Pete Presland

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂

My oldest item is this book, nor sure where I got it from though. It comes complete with rather naive childish scribbles on the star charts. I guess I probably early teens circa 1980.

I had that as well, it got donated to a local astronomy society only a couple of years ago!

Very nicely captured, I think the ADC is certainty a help downn at the current altitude.

Nicely captured.

A fine image, a decent level of activity especially for the aperture.

Nice capture, there have been odd reports of cycle 25 spots for quite a while. I guess the previous cycle will keep going for a while, slowly being replaced by the new cycle. We have got a while to wait for the return of some Decent level of activity.

Very nicely detailed disc's.

I think i have still got a copy of it, somewhere on the bookshelf. My old Tasco 4.5" reflector, was passed on to a work colleague a few years back. I can vividly remember purchasing through my mothers Littlewoods club book.

Lovely ripple effects!

I have never experienced this effect, but its fascinating to read about it!

Lovely display and very well captured.

Superb single frame capture!

Lovely sharp Lunar capture with your new camera.

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂

I definitely saw them that night as well, also the early hours of this morning as well.

Not a fan myself, but that's only because I like being freezing cold at night and tired the next morning 😀 On a personal level being outside looking up at the stars is a huge part of astronomy for me, probably why a stopped imaging DSO's, I just felt I was looking down more than up! 🤩 Seriously though, do what you enjoy! As DP said as long you are honest about what you are presenting I don't see why anyone would have a problem. Damien peach's planetary images of late are a collaboration with the http://www.chilescope.com/ team. You will find many of his planetary images in their gallery. There is also a "remote (robotic) capture" category in the Insight astrophotographer of the year competition as well.

Noctilucent cloud visible last night from Bedfordshire. Not the most extensive display i have seen, but certainly the earliest by nearly a month. Clearly visible in the northern part of the sky. I struggled to make out any of the usual "rippled" clouds this time from my bed room window, but i would guess if i had stayed later it would have become more prominent.

Looks pretty poor unfortunately, at least we are not missing any long dark winter nights or any decent Solar activity. Feels like this summer isn't going to be anything like last year, early days I guess........

I made one out of an old RDF a couple of months back

It might just about be visible from my current "Planetary spot" down the garden. 12 degrees is very low though!

I saw my 1st ones at around 3am, got up ridiculously early to photograph them before work. I remember feeling very jaded at work later, but still buzzing from the thrill of seeing them!

Beautiful Michael, the highlight of the summer months!

It might be worth mentioning it in one of the Solar imaging/Observing sections as well.

Hi Steve, my B600 is green like the left hand image. The serial number is 2014295. Hope this helps.