EAA, or Electronically Assisted Astronomy is an ever increasing popular way to do Astronomy. While it uses as camera to make observations, it’s not astrophotography and because you are not looking through an eyepiece, you don’t need to be at the telescope to do it. Nick will give an overall view on what EAA is and how you can simply and relatively cheaply use your existing go-to telescope- no matter what kind it is…
Sun & Stars: 20, April – Carnewas
The first of this years Sun & Stars events held on 20th, April. These events , are always, is dependant on clear skies, but this evening we got lucky. Lots of visitors were able to observe spot activity on the surface of the Sun and then watch Jupiter set as more and more of its Moons appeared as darkness fell. Thanks as always, thanks to the National Trust for allowing us to use their…
Twinkle, Twinkle GINORMOUS Star
Looking up at a Chinese night sky Confucius poetically said: “Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines.” Scientifically, we now know that the stars are actually giant balls of hydrogen converting to helium in a nuclear fusion process and kicking out huge amounts of heat, light, plasma, particles and radiation in the process. But is our Sun a “normal” size and “type” of star and how does it compare…