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The Observations section has been reworked. Latest Observations will now only cover the last 5 days or so. For other observations, click on the Observations Menu.

I'm not making any specific guarantees about how long the observation history will go back for. The space on the server is limited, so if I add other sections to the site or I get a month with a lot of photos, I will need to trim this to make space.
 

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Nov 5th

This was the first action in Prague. I'd been there since Sunday 1st and been totally clouded out day and evening. I saw a waning gibbous Moon. Tycho's rays were dominating the moonscape but the Appennines were almost drowned out by the light but Plato showed well. Grimaldi was further from the limb than normal, thanks to libration.

Oct 30th

The sunspot group appeared right on the edge as seen through my binoculars under poor, cloudy conditions.



The final action of the month was another Moon shoot, starting with the full disc.



To the bottom right is the much elongated Schiller, although the whole region is rich in craters.



Now would a gibbous Moon shoot look complete without Tycho? No Way!!!



But then there's Plato and the Appennines at the north.



Copernicus, Kepler and the rather interesting multi-feature below Kepler looked rather intriguing.


Oct 29th

At first, it was clouded out so I was unable to check for sunspots but it cleared enough in the afternoon to record the sunspot group, altohugh not enough to snap the Sun with my PST.


Oct 28th

If anything conditions for solar viewing were even worse than the previous days but I still managed to see the sunspots, which were near to rotating off.



As often happens, it cleared up later in the day but I was too busy with work to snap the Sun! It had got a bit worse when I took some snaps of the Moon, starting with the full disc, which I was quite pleased with.



I then did a close-up of Plato and Sinus Iridum.



Next up was Copernicus.



Clavius and a few well-known neighbours came out quite well.



The final shot was Plato amongst the Alps.



Oct 27th

It was a cloudy start but it finally cleared around lunchtime to reveal sunspot rotation.



I was hoping to do a lunar photo shoot in the evening but all I was able to get was the conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter with just the camera at 18:30 GMT.






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