Two images of Jupiter from last night. #CFF160 🔭 with #TeleVue 2.5x PowerMate and #ASI585MC camera. Europa and Io visible in left image from single video (best 10% stacked), and right image is stacked from 12 x 60s videos in WinJupos. #astrophotography

Happy Winter Solstice wishes from the Astronomical Society of Edinburgh #astronomy

Absolutely fascinating talk to @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social on Kuiper Belts around other stars by Tim Pearce of Warwick University, and how you can use images of them to infer existence of exoplanets. Available to watch on YouTube: youtu.be/z0JPizgxe2k #astronomy

How have I only just discovered google maps for space? If you, like me, did not know about this little piece of internet treasure, you must check it out! You can fly over moons and planets - and it's all real data <little happy skips> 🤗 🔭🧪 👉: www.google.co.uk/maps/space/ 👇: Dwarf planet Pluto!

My first go at processing a SeeStar mosaic using Siril and the DSA script. Needed more data than the 84mins used. M31 taken from Newtongrange, Midlothian, Scotland.

The Geminids are already firing and the peak should be tonight (14 Dec), clouds permitting. The Moon is kindly hiding too. These are a few from Friday night. Capturing 200+ in each of our cameras overnight (we have 17 in the Society). 🔭

A brief clearing in the skies last night allowed me to get quick snaps of the Moon and Jupiter. CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #Touptek 585 mono camera for the Moon and #ZWO ASI585 colour for Jupiter. #astrophotography

🔊Big in #Biggar! If you're in the #Lanarkshire area, the Biggar Science Festival's Christmas lecture in the Corn Exchange, will be featuring yours truly. We'll be discussing the 4 questions that I'm most often asked! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔭 ⏰: 11th Dec @ 19:30 🎟️: biggarce.yapsody.com/event/index/...

A fascinating, clear and understandable talk by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell explaining how technological developments (for example CMOS cameras, leading to much shorter exposure times) have led to the realisation that many more objects in the universe than we realised are variable.

Talk by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell at 7.30pm tonight. It will be streamed live on YouTube. #astronomy www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTWJ...

A big shout out to the P7 class of Stockbridge Primary who took these utterly awesome photos last night on their residential visit to the Lagganlia outdoor learning centre in the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Highlands. Lagganlia is part of the Scottish Youth Telescope Network and I'm so proud of these kids! 🥳 🔭 #SYTN

2025’s Geminids will be the best meteor shower of the year With a waning Moon and a denser-than-ever debris trail, 2025’s Geminids might be the year’s best meteor shower, and 2026’s could be amazing. bigthink.com/starts-with-...

Stonking sunspots photobombed by a departing flight this lunch break #Seestar 😎🔭. #AR4294

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wishing Scots all around the world a happy St Andrew's Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Note, you don't need to be Scottish to celebrate! How about a nice bowl of porridge for breakfast or a wee dram of whiskey at the end of your day? 🥃 📷: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social "Saltire on the Moon"

A time-lapse of a typical night observing with our remote telescope in Spain: ASERO. On an average night we observe 6 variable stars, a couple of comets and a chosen deep sky object - all selected by our members. 🔭☄️ Sometimes we do live observing, always fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n5F...

Sh2-173, or the Phantom of the Opera Nebula, imaged with @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social remote 12" Murrell Newtonian 🔭 at #Trevinca in Spain. RGB stars with Ha for the nebula. #astrophotography

Me and my good pal Andrew from @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social gatecrashed a local #supermoon gathering last night with his Dobsonian🔭. Minds were blown as we looked at the lunar mare and craters through patchy holes in the cloud cover. Pop-up sidewalk astronomy at its best - loved it!

A rather misleading headline in the BBC this morning: the UK Space Agency is definitely not being scrapped! #UKSA will change from being an exec agency of, to a unit within, the Dept of Science, Innovation & Tech, reducing UKGov red tape. Thoughts?🧪🔭🛰️ ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We managed to capture the close approach of Venus and Jupiter yesterday morning when they were just 51' apart, using our wide-field telescope in Spain. You can just make out 3 of the Jovian satellites.🔭

Timelapse of a night with the Perseids. 169 captured with this NW facing camera on the edge of Edinburgh last night. globalmeteornetwork.org/weblog//UK/U... 🔭

One of the things we like to do is monitor variable stars. While everyone is waiting for T CrB to go "pop" we watch SU UMa, another dwarf nova that behaves similarly - just far more often and fainter. We caught the latest super-outburst. Our data in blue. 🔭

Supernovae are amazing! One star outshining all the others in a galaxy - sometimes even the whole galaxy. 🔭

One of our meteor cameras on the edge of Edinburgh caught the bright fireball reported by many and in the News last night. So bright it saturated the sensor in the next frame. ☄️🔭

If in Edinburgh and look to the NE you can see a really nice display of Noctilucent Clouds. Mesospheric clouds of ice crystals, possibly formed on cosmic dust, so high up at 80km that they are still in sunlight even though normal, lower clouds have now gone grey. 🔭 Beautiful and ethereal!

