West Wight Backyard Astronomy
Saturday, 29 March 2025
Partial Solar Eclipse 29th March 2025
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS 19th October 2024
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was not well placed for me on the date. This was taken just before it disappeared behind the next door house, hence the dark shadow bottom left.
Equipment:
Scope: Sky-Watcher 80ED PRO
Camera: QHY 268C
Mount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker, processed with Affinity Photo 2
Friday, 16 August 2024
Aurora and Perseid Meteors 12/13 August 2024
Another Aurora event visible (to a camera) at lower latitudes.
Equipment:
Pentax K-S2
16mm Samyang lens
Manfrotto tripod
Capture details:
F3.5
ISO1600
10sec
Aurora
Perseids
Monday, 12 August 2024
Aurora (at last) and bonus Perseid meteor
Having missed the spectacular event in May, I've had fingers cross for another. Finally last night some success, although not as spectacular as May it was still pleasing to get some images and this one also captures a Perseid meteor. Two for the price of one!
Equipment:
Pentax K-S2
16mm Samyang lens
Manfrotto tripod
This image was captured at 01:27 12th August 2024
Capture details:
F3.5
ISO1600
10sec
Thursday, 6 June 2024
AR3664 - The region that caused Aurora around the world (but I missed it!)
Sun spot region AR3664 can be seen right of middle. This image was taken on 9th May, a couple of days before the Aurora was seen around the world.
White light (Left)
Scope: Sky-Watcher 80ED PRO
Camera: QHY 268C
Ha (Right)
Scope: Coronado PST
Camera: Altair GP-CAM3 178M
Wednesday, 1 May 2024
The start of a new season of Solar imaging
Here are a few recent images of the Sun captured in White light and Ha
White light (Left)
Scope: Sky-Watcher 80ED PRO
Camera: QHY 268C
Ha (Right)
Scope: Coronado PST
Camera: Altair GP-CAM3 178M
April 7th
April 18th