Telescope 1
Skywatcher Sky Hawk 1145P GoTo (Approx £160)
Telescope 2
Meade ETX-70AT (Approx £150)
A friendly local society for everyone interested in astronomy and space exploration, in Cumbria and beyond.
This year our traditional social evening is on Wednesday 17th December. We'll meet in The Swan Inn on Kirkgate in Cockermouth at 8pm for a couple of drinks and an informal chat. See you there.
Chris.
At this month's meeting we'll be having a demonstration of image processing using planetary images. If you want to follow along 'live' them you can bring along a Windows laptop on Tuesday night.
This month our meeting will focus on astroimaging. After the usual update on astronomy news, Dennis will show us how to do some basic image processing. This promises to be a hands on session, those that want to are encouraged to bring along a laptop and Dennis will have some example images we can all work with.
The meeting is on Tuesday 25th November at 7.30pm in St Joseph's Church Hall, Cockermouth.
Remember there is no CAS meeting this month as we have a short summer break. Our next meeting will be at he end of September.
There is plenty of astronomy going on in Kendal during September as Eddington Astronomical Society are holding a Stargazing Kendal festival. Details are on the EAS website.
Any CAS members who are available to help out with any of these events will be welcomed by our friends in Kendal.
Our July meeting will be held on Tuesday 29th at our usual place and time.
We will have the usual round up of space and astronomy news then we'll look at the scale of the universe in a different way by looking at the range of densities of the stuff that it's made of.
If you have any images you would like to share please bring them along with you.
See you on Tuesday.
Our next meeting is on Tuesday 25th February, 7.30pm at St Joseph's Church Hall Cockermouth. The topic this month will be "Star Clusters" with an introduction to what they are, how they formed and how to observe them whatever your level of experience.
If you have taken any images of star clusters you would like to share at the meeting please bring them along.
Chris.
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Image Credit : UCL/University of London Observatory/Steve Fossey/Ben Cooke/Guy Pollack/Matthew Wilde/Thomas Wright |
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Solar telescope |
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Waiting for the clouds to clear |
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A first glimpse of the moon through cloud |
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Telescopes set up and ready for action |
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The moon through one of the telescopes |
We've been cloud watching for an hour now. We can just see the moon through thin cloud. Nothing much else but being optimists we are setting up a 'scope.
The weather is poor at the moment for our first stargazing event tonight. We will still be in Memorial Gardens from 7pm to see how it goes. There is some optimism in the forecast that we may at least see some breaks in the cloud.
Check back here, or our Facebook and Twitter accounts for updates.
If you wondering how best to see the Northern Lights, look no further than Stuart's excellent Cumbria Sky blog for an observing guide for beginners.
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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy as you won't see it through a small telescope! |
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Jupiter imaged recently by CAS member Dennis Kelly |