Blackheath Observing Our scheduled observing session on the 19th coincided with a spell of clear skies that offered good seeing and a...

Herschel’s Garnet Star Weather forecasting skills are almost as important as knowledge of the night sky when trying to practise astronomy...

Setting up the telescopes on Blackheath Well, you’ve got to love astronomy in the UK… don’t you?!… don’t you?!?!?!? A very frustrating...

Under the Plough Our first observing session of 2014 and our first for many weeks, due to weather, proved to be an enormous success. The...

Attendees trying to view Jupiter, Venus and Mercury after Sunset Torrential rain for most of Friday 24 May put paid to any plans that we...

The crowd gathers on Blackheath (Pic by Mike Dryland) Grey makes final adjustments to the 90mm Coronado (Pic by Mike Dryland) Around 140...