Author Archives: chippin1

  I was caught by surprise by the clear sky! No time for getting to bed early and getting up at midnight so I worked from about 11.30 through to 01.30. SQM read 20.60 at 01.30 so not a bad … Continue reading →

With a run of clear skies in the UK this week I have been pushing myself to catch that couple of hours between midnight and 2am to pick up a few more Arp peculiars, as an aside I went for Hoags … Continue reading →

Blog Thursday May 16th 2013   With the summer solstice fast approaching and darkness getting more and more scarce at 52 deg north it is time to adopt my summer observing program, namely early to bed up around midnight for … Continue reading →

Blog Wed 1st May 2013   Straight in here and back on the trail of the Arp peculiars! My first of two for the evening Arp 248, also known as ‘Wild’s Triplet’ turned out to be a tough group, way … Continue reading →

Blog Tuesday 30th April 2013   I grabbed just one observation last night, I considered comet PanSTARRS as inspired by Andrew Robertson’s dramatic observational drawing from the previous night showing fan like anti tail!  But with it still out of pointing range of … Continue reading →

Blog Monday 29th April 2013   After a busy very garden weekend both at home and on the allotment, Saturday night out under the stars, a flying visit to Aldershot and back on Sunday and finishing the weekend off with … Continue reading →

Blog Saturday 27th April 2013   With my Hickson quest rather stalled by either the remainder being inaccessible from my location/observatory or the ones I require not currently being in the sky I needed some new interesting targets to get … Continue reading →

Blog for Friday 19th and Saturday 20th April 2013   With the Moon now approaching 70% it is dominating the evening sky making Deep Sky observing less practical, not that the Watec video camera won’t deliver under strong moon glow, … Continue reading →

Blog Wednesday 17th April 2013 I enjoyed  making my inpromptu sketch of the cres moon behind cloud so much on Tuesday night, I thought I would have another go, this time a little earlier at 8.30pm (local time) so the sky … Continue reading →

There is something very mysterious and magical about the moon showing through a cloudy night time sky, especially when the clouds are fast moving wind driven ones. I have long wanted to try and capture that magic, I need to … Continue reading →