Andy Sawers
Andy Sawers
@andy-sawers
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RE: Monday night, Jupiter and Venus

Excellent advice about the Twitter and Facebook pages, Sumitra. I'm on FB and I have two Twitter accounts*, one of which is purely for following astro...

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RE: Venus - Jupiter - crescent moon on Saturday

And that's why your pictures are so good - you plan ahead! I set the alarm the night before and then poke an eye out from under the duvet to see if th...

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RE: Monday night, Jupiter and Venus

Here's the results of this morning's 5am viewing. The wide shot is mine to give a bit of context and the zoom shot is my daughter Katie's. The zoom on...

8 years ago
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RE: A different kind of astronomy timelapse - Fixed stars

Sumatra, that video is inspired! The static stars/moving Earth idea is brilliant. I've sometimes wondered if it was possible to do such a thing and ba...

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RE: Forum Improvements

I hate to say anything because I invariably wind up jinxing everything, but I think the site has been much better behaved today - ie, loading much mor...

8 years ago
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RE: Forum Improvements

I’ve pushed the memory limit as far as I dare. Let me know if you are still experiencing issues.

8 years ago
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RE: Solar Observing at the ROG

Protecting a solar telescope from the rain It has to be Britain.

8 years ago
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RE: Perseids Meteor Watch in Cudham

Great fun, Tej! It says around 7.2 for where I often go in Scotland which seems maybe a little ambitious, but I'm working from memory, not hard calc...

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RE: Perseids Meteor Watch in Cudham

I was going to challenge your +4 for London, thinking back to when I was looking at the sky over Canary Wharf from ROG. I think +2 would have been a c...

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RE: Perseids Meteor Watch in Cudham

Tej, I've quickly learned about the Flamsteed 'curse of new kit'. (Whenever there's a Blackheath viewing or some such and the weather turns foul, the ...

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RE: Perseids Meteor Watch in Cudham

New kit alert! New kit alert!

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