I’d hope to watch the eclipse from an outdoor balcony looking west over London, but the balcony hadn’t been unlocked. Instead we set up in an air-conditioned lecture theatre with a nice picture window facing west. There were several students already in the room and they were interested to observer the eclispe, and had been …
Category Archives: Astronomy
Comet
I finally spotted the comet (C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)) As seen from south Minneapolis.
Not the December Solstice
That’s tomorrow at 03:27 am.
A better account of a comet
Another clear night saw me trying to capture the comet again. This time with a longer lens. The comet is getting higher in the sky, and today is the closest approach to Earth (so it might be a bit brighter). Still no progress on getting my telescope mount back from the repair place, so I’m …
“An imperfect account of a comet…”
to quote Caroline Herschel. There’s a buzz in the media over the rare green comet that’s whizzing past us right now. It’s fuelled in part by the colour (almost certainly not visible to the eye (especially from light polluted regions)), and in part by spectacular images from big telescopes. I like comets, and try to …