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 I try to log my observing and related activities in a regular blog - sometimes there will be a delay but I usually catch up. An index of all my blogs is on the main menu at the top of the page with daily, weekly or monthly views. My Twitter feed is below. I am also interested in photograping wildlife when I can and there is a menu option above to look at some of my images. I try to keep the news feeds from relevant astronomical sources up to date and you will need to scroll down to find these.

The Celestron 14 is mounted on a Paramount ME that I have been using for about 10 years now - you can see that it is mounted on a tripod so is a portable set up. I still manage to transport it on my own and set it all up even though I have just turned 70! It will run for hours centering galaxies in the 12 minute field even when tripod mounted.

 

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Nov122014

Philae Landing Day - Landing time

DateWednesday, November 12, 2014 at 7:35AM

Quite an exciting day for the European Space Agency with the Philae lander due to go down to the surface of Comet 67P. The predicted landing time is 16:02 U.T. so in the UK that will be 4.02 p.m. G.M.T. which is currently local time there and here in Spain it will be 17:02 local time. Yesterday's issue of the Amateur Night Sky Daily concentrated on the mission to 67P so if you click on Archive at the top of today's issue and select the 11th November 2014 you will be able to read it. There is more in today's issue.

 

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