Pembrokeshire Astronomer

  I've been waiting for weeks to have a decent view of Saturn.. Last night I was rewarded with a fair view of the ringed planet. ...

 First Light for the Tal2, what better target than tonight's lovely gibbous Moon. The Tal2 is noticeably showing more detail ...

Tonight's eight day old Moon, captured (afocal) with my Tal1 Newtonian. In folklore this month's Moon is sometimes called th...

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...