Pete Presland

WOW, it looks amazing!

Leylandii's are just too big for nearly every garden. The conifers that have been trimmed near me were planted 30 years ago and are at least 40 feet high. The wildlife seems to love them, but in recent years my local RSPB has removed most of the coniferous tress from their reserve. The reason that they do not support anywhere near as much wildlife as the native deciduous trees support. That said they make a fantastic hedge/wind break when kept at a reasonable height.

It certainly is a pain!

Lovely set of images, that is a good size Prom.

Too windy for early morning Planetary imaging for sure, fine for a Comet hunt though. 😀

The Planetary imaging window at the bottom of the garden just got bigger this afternoon. I could hear a chain saw buzzing away and after a very friendly chat, he removed a lot of branches that were blocking the view. I think i will now be able to see Jupiter and Saturn at 45 minutes earlier, probably before they start to loose altitude. Not too much to get excited about i know, but anything is better than nothing. 😀 I will have a quick look tomorrow morning hopefully, before i try and see Comet Neowise.

Me too, camera and Binoculars at the ready!

Fantastic set of images, love those Proms. The Granulation is also superb!

Cracking Proms!

Loving the descriptions, not many gaps in the clouds at the moment.

Very nice

Excellent tutorial, thank you for your time and effort Nigella.

Lovely set of images.

I saw that, absolutely superb. It shows the effect of the Solar minimum cycle very well, with the new cycle features being nearer the poles. Slowly activity increasing in the center region, then fading away as we approached the current minimum. This just about coincides with my entire time doing Solar imaging. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the "heads up" what a great opportunity to be involved in some science. Fascinating reading on this link as well http://pvol2.ehu.eus/bc/Venus/

I have been using this one for quite a while https://virtual-moon-atlas.en.uptodown.com/windows

Looks very interesting, its been a while since we saw a bright comet.

That would be very annoying, especially considering how high Mars will be this time around.

A fine looking image, some lovely detail visible along the terminator.

An excellent report, good to hear your observing experiences. Looking forward Mars growing in size in the coming months!

Hi welcome to SGL from Peter in Bedfordshire 🙂

Very nicely captured.

That is a good looking Prom!

Cracking image!

Sounds like an excellent session, looking forward to the cold dark winter nights already!