90 mins on the North American Nebula last night. SeeStar 50

Managed 6mins of 10sec exposures on the SeeStar 50 last night in EQ mode targeting the Pelican Nebula. Amazing what this wee scope can do.

The Pelican Nebula in Cygnus Taken tonight with a SeeStar 50. Just 60 mins of 10sec exposures.

Interstellar comet 3i/ ATLAS taken from my back garden this morning through. Its age is estimated at 7 - 11 billion years so billions of years older than the Solar System. Currently it is about 170 million mile away from us. Worth getting up at 5.30 to see! The SeeStar 50 captured this after 6 min

A quick shot of M13 and Comet Lemmon last night. Taken next to a brightly lit roundabout on the A7!

iPhone image of comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 30sec exposure with iPhone on tripod. Amazing little camera imaging an amazing spectacle. Location: Newtongrange, Midlothian.

Checking out the ‘House of Binns’ for future Astronomy events with colleagues from the ASE last night. Patchy cloud but we set up numerous scopes and I took the Society’s 10” Dob. Good views of Comet Lemmon, Saturn and the Double Cluster. Facilities were good and access fine. Good fun as always.

Another shot of Comet Lemmon form Callander this time. SeeStar50 with iPhone processing. 8mins to get this image. Amazing little machine

Comet Lemmon taken during a 10min window between twilight and cloud cover last night Grrr. Image off the iPhone with a bit of Apple processing. Location Newtongrange, Midlothian.

Following the Supermoon get together at Meadow park Edinburgh last Tuesday, I took the outreach Dob into the garden on Wednesday night. A couple of attempts holding the iPhone to the eyepiece gave these results.

Took the family to see the Greenwich meridian location in Cleethorpes but they have identified wrong place. The true meridian is a further 5” east of the place shown so I drew a line with a stone! I guess this was done pre GPS.

A stroll along the Dirleton Solar walk yesterday. The QR coded info and images add to the story. dirleton.solar

Alberio, taken last night from the back garden with hand held iPhone. However it was looking through the eyepiece of a 10" Dobsonian! The Orange star is actually a number of stars very close together the biggest of which is a red super giant. It is 4383°. The hotter blue star is 13200°.

Nice detail on the moon showing tonight near the terminator. Alpine ridge looks great. Hand held iPhone photo through the eyepiece of 10” Dobsonian telescope

Despite all the scepticism in the scientific community I can confirm Worm Holes are real. Here is the proof

We are hoping to live stream the partial eclipse tomorrow using the 6” Cooke on Calton hill, Edinburgh. Starting at 10.00 am www.youtube.com/live/SR6F8KY...

Double cluster in Perseus taken with the SeeStar. Lots of nice coloured stars in the two clusters which are around 7400 light years away.

Caught a glimpse of Mercury this evening below and left of Venus. iPhone pics

A weak aurora last night but detectable

Processed my SeeStar image of M42.

A good look at the moon last night and a great time to see the craters along the shadow’s edge (the terminator). A pair of binoculars if you don’t have a telescope shows l lot of extra detail. I held an iPhone to the eyepiece and grabbed a couple of images.

The’Moon and Sheep’. Good name for a pub 😉.

Hoping for a little clear patch of sky tomorrow event see the moon at its best. About 50% illuminated. Perfect for X and Y 😉

There were 28 people from the estate came to look through the telescope tonight including a large number of children. They saw Venus, Jupiter and Mars and all said they enjoyed the experience. Must repeat when the moon is in the right place and the sky is clear.

Plan for Visit to Rosewell scouts next week for their Space badge includes: Construction of a full size model of Sputnik1 ( one I built 7 yrs ago) and using sheets and marbles to make gravity wells. Advanced stuff for badges these days!

Gather a few adults and children from the estate to look at the planets and some constellations tonight. They all enjoyed seeing these through telescope for the first time.

Last night Mars shot

@tribelaw.bsky.social Ghanks for the posts. I am interested it getting a perspective on US politics from the ground not the media. US or UK.

It is due to be clear and very cold tonight. Sounds like the telescope will be out keeping me company looking at the celestial delights of the winter sky. Mars, Jupiter and Orion on the menu.

A moody sun today but at least it tried to light up Scotland a little bit.

We visited the National Glass Centres Studio in Sunderland and came across this. It was made by Ray Stanness as one of a series of Celestial Globes. It reminded me of Io so I took the plunge and opened my wallet.

Great to see so many at Portobello on Thursday evening. Please we had a few scopes to cope with the demand. Well behaved and interested children and so many ways to Wow! Always fun to see and hear the reaction when observing the moon for the first time.

Last night before the winds came I managed to take some video of Mars and Jupiter. Processed these this morning. The ice cap is visible on Mars and Jupiter’s cloud bands look good. 10” Dobsonian, ZWO ASI224 camera and lucky imaging software.

This is the ‘computer’ I used in the late 60’s. The Otis King was a cylindrical slide rule. You had to work out the order of magnitude to get the decimal point sorted but otherwise a quick and easy way of multiplying and dividing. The grandchildren wanted to know were the batteries went🫣

Managing to let the local residents look at the planets through the ASE 10” dob. Lots of ohos’s and Ahhh’s. The moon has been very popular too.

Had a great outreach event at Dirlton with the primary school children and their parents following their complied the Solar system walk project. A cold crisp night provided good conditions for the 10” Dobsonian telescope to show them Mars, Jupiters cloud bands and moons, Saturn and the Moon.