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 I try to log my observing and related activities in a regular blog - sometimes there will be a delay but I usually catch up. An index of all my blogs is on the main menu at the top of the page with daily, weekly or monthly views. My Twitter feed is below. I am also interested in photograping wildlife when I can and there is a menu option above to look at some of my images. I try to keep the news feeds from relevant astronomical sources up to date and you will need to scroll down to find these.

The Celestron 14 is mounted on a Paramount ME that I have been using for about 10 years now - you can see that it is mounted on a tripod so is a portable set up. I still manage to transport it on my own and set it all up even though I have just turned 70! It will run for hours centering galaxies in the 12 minute field even when tripod mounted.

 

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Day 116 Wednesday 16th July 2014 Misleading SN imposters and ESA image

DateWednesday, July 16, 2014 at 11:09AM

Looking further at some of the galaxies imaged on last night another interesting one is NGC 6762

The appearance of this galaxy might imply the presence of a supernova but that is not the case.

 

There are some interesting videos from the European Southern Observatory. Here is one.

 

Details from ESO:

"Published on 14 Jul 2014

This richly detailed new pan video from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the star formation region Gum 15. This little-known object is located in the constellation of Vela (The Sails), some 3000 light-years from Earth. The glowing cloud is a stunning example of an HII region. It also has a similarity to a more famous HII region, the Trifid Nebula (Messier 20)."

 

For more information go to http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1420b/

 

 

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