We've had to cancel tonight's session as well, unfortunately. Forecast looks dreadful. We will try to reschedule to a later date.
How you get such a rich starfield from Blackheath is always amazing. Thanks Tej... but not on this occasion. These images are from my trip down to Ro...
Definitely not running the Blackheath observing event this evening (Friday). We will try tomorrow, though it looks doubtful to be honest. Go/no-go de...
I particularly like the diffraction patterns around the brighter stars. Thanks Clive. This is an optical effect of using the 50mm lens, which has an...
Certainly was a good evening. I went down to Romney and got a few images... didn't stay late enough to see the comet though. All taken with a Canon 6...
science fiction writer Stephen Baxter whose specialisation is starship design, apparently Hmmmm... is there much call for this line of work? Asking f...
Friday it is. Go/no-go decision at 4pm tomorrow evening.
It's possible that one of the battery cells is failing, or is depleting faster than the others. Difficult to know... but all batteries degrade over ti...
I seem to have a problem with my Kendrick controller not drawing power from the Tracer after a couple hours elapsed time This could be because of vo...
I think we can be certain that we will target Friday instead of Saturday... but we wouldn't make the final "go/no-go" decision until the day of the ev...
I agree... if it's going to be any day, it'll be Friday. Not holding out too much hope though... the forecast still looks poor! If we have to cancel ...
Based on some of the images that I've seen published today, the comet doesn't look very bright at all (mag 5 or 6 maybe? - difficult to tell). Defini...
Any luck seeing Catalina, Tej?
Unfortunately it has been picked up and spoofed by Aldi who advertise a telescope cheaper. Both companies conning customers??!! You're right, Brian....