Monthly Archives: December 2011

Blog Wednesday 28th December 2011   Big Andrew Robertson in Norfolk had given me the heads up during a telephone conversation earlier in the day that it was going to be a clear one. The sky cleared in the afternoon … Continue reading →

Blog Friday Night/Sat morning 23rd/ 24th December 2011   If you read this blog regularly you will be quire aware that chasing the Hickson compact galaxy groups (HCG’s) has become quite a preoccupation with me, if not something of a … Continue reading →

Blog Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th  December 2011   Lunar observing and sketching is something that I’m guilty of neglecting for a few months now, mean while my 2 sketching friends Frank McCabe & Chuck Hastorf across the pond in … Continue reading →

Blog Saturday 10th December 2011   Es Reid Cambridge optical designer and engineer is a frequent visitor to our home and my observatories. Without Es’s technical expertise much of the work done at the observatories would happen, things would be … Continue reading →

Blog Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th of December 2011   With my eye firmly fixed on the Hickson Compact Galaxy Group project I was getting to bed at a reasonable hr to take advantage of the early morning Moon free … Continue reading →

Blog Saturday December 5th 2011   I had arranged with some good friends, husband and wife, Rob & Helen White, both Vets and keen naturalists to come over to visit the observatory and hopefully take a look at Jupiter. As … Continue reading →

Blog Friday December 2nd 2011   With the Moon now starting to interfere with evening Deep sky observing and the forecast saying the east would clear out after midnight and turn frosty I set my alarm for 5am, this would … Continue reading →

Blog Tuesday 29th November 2011   A rather good clear night gives me another opportunity to pick off a few more of the Hickson compact galaxy groups. Although I actually started the evening with another challenge this on set for … Continue reading →

Blog Saturday November 26th   Stewart Moore the section Director of the Deep Sky section of the BAA and Owen Brazell Galaxy Section Director of the Webb Society and also Stewart’s Deputy at the BAA had come up with the … Continue reading →