"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge".
Monday 29 August 2022
Saturday 27 August 2022
Thursday 25 August 2022
Thursday 4 August 2022
Ha - August 4th 2022
Yesterday's giant prominence was still showing well this morning.
Though it does look as if the maximum was sometime in the hours of darkness last night.
Still, as proms go, this is a beauty.
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SOLAR WARNING
Never look directly at the Sun with the naked eye or with any optic (unless you have the proper solar filter). Permanent and irreversible eye damage may result.
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Wednesday 3 August 2022
Ha- August 3rd 2022
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Wednesday 20 July 2022
Hydrogen alpha - July 20th 2022.
Currently there is a beautiful prominence on the solar limb.
Earlier this evening I captured a few Ha images with the PST.
The Sun also has filaments, plages and sunspots a plenty at the moment.
All good news for the solar astronomers.
The phone camera I use is good at capturing prominences, but terrible at revealing any surface detail.
Time for a new type of camera I guess... Hmmm... I wonder!
Tuesday 19 July 2022
Old typewriter Mars observation - 14/10/20
Recently found this on my external hard drive.
I've just realised I hadn't put the year of observation in the details.
Mars apparition 2020
I used to often type up my observing sessions on the typewriter. I will have to dig through my journals to find a few more to post on blogger.
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