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Borrowing LAS Equipment 3

Dear LASers, I am attaching the procedure to be adopted when borrowing the Society's equipment. Don't forget it is there to be borrowed. Gerry

By Gerry Leake ·

IMPORTANT: New Procedure for Non-Astro "Chat" 5 #Chat

Had a minor brain-wave this morning. To solve the problem of folks being inundated with Non-Astro emails, PLEASE can you now include:- #Chat in the subject line of any message which isn't Astronomical

Had a minor brain-wave this morning. To solve the problem of folks being inundated with Non-Astro emails, PLEASE can you now include:- #Chat in the subject line of any message which isn't Astronomically related. Anyone wishing to still receive individual emails form the group, but who wants to filter out any #Chat messages, can do so by going to:- https://groups.io/g/AstroLeeds/hashtags & clicking on the "Mute" button in the relevant "Chat" box. (First time users of the web interface though will have to log-in / create a password first) Hope this is acceptable to folks who have a predilection for one side of the Chat/Non-Chat side of things. Cheers, Ivor

By Ivor Trueman ·

Excellent free Moon book - histroy of Moon maps 2

Saw this in the latest BAA Lunar Section circular. https://moon.fmanasek.com/Book.pdf A most excellent production, profusely illustrated, and free! Covers observations, map drawing, & map printing met

By Ray Emery ·

Young Moon

Just seen the Moon as a very thin crescent. Must be about the youngest Moon I have ever seen from this country, at least without aid. - Ray -

By Ray Emery ·

JWST Directors Discretionary Early Release Program

Hi all, Here is a link to details about the science JWST will be doing in its first six months of operation following commissioning. I’m looking forward to the first images on 14/07/2022. https://www.

By Neil Thompson ·

IAU Astronomy Outreach Newsletter #2 June 2022

Forwarding the latest IAU Astronomy Outreach Newsletter. Steve Strickland stevestrickland2408@... 07795 095202 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach <public@..

By Steve Strickland ·

[Infofassocs] Invitation to Walsall Astronomical Society Meeting Thursday 30th June

Hi, If anyone is at a loose end tomorrow (Thursday) Walsall AS are doing a hybrid meeting so you can tune in via Zoom. Steve Strickland stevestrickland2408@... 07795 095202 ---------- Forwarded messag

By Steve Strickland ·

New camera: first light 9

I just got a new camera, ASI2600MM, the mono version of my other camera, and some Antlia LRGBSHO filters. First light testing was last week, 3x10mins on each [SII], H-alpha and [OIII] (the main sulphu

By James Clark ·

OSC images from past few weeks 6

I just realised I hadn't posted the images from my ASI2600MC from the past few weeks I tried plantary but, as confirmed at last week's informal, I need to wait until higher in the sky. Good practice a

By James Clark ·

The Months informal talks 13

I have now finished uploading this month's informal talks to the club YouTube site. They can be found here: John's talk on Solar photography Ray's talk on Red Dwarfs Rod's talk on Registax processing

By Steve Strickland ·

NGC3938 - from last night... (+ Draco Triplet) 10

A quick process of NGC3938 spiral galaxy from last night. 43 x 3 mins... usual gear & no insecurity lights! I'd originally planned to image the globular clusters M53 & NGC5053, but couldn't locate the

By Ivor Trueman ·

noctilucent cloud season 12

2;30 this morning - old man's wakeup time - glanced out the window and best noctilucent clouds I've seen - quite spectacular

By Steve Kirk ·

Red dwarf CMEs 4

After Ray's talk last night, had a skim through a couple of books and websites but the processes going on within red dwarves that lead to massive and unpredictable CMEs in such class M stars appear to

By Andrew West ·

Solar scope 3

Hi folks. I don't know if anyone's interested but I'll be bringing in the 60mm Ha. solar scope in tonight, if any member wants to borrow it. (You must have been a member for a year.) It will need a 2A

By ROD LEVENE ·

Planetary conjunction

This should still be nicely visible on Sunday morning, which happens to be my 70th birthday. Very nice of the sky to oblige! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61910977 Whether I can haul

By Ray Emery ·

AR3038

Following on from what I presented last night, here in the first image is the current sunspot AR3038 as it was on Monday (upper) and Wednesday (lower). The second image is this morning. It is good to

By John Arnold ·

Tomorrow eve. 4

Hi folks. We'll make space for another question time at the end of the informal, so do come armed with all those questions you've always wanted the answer to. It might also be just something you want

By ROD LEVENE ·

Sunspot AR3038 7

I have used my ZWO ASI178 mono camera for the sun today. Here is the busy sunspot group AR3038, using a 6" Maksutov, Baader photographic-grade solar film as the aperture filter, and a Baader solar con

By John Arnold ·

biology cum astronomy 6 #Chat

A message from a friend in Birmingham: Teaching my student cellular organ at the moment and looking at DNA packaging. Did you know each cell in your body has 2m of coiled DNA and a low estimate of cel

By Waldemar Falcone ·

M51 query 4

Heard about yesterdays APOD of M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy over on the SGL. Quite an impressive Hubble image:- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220613.html Clicking on the image to get a higher resolution view

By Ivor Trueman ·