11-Mar-09 : Tom Moran's Astro Images

Society member Tom Moran sent in a selection of his excellent astronomical images to show what a talented amateur can do, even from a heavily light-polluted area like the North East of England.

Comet Lulin, February 2009	The Great Orion Nebula, 2009	Saturn, 2009

If you have any pictures that you would like to see featured here then drop me a line via the newsgroup or the contact page and we'll see what we can do to publish them. The best format for publication is JPEG or PNG format, 72dpi resolution and no more than 600 pixels wide by 400 pixels wide. We can always link to bigger images and, where appropriate, to alternative sites such as Flickr.

03-Mar-09 : Comet Lulin / Venus

Venus is currently at its brightest, a beautiful thin crecent, sliding into the west just after sunset. It's difficult to miss. On the other hand, Comet Lulin begins to slowly fade as it returns from whence it came, into the dark and fathomless depths of the outer solar system. Will we see it again? Will it be as disappointing next time around? I don't think any of us will be around to find out?

Pictures by Simon Murray.

27-Jan-09 : Star Party Movie

A collection of images from the star party on 19th January 2009.

Astronomical images by Simon Murray. All others by David Hughes.

01-Dec-08 : Occulation of Venus by the Moon

You may have noticed Jupiter & Venus in the west shortly after sunset. If you have been observing these over the last few weeks you can see the separation between the two is rapidly decreasing.

On the 1st December they are only separated by a few degrees. However we will have the added bonus of the occultation of Venus by a thin crescent moon!

This will be the view on the 1st December 3:41 pm with the moon only 10 degrees above the southern horizon:-

Schedule

3:44pm : Sunset

3:45pm : Moon starts to cover Venus

5:13pm : Venus will start to re-appear