The Full Moon -24 March 2024 66mm ED Altair Lightwave Refractor and QHY5111462c colour camera. Credit Pip Stakkert. |
Saturated colour version Highlights the differences in albedo and changes in surface mineralogy. Credit: Kurt Thrust |
The Full Moon -24 March 2024 66mm ED Altair Lightwave Refractor and QHY5111462c colour camera. Credit Pip Stakkert. |
Saturated colour version Highlights the differences in albedo and changes in surface mineralogy. Credit: Kurt Thrust |
The asterism Greg 3 found by Greg Parker - COAST Robotic Telescope Mount Teide, Open University telescope .org. |
''Interstellar Glider' fractal art and astro-image collage by Jodrell Plank sponsor - George Roberts. Fractal software INCENDIA. |
With the weather preventing any views of galaxies, nebulae, stars and moons, the staff at the Jodrell Plank had time to consider and discuss the potential for interstellar travel using low mass robotic craft powered by coherent light beams from high energy lasers based here on Earth. One of the Observatory's generous sponsors and senior citizen scientist, George Roberts, made this image of a diaphanous robotic interstellar craft set against the back drop of deep space. - Kurt Thrust current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.
A part of the Sun's Photosphere captured with the 127mm Meade apo refractor and the QHY5111492c planetary camera at F7.5 |
The active Sunspot Group 3599 captured with the same telescope and camera but at F22 |
A copped section (Top left) of Sunspot Group 3599. |
A cropped section (Bottom right) of Sunspot Group 3599. |
Kurt Thrust captured these images from the Jodrell Plank Observatory on 06-03-2024. The upper atmosphere at the time was a bit hazy and consequently the images are a little 'soft' . After all the dreadful weather we have experienced recently, here on the East Coast of England, actually being able to see the Sun was a real treat!
The Sun is our nearest star and the photons of sunlight we captured with our telescope and camera took approximately 9 minutes to travel the 150 million kilometres from the Sun to the Lowestoft - Karl Segin outreach coordinator at the Jodrell Plank Observatory.
The venerable 127mm Meade Apo telescope with white light filters in place for imaging the Sun safely in white light. |
"The southern sky provides a wonderful vista awash with Hydrogen Alpha light. The constellations; Orion, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer and Monoceros can be seen in the above widefield image with their associated clouds of molecular gas and nebulae". Joel Cairo CEO of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.