Although we may be taking a summer break now, astronomy continues and our remote telescope in Spain, ASERO doesn't stop. This image of LDN863 is one of the latest, processed here by ASE member Pat Devine. 🔭 www.flickr.com/photos/bbgw/...

Our Sky Diary for Scotland (Edinburgh) in July 2025 is out now 🔭 www.astronomyedinburgh.org/2025/06/26/s...

Coming soon to a planet near you 🔭

Not to be missed if you're anywhere near #Edinburgh 🔭 We'll be there.

Such a good project to get schools involved with. Now back for its 6th year. A project we support and definitely approve of. 🔭

The power of combining data with your friends. Makes the Seestar S50 a much more capable device. 🔭

A fun listen. Not to be missed 🔭

If you're going to be in Scotland this October and interested in comets and meteors, we are hosting the joint BAA Comet and Meteor sections meeting on 4 October 2025 in Edinburgh. Open to anyone interested. Tickets still available.🔭 www.astronomyedinburgh.org/event/baa-co...

As astro-dark comes to an end here in Edinburgh until August, we like to encourage our members to keep observing through the summer. There's still lots to be done. For example, you can image the Moon with the Sun still high in the sky. Maybe use a red, Ha or IR filter. This was taken at 15:24 UT 🔭

Sun imaged this morning from Edinburgh in white light (Seestar 🔭) and h-alpha (coronado solar 🔭). #solar #astrophotography

Watch out for this tonight if you get clear skies. 🔭

Our telescope in Spain, ASERO, has been imaging some Peculiar Galaxies. Arp 104 also known as Keenan's System consists of two galaxies joined by a bridge of material spanning around 22,000 light years. It's just so hard to let go sometimes... 😍 Discovered by the amazing William Herschel in 1790 🔭

On 3 May, Mars and the Moon will make a visit to the Beehive, the open cluster M44, also known as Praesepe. They will be within 2° of each other. Could make a nice image if you can get the exposure correct since the Moon will be the brightest by far.🔭

Antennae Galaxies taken using our telescope in Spain. Weather has been pretty bad there recently, better in Edinburgh even 😏🔭

Here is asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson as seen by Lucy’s LORRI camera! It’s a contact binary/bi-lobate asteroid 🎉🎊 Image taken on April 20, 2025 from a range of approximately 1100 km. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... #PlanetSci #SciComm 🧪

What can we expect from tomorrow's flyby of Lucy at asteroid Donaldjohanson (DJ)? I bet that we are going to see a weird object! Why? There are two peculiar things we know: 1️⃣ DJ rotates very slowly (period = 251 h) 2️⃣ DJ has a large light-curve amplitude (~1 mag) 🧵 1/3 #PlanetSci #SciComm

𝗡𝗼, 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝟮-𝟭𝟴𝗯'𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. K2-18b is back in the news, now with a bold claim that biosignature molecules (DMS and/or DMDS) have been 'detected at 3σ'. Most exoplanet astronomers are extremely sceptical about these claims, let's see why (1/n). 🔭🧪🪐 #exoplanet

www.astronomyedinburgh.org/2025/03/27/p... 🔭 Fingers crossed for clears skies 🤞

20 March 09:01 GMT 🔭

Another successful year for this excellent project. 🔭

It was an excellent talk. A very engaged audience with so many questions afterwards. Thanks Ben! 🔭

www.astronomyedinburgh.org/2025/02/23/s... 🔭 Something we provide for our members and the people of Edinburgh & Scotland each month.

While everyone has been taken up with the #PlanetaryParade, our members have been monitoring what's actually been happening on the planets. There've seen new storms and outbreaks on Jupiter, clouds and ice caps on Mars, phases of Venus and Mercury. Here are some of their images. 🔭 #astrophotography

Can't get enough data for your smart scope images? Get some friends to help and see the difference. www.astronomyedinburgh.org/2025/03/01/c... 🔭

People are so enthusiastic and always excited to look through a telescope at the night sky. 🔭

Join us shortly for an interesting historic talk about Chile's first observatory 🔭 youtube.com/live/dTdPqe4...