Category Archives: Observing

Jan
02
2011

Partial Solar Eclipse 4th January 2011

There will be a partial solar eclipse on the morning of 4th January 2011 UK time.
Warning: DO NOT view the Sun without suitable visual protection!
Information from NASA about the eclipse here and a link to an animation here
I’ll be watching the solar eclipse using the safest method; using my home made pin hole eclipse viewer [...]

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Dec
04
2008

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 [...]

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Oct
23
2008

Moon Occultation of Neptune or Grazing?

A few weeks ago the topic of “the Moons possible Occultation of Neptune - 6th November 2008″ came up at my local Astronomical Society meeting.  It was thought that Neptune may be Occulted or may Graze what we see as the edge of the moon.
I decided to see what Stellarium though about this and my finding are that Stellarium predicts that it will [...]

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