Gairloch Mountain Observatory
Amateur Astronomy as Related to the Gairloch Mountain Observatory
28/08/2020
My Grandson Colton's first evening in the Observatory. Where we looked at Jupiter, Saturn and of course the favorite Mr. Moon.
Maybe a budding Astronomer?
17/07/2020
Managed some shots of Comet NEOWISE this evening. Great viewing nice long tail. If you have not seen it yet get out and have a look before its gone.
26/04/2020
Venus just over the trees in the west.
11/11/2019
Managed to Photograph the Transit of Mercury today. There was a few breaks in the clouds between 12 and 1 pm. Just enough to grab a few shots.
Transit of Mercury today!
09/08/2019
ISS Sun Transit frames that shows the path across the sun in one picture
Iss transiting the sun on Aug 2 2019 this a slow motion video of the transit
Captured the ISS transiting the Sun today at 4 51:04 the transit lasted for 1.2 seconds
A little tech data:
Name: ISS
Launched: 20 Nov 1998
Dimensions: 109 m x 73 m x 27.5 m
Brightness: -2.0 mag (at 1000 km, 50% illuminated)
-4.7 mag (at perigee, full illumination)
Mean magnitude from visual observations
RCS: 402m2 (Radar cross section)
USSPACECOM Nr: 25544 Internat. Designator: 1998-067A
Orbit: 410 x 418.5 km, 92.9min Inclination: 51.6°
23/01/2018
🎬 360VR video 8K: https://www.youtube.com/c/Mars360?sub_confirmation=1
Time-lapse Milky-way
This a time-lapse of the Milky-way looking West on Tuesday Nov. 14 spanning about one hour.You can see a couple of planes fly through as well as a meteor.
17/11/2017
Star Trails
This is a series of 120 30 second exposure photos stacked to show earth's rotation. I took these Tuesday evening Nov 14. The pictures were stacked using Gimp.
13/11/2017
Some Lunar Pics from Nov. 13 2017
13/11/2017
Venus and Jupiter Conjunction this Morning
03/11/2017
Show of hands, how many have experienced this feeling?
Keep looking up! :)
(Image via memegenerator.net)
28/10/2017
International Observe The Moon to night.
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/observe_the_moon_night/
https://m.facebook.com/observethemoon/
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21/09/2017
Solar Eclipse 2017 Mosaic
21/09/2017
Solar Eclipse 2017 Totality: Gimp was used to align my six best pictures of Totality. They were aligned by hand, transparencies,and curves were adjusted to bring out detail contrast.
19/09/2017
I took this on June 10 2017 at 330 am. This is a picture of a Moon-bow. It was taken in South Haven looking towards St Ann's Bay with the Moon behind me with my cell phone and I stacked two of best pictures and adjusted the curves to bring out some detail.
17/09/2017
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