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Post by Pembrokeshire Astronomer on Jun 21, 2018 8:26:54 GMT
Typical...! I moan about the Pembrokeshire weather..and now I'm moaning about the weather on a completely different planet..  The poor old Martian surface is once again obscured! Lets hope the storms calm down before the opposition next month. I would like to draw a few sketches before the red planet fades.  Here's my last attempt, from June 4th.  |
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Post by nighthawk on Jun 21, 2018 17:53:02 GMT
Typical sandy  Last night the moon was visible but covered with hazy cloud. I still remember taking a pic of the moon for every day of the lunation. It took me over a year and of course lost ALL my slides later. |
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Post by Pembrokeshire Astronomer on Jun 21, 2018 21:54:15 GMT
Typical sandy Last night the moon was visible but covered with hazy cloud.
I still remember taking a pic of the moon for every day of the lunation. It took me over a year and of course lost ALL my slides later.Poor old Opportunity rover must be full of sand by now... built to last....like a Tal1 telescope
Would have liked to have seen those lunar slides Jim..
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Post by nighthawk on Jun 21, 2018 23:17:56 GMT
So many things lost Mark but I found one of my OLD log books, even got a 'Sketch' of mars in it from 1986. What surprised me when skimming through it was the ridiculous observing times I used to do. 4am as have to be at work for 5am. Strangely though it looks like some of the log is missing either that or I had another book which I can't find. Much of the observing was done with 7 x 50 binoculars or a 3" refractor belonging to the Ewell Astronomical Society of which I was a member back then. |
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Post by JR the Moon on Jun 24, 2018 15:30:41 GMT
I have literally hundreds and hundreds of images of Patrick's (Moore's) I transferred to dvd whilst on holiday at Farthings
Spent hours scanning in his old books
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Last night the moon was visible but covered with hazy cloud.
