It’s been a while since we did an event at Sheffield General Cemetery. Saturday 1st February was unfortunately clouded out, so we had a variety of talks and some stellar musical interludes provided by SUSHI in the Samuel Worth Chapel.

We ran two sessions and all our visitors left happy in spite of the weather letting us down for observations.

Another event is being run on Sunday 16th February. Tickets can be purchased here.

Despite some heavy cloud we managed to get some Sungazing in at The Sportsman on Redmires Road.

Happy New Year!

Here are the links from the excellent January 2023 Speakers Evening talk “Jellyfish Galaxies” by Dr Callum Bellhouse.

Zooniverse project: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/cbellhouse/fishing-for-jellyfish-galaxies

Blog: https://jellyfishgalaxies.wordpress.com/

We are changing how we run observing evenings as both inclement weather and having enough committee members around to host these events is challenging.

Observing events will now operate on an ad-hoc basis and details will be discussed on the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/sheffieldastro

These could be quite short-notice dependant upon weather conditions and availability of people to host.

We had a clear night!

After a healthy helping of the excellent food and drink in the Sportsman Inn on Redmires Road, we ventured outside to set up.

An early ISS pass really kicked off the evening, with a 12″ Dobsonian being used for visual observations, and a 9.5″ SCT, small refractor and a DSLR camera being used for imaging.

We spent a great deal of time looking at the M42 Orion Nebula through the Dob using a Narrow-Band Pass filter to get some additional contrast. The just-past-full Moon rose around 20:15 which bleached out most of the faint fuzzies, however once the NPB filter was replaced with a polariser, we had some cracking view of the moon which, like Norway, has some lovely crinkly edges along the terminator.

In the meantine, our imagers were taking in M42 and M82 which is one of the two galaxies that make up Bode’s Nebula.

Image Credit: Madeleine Davis

We were invited to bring some of our telescopes along to the Stargazing in the Cemetery event held on the evening of Saturday 12th March 2022 at Sheffield General Cemetery.

In spite of the patchy clouds, everybody had a good time, watching a number of presentations and taking pictures of the moon through the eyepiece of the Mighty Howitzer. Looking forward to more events at this venue!

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