Monthly Archives: December 2008

Happy New Year!

Just a quick post to wish all my readers a Happy New Year and all the best in your astronomical exploits in the International Year of Astronomy of 2009.
2009 promises to be a great year for astronomy.  I have a number of astronomy projects lined up, some to start and some to complete; AstroImaging, Astronomy GCSE, Home [...]

Moon Venus Occultation

In the UK Monday evening (1st December 2008) at about 17:15 Venus began to appeared from behind the crescent moon and end it’s occultation by The Moon.  Cloud had significantly impaired my view of the start of the occultation and I foolishly gave up on the hope of being able to observe anything worth while.  Driving to a nearby shopping centre [...]