Pembrokeshire Astronomer

The sky was clear and cold, the stars were shining, and my eyes were adapting to the darkness. Armed with my trusty 8x30's I de...

Yesterday evening near sunset, a bank of heavy black cloud lay to the North, but the North West through to the South was fairly clear.......

Not much to report for the last couple of weeks. The night skies haven't been too bad, but the evenings have been really cold.  We ...

I was pleasantly surprised that the media didn't whip up a doomsday prophecy about the recent fly by of asteroid 2012 DA14  -   or &qu...

Last night there was an Io transit, between 20h 48m UT - 22h 48m UT. Perfect timing, as the skies were cloud free. With help ...

Early yesterday evening the clouds filled the skies, I thought there was to be no observing .....  thankfully I was wrong. At around...

I felt the cold last night in the observatory ...especially in my feet... Even though the observatory floor is made of wood, I coul...