Pembrokeshire Astronomer

The Plough - Join the dots. I set the telescope up at about 10.30 p.m. and waited for Mars to show its face from behind the trees at t...

Conversations with Selene extracts from my poetry journal ---------------   It is midnight and the culminating Moon looks down a...

Jupiter and the Moon 17/04/16 I was feeling the cold tonight, so I decided to light the fire and grab myself some dandelion coffee.   O...

Tonight a blackbird was perched on Gilbert's roof, singing a song for the Moon. A perfect evening to train the Jason refractor o...

 Last night's Jupiter sketch. I didn't stay outside long last night as it was windy and cold.  There were also clouds loomi...

60mm'f15 Jason refractor - afocal 40mm Kellner eyepiece  This evening's lunar photo, taken with the Jason refractor. Ear...

The Great Red Spot could be seen, it exhibited to my eye, an orange/red hue.  Overall the image was "mushy" at x225. ...