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This section is for submissions by members, i.e. observations, photo's etc. Members should email the Webmaster via the address on the EAS Contacts page to post such items here. Photo's should preferably be in JPG format.

From Roy Bicknell These images were taken using a 250mm reflector, f21, with a ToUcam Pro webcam at 1/33 second per frame. The number of useable frames varied and were stacked to produce some great images.



From Harry Ford Harry took these last month when David Godfrey was awarded lifetime membership after some 40 years of being a member, nearly all of this time has been spent on the committee.

From Emma Hayter Emma took these two photo's of the Moon using a Sony Cybershot DSC-P12 5 mega-pixel digital camera, hand-held at the 9mm eyepiece of a Meade ETX 70AT telescope. The camera was set on automatic and for the close-up shot the zoom was set at 6.1. The close-up is of Tycho and Clavius at 9 days lunation on 16th July 2005, and the full shot was at 6 days lunation on 12th August 2005. This just goes to show what can be achieved with the camera hand held, well done Emma! - BW.

From Brian Walker Brian took these photo's of the partial eclipse of the Sun on 3rd October 2005 at his home in Eastbourne. "Here are two photos I took at home of the eclipse. I actually took 50 and then made them into a short movie, which I sent off to Meridian TV. They put it on their early evening news that day. I used a digital camera mounted afocally onto an eyepiece and attached to my Celestron C8 SCT telescope which had a solar filter at the front. The pictures were taken at 3 minute intervals."

From Emma Hayter Emma sent in these photo's of the partial eclipse of the Sun on 3rd October 2005 at the Public Viewing Session, Western Lawns, Eastbourne. "Here are a couple of photos I took at today's EAS public viewing event, I especially liked the improvisation here with an ordinary household object!"

From David Godfrey These photo's were taken by David of the partial eclipse of the Sun on 3rd October 2005 at the Public Viewing Session, Western Lawns, Eastbourne. "We certainly were lucky with the weather! We had a good turnout of both members and about 90 pupils from St Bedes on the Western Lawns. There were 4 telescopes including Peter Gill's Coronado MaxScope 90 through which I took a few photos."


From Nat Barnardiston The photo's below were taken by Nat of the Transit of Venus whilst on holiday in Crete

Maybe it’s a reflection on modern life, but we all seem to be trying ‘to kill two birds with one stone’. My first ‘bird’ was an annual break in sunny Crete and my second to view the 2004 Transit of Venus from a guaranteed clear sky site. Airport security was less impressed. Eyes lit up as the usual toothbrush and disposable camera were replaced on the x-ray screen by the circular counter-weights of a telescope mounting. The barrel of the 4” refractor inside its padded hockey stick bag was escorted to a special hold unit; post 9/11 metal tubes are naturally unwelcome in passenger facilities. Fortunately sufficient officials were convinced of my bona fide status and indeed showed interest in the forthcoming astronomical event. I had originally planned to link the 4” Sky-Watcher (Meade optics) refractor with a SLR camera, but lack of connectors and insufficient expertise caused this to be abandoned, hence the angled image. Even though Crete was 2 hours behind the UK a sea mist still prevented an observation of first contact, but soon after the blue Mediterranean sky returned allowing the assembled throng of tourists, hotel staff and myself to watch Aphrodite’s progress across the face of Helios. Nat Barnardiston.

From Brenda Cormick

I thought members might enjoy this online space show. It's a pretty interesting 'trip' from deep space
all the way back to Earth. I found it quite inspiring. Good for cloudy nights.

Online space show. Mainly a taster slide show for a longer one - at a cost