SpotTheStation

Time: Fri Mar 22 5:32 AM, Visible: 2 min, Max Height: 54 degrees, Appears: WSW, Disappears: SW

SpotTheStation

Time: Wed Mar 20 5:37 AM, Visible: 2 min, Max Height: 43 degrees, Appears: WSW, Disappears: SSW

Another chance to visit

The weather all this week is set to be atrocious, but on Wednesday, I'll open the observatory for the ISSP group anyway. If you didn't get over before, come for a look around at 7pm - 8.30pm. If the sky clears at all, we can do some observing, but otherwise we can just have a look at the facilities.

I can't believe it!

For exactly the hour between 7.30 and 8.30 pm, the sky cleared over Bootham, and the small select group who came along got to see a range of interesting phenomena. The lunar crater Cleomedes, just north of the Mare Crisium, all four Moons of Jupiter, as well as the north and south equatorial belts, the Pleiades star cluster, The Great Orion nebula and many lovely stars. As if by magic, the clouds slid back into place at exactly half past eight, like the safety curtain in a theatre.

This was most unexpected, and all very exciting. see you all at the next meeting I hope...

Oh dear

Thick cloud over York. I don't think it very likely that we'll see anything tonight. I've left this as late as I could in the hope of a break in the weather, but nothing has opened up yet. I'll be there to give a guided tour of the observatory for any of you who come, but I can't promise any comets...