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South West Herts Astronomical Society
An image of Comet Hartley taken with the 10" Newtonian
(The comet is the 'fuzzy patch' just to right of centre)
The Pacman nebula NGC281
imaged in Rickmansworth by Iain Melville
To visit Iain's website for more images - click here
Click on either image to see a larger version
Recent updates
Open Evening at HighTop Solar event
On Saturday 25th June members and residents of Flaundon met at the High Top observatory for a SOLAR VIEWING event.
Although the weather that week had been mixed, we were lucky to have a dry, if windy, evening with intermittent cloud cover and many clear periods. Using members telescopes and a Coronado PST Solarscope - kindly loaned for the occasion by WOLAS (West of London Astronomical Society) we managed to log five sunspots and three prominence's (the latter with the Coronado with its hydrogen-alpha (Ha) filter).
Thanks are due to Jane for an excellent buffet, Eric Ramsey and Don for the images.
Some new images by Stephen Crook - click here
Observing at the School - see members' home page
Links to websites for Astrometry talk - click here
More photos from Pat Walker
Mars rotation animation produced by Martin Lewis from WOLAS
Direct link to local weather forecasts - follow link in menu bar
Click here to see a fine sequence of images of the total eclipse - taken by Don Doherty
International
Mars Watch Group
If you are interested in Mars and its near approach to Earth click here for an interesting site.
Society presents Telescope
to the School
click here for story
Tenth "Planet" found!
click here for the full story in 'Spaceflight Now '
or here from 'The Planetary Society'
The annual visit of the Perseids
click here to see the story in 'Sky & Telescope '
The latest from the
Cassini mission to Saturn
follow this link
Transit of Venus
Details can be seen in the Events page and in the Members Area
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