Our Observatory is CLOSED tonightLast night’s viewing was good with five participants.
The Alan Young telescope bagged another Messier object (M39 – NGC7092) an open cluster (unfortunately image is slightly out of focus).
Also imaged various regions in Cygnus. Two images below:-
Gienah (epsilon Cygni) - Alan Young telescope 21/10/2011
Albireo (beta Cygni) - Alan Young telescope 21/10/2011
Last night at the Observatory, we had our usual (if clear skies) Friday evening observing session.
Good viewing conditions enabled us to capture FOUR Messier objects with the AY ‘scope:
Also some nice views of the 17day old Moon.
Here are a selection of images taken:
Jupiter 10th October 2011
Here a two images taken by the Alan Young Telescope last night, at our regular Friday open-house Observatory session.
M13 Star Cluster in Hercules imaged by the Alan Young Telescope on 07/10/2011
10-day old Moon imaged by the Alan Young Telescope on 07/10/2011, showing principal craters along terminator: Tycho (top) & Copernicus (bottom).
Enjoyable observing session tonight. We looked at star clusters, the Andromeda galaxy and double star Albireo, through the small telescopes.
And the Alan Young telescope captured a lovely image of comet Garradd…
Comet Garradd captured 30/09/2011 with Alan Young telescope
M37 image taken with the Alan Young telescope on 31 Jan 2011.
This is an image of the Great Orion nebula (M42), taken with the Alan Young telescope on 14th Jan 2011.