July 2012 Video

My video of my astronomical photos from July 2012 are now available. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR0hdjdFV58&feature=youtu.be

July 30th Observations

I finished the month of July and my last post in  Latest Observations .

Today is clouded out with no hope of observations, so all new observations will be posted here.

Yesterday's Sun showed new sunspot activity, even though conditions were somewhat cloudy.

July 29th Observations

July 29th observations now out.

This is the full disc lunar shot.

July 28th observations

These are now complete: http://philippugh.comlu.com/Latest_Observations.html

This is the full disc shot of the Moon and there's also lots of Sun pictures.

July 27th Observations

Latest Observations are now complete up to July 27th: http://philippugh.comlu.com/Latest_Observations.html

The awesome solar filaments taken in hydrogen alpha light were amazing. On one had I was pleased to see them but on the other hand I wished I'd had a bigger hydrogen alpha telescope.

Latest News

It is wet today, so I'm catching up on web-related issues and processing my photos.

There's a major announcement regarding my website

The Sun has been awesome the last few days and here's the full disc shot from 27th (Friday) in hydrogen alpha light.

Observations from July 24th now uploaded: http://philippugh.comlu.com/Latest_Observations.html.

The featured picture is of the Sun in hydrogen alpha light showing a plage.

July 24th Hydrogen alpha light solar pictures uploaded to Photobucket:

http://s197.photobucket.com/albums/aa205/PhillipPugh/?start=all

Welcome

Welcome to my new blog. I am a telecommunications trainer by day and solar observer during breaks and observe the wonders of the night. I use affordable techniques to take snaps of the Sun, Moon, planets and anything else I can get on my limited equipment. This photo was taken on March 7th this year, using a 127mm Maksutov and cheap digital camera.

I will soon start posting regular observations here from August, as I finish my old blog: http://philippugh.comlu.com/Latest_Observations.html

I have a new promoted video and will update this every few days: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w10sNA_yn3M