Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Palomar Observatory Tonight we will have the double act with Jacquie and Dean Ashton. The main talk of the evening will be by Jacquie Ashton – Detecting Exoplanets. The search for exoplanets has escalated since the first one was confirmed in 1995 – 51 Pegasus b. Jacquie will describe the techniques that were developed in the discovery of exoplanets and their characteristics, and how these are being used to find Earth-like planets…
Latest Member Image
The Flaming Star Nebula in Auriga (top left) with the Tadpole Nebula (bottom middle) and Spider and Fly (bottom left). A widefield (5×3 degree) SHO-image. Telescope: Askar FRA600+0.7x reducer, Mount: AM5N, Camera: ASI6200MC, Askar D1+D2 filters: 97x180s D1, 87x180s D2, Processing: PixInsight. Nigel M. Price The Flaming Star Nebula (IC405) in Auriga (Top right of image): IC405 is an emission line and reflection nebula shown here in false colour with Sulphur II shown as…
Do Little Green Men have a pulse?
Image Credit: Martin Burnell, University of Dundee Last month, on the clear April 5th evening at Carnewas, Kernow Astronomers held one of our “Sun and Stars” where anyone can come to view the setting Sun and Moon and planets through telescopes. A perfect discovery evening for young and old! Looking north in the distance was the Trevose Head Lighthouse blasting out its bright white beam every 7.5 seconds. Every April some of the Kernow…
Our Next Meeting: 3rd, April- Trevarrian
Image Credit: NASA -SDO We have a special treat this evening. Tonight we will be visited by Matthew Browning an associate professor in the Astrophysics group at the University of Exeter. This evening he will be presenting a talk entitled ‘How the stars got their spots’ We realise this is at rather short notice and hope you will be able to come. This talk is open, not just to our membership, but anyone who…
Sun and Stars – 5th April: Carnewas
The third of this years Sun & Stars events. The event, as always, is dependant on clear skies, but this evening we hope to be able to see sunspot activity on the surface of the Sun before it sets. As the skies darken, we will be able to observe Jupiter and her moons as it sets followed by Mars and an 8 day old waxing Moon as they pass through the meridian. The event…
March 29th: Partial Solar Eclipse – Tretherras School
The eclipse on March 29, 2025, will be a partial solar eclipse. This type of eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth but the Sun, Moon, and Earth are not perfectly lined up. The Moon will block only part of the Sun, causing the Sun to appear like a crescent. In conjunction with Tretherras School, Newquay, the club and its members will be helping out to allow everyone to safely…