Pembrokeshire Astronomer

  It's now obvious that Mars is moving away from us. The red planets gibbous phase is now plain to see. Due to the present size of M...

June 4th 2014  - 21h 30m UT  - Schmidt C8 Celestron x220 - A:III Outside observing tonight at 10h 20m BST. Still not quiet dark, plen...

This evening I traveled down to Newgale.  Though I had to wait about half an hour for the clouds to clear off. In that time I had the car ...

The sky last night was beautifully clear.  So I decided to roll back the observatory roof and give Tal2 a bit of an airing. Firstly Arct...

Tonight the Moon  was calling me, a big bright gibbous Moon, sitting above the treeline, along with Mars.... they were irresistible!  Pl...

Would I see Mercury tonight? Helen and I made our way to Newgale, we arrived at about 10.00p.m. After about five minutes of searching...