There was a beautiful waxing crescent Moon last night, which set not long after the Sun (For those who enjoy a bit of trivia: a waxing Moon...

It's not often these days that Linda and I add a new bird to our life-lists (you know - the ones we don't keep any more!) With today...

As mentioned yesterday, the International Space Station passed over Jupiter and Saturn last night: the sky was so clear here in East Norfolk...

Tonight the ISS begins a sequence of passes across the UK: below is a timetable with dates, times and brightness (The lower the magnitude, t...

At the moment our 'twin' planet Venus is in the news because of the recently discovered hydrocarbons in its atmosphere that may just...

Terrible cliche, I know, but that's the way things have gone since my first blog entry! You may remember I found an anomalous metallic o...

This large frog spent some of the late afternoon underneath a bench on our patio: a most welcome visitor. He then sidled of into the new cir...

I'm lucky enough to have numerous dealer-friends in the Astronomy world: one of them has been kind enough to offer me a fantastic deal o...

Some time ago, when big astronomy shows were still happening, Linda and I bought an adapter for our Optolyth spotting 'scope. We never g...

When Brian and I get together it's always an early start: we like to get ahead of the crowds. In these post apocalyptic days (!) there s...

I spent some time yesterday afternoon rigging up a counterbalance on my 4.5" refractor and attaching a DSLR with a 3x Barlow lens in an...