Skip to content

Refreshing Views

  • Refreshing Views
  • Useful Articles & Publications
  • Diary
  • About & Equipment
  • Journal ~ Blog

Menu

  • Refreshing Views
  • Useful Articles & Publications
  • Diary
  • About & Equipment
  • Journal ~ Blog

Jupiter – Saturn Conjunction December 2020

2020 has been a pretty strange year but the stars and planets carry on regardless including December’s Jupiter and Saturn conjunction – an event I had in my diary for […]

Posted on 14 January 20216 April 2021 by Mark
Posted in Observing Report, PlanetTagged Saturn, sketch

3 Hours on Mars: 8 October 2020

Another clear night. I have got my planetary imaging workflow down to a tee now. Once the roof has rolled back and the telescope aligned, I can have Mars in […]

Posted on 18 October 202018 October 2020 by Mark
Posted in Observing Report, Planet

Clear Skies Over Tharsis

Wednesday 14 October 2020 With the skies clearing after work, it was time to head to the observatory to catch Mars – now a few days past opposition. After rolling […]

Posted on 18 October 202018 October 2020 by Mark
Posted in Observing Report, Planet

5 Volcanoes Visible from My Garden – on another planet

Here is a derotated image from 13 September of Mars under quite exceptional centred between Solis Lacus and Tharsis.  Arsia Mons seen as a bright region, I assume as the […]

Posted on 14 September 202012 April 2021 by Mark
Posted in Observing Report, Planet

The Curious Incident of the Cloud in the Nighttime

I staggered to the observatory with mug of tea in hand after the horrors of an 0300 alarm clock. Thank goodness for summer leave. The clear forecast, unfortunately, had been […]

Posted on 10 September 202012 April 2021 by Mark
Posted in Observing Report, PlanetTagged adc, Autostakkert, C11, cloud, firecapture, Mars, registax

Venus through the C11

9 April 2020 Week 3 of the Cov-19 lock down. Luckily it has coincided with a period of clear albeit, somewhat hazy, skies.  With no need to commute, I can […]

Posted on 10 April 202010 April 2020 by Mark
Posted in Observing Report, Planet, UncategorizedTagged adc, ASI224, C11, celestron, firecapture, Venus, ZWO

Starting a Binocular Variable Star Programme

In June, I chatted to an old friend, Bob Dryden at the BAA’s summer meeting at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL).  I first met Bob when I started in astronomy, […]

Posted on 31 December 201912 April 2021 by Mark
Posted in Variable Stars

Observing the Far Side of The Moon

The moon’s captured rotation around the Earth prevents us from observing the rear-facing hemisphere. No matter how many times I have observed the moon, I can only ever see slightly […]

Posted on 17 November 201912 April 2021 by Mark
Posted in Lunar, Uncategorized

Clear skies – Thursday 7 November 2019

The sky cleared late afternoon but, after days of rain, the air tasted of damp as the air temperature dropped after sunset. Once home from work, I set up my […]

Posted on 10 November 201912 April 2021 by Mark
Posted in Lunar, Observing Report

19 October 2019: Waning Moon before the RWC Semis

19 October 2019: 20 Day Waning Moon A beautiful morning and, having to get up early to watch England v Australia, I couldn’t resist heading to the observatory to image […]

Posted on 31 October 201912 April 2021 by Mark
Posted in Lunar, Observing Report

Posts navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Recent Posts

  • Observing Andromeda’s Globular
  • Homemade Parallelogram Mount
  • Lunar Volcanoes – 25 March 2021
  • 23 March 2021: Waxing Moon
  • Observing the Plato Craterlets: 22 March 2021

Archives

  • October 2021
  • August 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • January 2021
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • April 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • February 2019
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • January 2018
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • June 2017
  • April 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • September 2016
  • June 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015

Categories

  • Deep Sky
  • Equipment
  • Lunar
  • Observing Report
  • Planet
  • Solar
  • Uncategorised
  • Uncategorized
  • Update
  • Variable Stars

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
Copyright © 2015 Mark Radice