Pembrokeshire Astronomer

Up at 5.45am ...just missed the Sunrise.   Captured a few shots of our mist shrouded village. -----------   Last night we slept i...

This morning whilst waiting for the sunrise I spotted Venus shining brightly over towards the Haverfordwest area...  it looked amazing. ...

  Today I managed a quick solar projected image... After a bit of processing using iPhoto software I was able to obtain this fina...

  Tonight the skies were beautifully clear. I decided to give the 40mm refractor a bit of an airing. The crescent moon looked amazin...

  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 ...