Perseids Data
By Trevor Clifton Given the sharp rise and fall the timings would suggest that the Earth travelled some 315,000 miles while in the debris stream from the comet.It will be […]
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Meteor detection activity on the increase
By Trevor Clifton Meteor detection activity on the increase as member Graham Wall is photographed working on his 6 element Yagi
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Spaceguard Centre Visit 6th June 2018
By Doug Bickley A slightly belated report on this trip!! We had talked about a summer visit for some time, and on Wednesday 6th June an intrepid band set off
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Meteor Observations in Radio 20th June 2018
By Trevor Clifton I recently changed my analysis software and the results and comments are below. The night of the 20th was just an ordinary night with no meteor shower
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M51 Mystery Object
By Trevor Clifton During the evening of Saturday 14th April while commissioning a 150mm refractor some images were taken of M51. After processing the LRGB images and comparing the final
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Bobbington Observation Session 8th May 2018
By Richard Harvey The first weekend of May gave us the best run of clear skies for months, so we arranged an observation session for Tuesday 8th May at our
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Bobbington Observation Session Friday 20th April 2018
By Richard Harvey With our Tuesday Trysull observing sessions clouded out for much of the winter, we’ve tried to find an alternative observation site that’s available on other nights of
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Observation Session 13th March 2018
By Richard Harvey After what seemed like years of cloudy skies, we were finally able to hold another society observing session at Trysull on the 13th March. Despite a slight
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Farewell to David Towers
Last week we had to say goodbye to one of our long term members, David Towers, who is moving away from the area. David has been a dedicated member of
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Quadrantids 6th Jan 2018
By Trevor Clifton Equipment 3 element Yagi, Horizontally polarised, orientated due south Funcube donglepro plus Location Telford, Shropshire