the Cigar Galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major taken by member Jim Burchell on Wednesday 27th March 2024. Jim captured the image using a Seestar S50 smart telescope and stacking 60 x 10 second images. Bode’s Galaxy is towards the top of the image and the Cigar […]
One more for the Exoclock project. This time the transit of exoplanet Qatar-9b measured by Simon Dawes and Martin Crow on the same night. Qatar-9 b is a hot Jupiter exoplanet in Ursa Major that orbits a K-type star. Its mass is 1.19 Jupiters, it takes 1.5 days to complete one orbit of its star […]
NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECTLY. Please click here for solar observing safely. A super image of the Sun taken by member Jim Burchell. The image is showing an extremely large Sunspot group AR3615 in the middle of the Sun. Jim took the single image using a Pentax KP camera attached to a 102 mm Altair refactor […]
A super selection of Moon images taken by member Neil Webster in March 2024. 22nd March 2024 A Waxing Gibbous Moon, 94.7% illuminated and 12.47days old. 7 frames each 90s x 32fps. Best 20% aligned and stacked in Autostakkert. Processed in PhotoShop. Neil captured the Moon using an AA115 triplet APO, EQ6 R, ZWO 290MM […]