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Feb 6
5 min

The World’s Biggest Telescope

Oct 15, 2004
2 min

A Llyn Brenig October

This was a reasonable session with intermittent misty clouds, the NELM down to 6 and a bit. A welcome outing!

Dec 31, 2002
2 min

Paul Clark Observing in Ripon 28/12/2002

First off, some ‘easy’ globular clusters in M31.

Nov 15, 2002
2 min

Paul Clark Observation 15/11/2002

Desperation had set in. A hint of a few hours on Tuesday was enough to brave the conditions.

Sep 1, 2002
1 min

1/9/02 Observation in Gradbach

Richard and myself had a productive few hours at Gradbach on Sunday night. I started off early and spent the time digging through DSOs in Cygnus. Richard arrived a little later. He soon set up his new coffee grinder. The LX90 worked very effectively throughout the session. 8 inches was lots of aperture under the darker sky and object location very precise. I observed some bright and interesting planetaries near Deneb, NGCs 7026, 7027 and 7048.An HII region Sh2-112 was easily

Jan 31, 2002
1 min

Supernova Discovery 31/1/2002

A supernova has been discovered in M74, announced on IAU Circular 7810 today.

Sep 16, 2000
2 min

The IAU in UMIST, Manchester, UK, August, 2000

Thursday, 17th August, the IAU celebrity lecture at UMIST was again hosted by Patrick Moore and featured Prof.

Oct 8, 1999
7 min

A Supernova Discoverer's Diary 24th Feb 1987

Observed in the evening. Suspected a super nova in the large magellanic cloud near 30 Doradus!

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