Society Secretary Darren Swindells has produced new images whilst on holiday under the dark Exmoor skies in Devon. Darren isn’t happy with the final quality of his new images, as the weather prevented good alignment of his telescope. Intermittent mist and thick cloud kept obscuring portions of the sky, but in the breaks he managed to capture
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Using a webcam we took some movies of the Sun in white and Hydrogen alpha light which were then processed using Registax. Here are the results showing sunspot groups 1260, 1261 and 1262 (left to right). In the Ha image (right) you can also see some prominences around the limb and near the sunspots.
We had a great afternoon at Bole Hills Bowling Green, showing the Sun to many visitors and passers-by. Using our specialist solar telescopes we saw sunspots and some prominences and they all left with a new appreciation for our nearest star.
M51 with supernova 2011dh. The supernova is the bright star on the edge of the galaxy to the left of the galaxy core. Taken by D. Swindells on 2011-06-12 with a Canon EOS1000D set at 1600ISO on a Skywatcher 200PDS Telescope. 18 stacked images of 2-4 minutes each
