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The Cerne Abbas Star Party 2025 Tickets, Fri 17 Oct 2025 at 12:00 | Eventbrite Eventbrite - Kevin Quinn presents The Cerne Abbas Star Party 2025 - Friday, 17 October 2025 | Monday, 20 October 2025 at Cerne Abbas Brewery, Cerne Abbas, England. Find event and ticket information.

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Date: Fri 17 Oct, 12:00

Location: Cerne Abbas Brewery

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Top evening at the Cerne Abbas brewery then saw this on the way home #moon

14.5mm Founder Optics Alien Eyepiece Whilst perusing the First Light Optics stand at the recent South West Astro Fair, held in the Norman Lockyer Observatory, I spotted the above in the 'for free' section. I say 'for free', but donations to the Scopes4SEN organisation were encouraged. Having previously been impressed by the quality of the optics of this brand of eyepiece, I figured this one would be worth a tenner (which was all the cash I had on me).

14.5mm Founder Optics Alien Eyepiece

Whilst perusing the First Light Optics stand at the recent South West Astro Fair, held in the Norman Lockyer Observatory, I spotted the above in the 'for free' section. I say 'for free', but donations to the Scopes4SEN organisation were encouraged. Having…

Phone snaps through a 10k Lunt solar scope, at SW Astro Fair at the Norman Lockyer observatory...

Cool, my website of random astro-blathering has passed 5000 views - theastroguy.wordpress.com 🔭🎉🙂👍🏼

Is this the perfect Astro-red light head torch?

I’ve owned a couple of red light head torches over the years, and all the while I’ve been on the lookout for a more suitable one. M y first, a ‘Cyba-lite’ did the job for a while, but it’s three modes, starting with bright white, then red then…

The Cerne Abbas Star Party 2025 got a mention in The Society for Popular Astronomy's magazine 👍🏼

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Date: Fri 17 Oct, 12:00

Location: Cerne Abbas Brewery

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It was shorts and t-shirt weather in Cerne Abbas last night 😯🔭🌃 #pixel7a

Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter" - Petitions We want the government to take the decisive five steps set out in the Movers and Shakers' "Parky Charter" and to fulfil the Health Secretary’s promises.

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Lluvia y turbulencias en el Sol: impresionantes nuevas imágenes con un detalle sin precedentes Utilizando los equipos de observación correctos, el Sol es un objeto celeste majestuoso. Un nuevo sistema de óptica adaptativa capaz de contrarrestar los

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First and last shots from last night 🙂🔭

Today I'm at Swedish Day car meeting in yeovil looking for potential authors ...

Collimation anxiety … am I (finally) cured?

I’ve written posts before on the subject of collimation (here and here), and I know that I said I was happy with my work, turns out I wasn’t. Not really happy, not entirely confident that it was as good as it should and / or could be. From conversations…

For a little more context ... The diameter of London's orbital motorway, the M25, is just 64-80km ... and the population of Greater London is around 9 million ...

A wider view, with more context. The image was taken with a pixel 7A phone held to the eyepiece on a 10 inch Newtonian telescope, hence it being 'flipped'

A wider view, with more context. The image was taken with a pixel 7A phone held to the eyepiece on a 10 inch Newtonian telescope, hence it being 'flipped'

The large crater just coming into view at the top (actually near the south pole of the Moon) is known as Schickard, and is 212km in diameter, and 1.5km deep.

Check out Gassendi crater, on the edge of Mare Humorum (the sea of moisture ...). Gassendi is 100km in diameter, while Gassendi A which bisects the rim is 32km wide ... 🔭🌔

The much larger crater, with two craters within it, is Clavius. With a diameter of 225km, it's one of the largest lunar craters on the near side 🔭🌔

That very prominent crater right in the terminator is Copernicus... 93km in diameter, and around 4km deep 🔭🌔

Well, hello.... 🔭🌔

Following up on last night's self imposed lunar challenge, to identify craters Aldrin, Collins and Armstrong. I managed them, just. visually at x200 magnification, but only got the latter with my phone (the very small dot upper left).

The moon has gone behind some trees, so I've missed my chance to see if I could make out the three craters 😕 #ohwell

Messier A measures around 11km in diameter, and you can clearly see the ejecta streaks leading away from it. Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin range from 2.5 to 4.6km across, so will be tough to spot ...

According to my book 'A month on the Moon', {cough} a good way to find the three small craters comemorating Apollo 11 astronauts Aldrin, Collins and Armstrong is to look just below and to the right of the two small craters indicated, Ritter and Sabine ... If you wanted to have a look #justsaying

Beltane greetings from Cerne Abbas 👍🏼

Large sunspot region coming into view today ☀️🔭

Globular cluster M13, shot using a pixel 7a last night at Astrocamp ... The faint smudge to the right is, I think, galaxy NGC 6207, 63 million light years away!

Yeah, it’s incredible. The combination of the Pixel’s astrophotography mode, with the phone mounted on a small refractor and a tracking mount is amazing. Still learning how best to do it, but yeah … amazing 🙂

Globular cluster M3, photographed yesterday evening, before it was even dark, using a pixel 7a and a small refractor. 🔭✨