v.218 uploaded:   June  2025
Sharnbrook Observatory

Welcome to my web site!

This version includes many new lunar images and a few images of large sunspot groups. All images were obtained using amateur telescopes.

As ever, I hope my web site encourages you to get out there and enjoy the treasures of our universe at first hand.

Best Wishes,  

Peter Garbett



Galleries...


African Skies     Mars                Venus            Equipment          Comets          Sun



The Aurora          Deep Sky       Moon          Jupiter             Saturn            NLC




Cycles 23, 24 and 25 graphed from my observational data



Microsoft Excel Worksheet



Lunar images


Petavius
01.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD




Langrenus
01.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD





Mare Crisium
01.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD









Cleomedes and Geminus
01.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD









01.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD










Furnerius
01.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD










Janssen
02.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD









Gutenberg
02.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD










Atlas and Hercules
02.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD









Taruntias and southern Mare Crisium
02.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD









02.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Sunrise over Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina
03.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Posidonius
03.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Janssen and Vallis Rheita
03.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Piccolomini, Rupes Altai and Fracastorius
03.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Gutenberg and Messier A and B
03.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD












Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina
04.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD












Aristoteles, Eudoxus and Burg
04.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD












Albategnius and Hipparchus
05.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD












Aristoteles, Eudoxus, Cassini and the Alpine Valley
05.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Hyginus, Ariadaeus and Triesnecker Rilles
05.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD










Stofler, Maurolycus and Faraday
05.04.25  20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD









Cassini, Aristillus, Autolycus and Montes Caucasus
05.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Straight Wall
06.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Archimedes and Hadley Rille
06.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD












Eratosthenes
06.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Maginus and sunrise over Tycho
06.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD










Plato
07.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD













Eratosthenes and the Apennine Mountains
07.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD













Copernicus and Eratosthenes
07.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD












Clavius and Tycho
07.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD












Sinus Iridum
08.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD













Lansberg, wrinkle ridges and the Riphaeus Mountains
08.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD












Tycho
08.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Copernicus and ejecta
08.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD












Bullialdus
08.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Aristarchus
10.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD








Schiller and Schickard
10.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Copernicus with rays
10.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Kepler with rays
10.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD












Tycho and its rays
10.04.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD












Gutenberg
02.05.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD












Janssen and Rheita Valley
02.05.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Atlas and Hercules
02.05.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina
03.05.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Burg and sunrise over Aristoteles and Eudoxus
03.05.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD












Posidonius
03.05.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Gassendi and Mare Humorum
08.05.25  Very rough seeing 20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD







Sunrise over Schiller
08.05.25  Very rough seeing 20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD







Gassendi and Mare Humorum
09.05.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD







J Herschel
09.05.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD












Kepler
09.05.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD






Petavius
30.05.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD










Langrenus
30.05.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD










Gutenberg
31.05.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD










Taruntius
31.05.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Rheita Valley and sunrise over Janssen
31.05.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina
02.06.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD











Heavily cratered southern highlands
02.06.25   20cm Meade LX200 SCT @ F10, UV/IR cut filter, Flea 3 CCD








Aurora of 10.10.24





         




                


Large sunspot groups



AR4100 on its third transit
31.05.25  09:26  20cm Meade LX200, Mylar ND3.8 photographic filter, Baader solar continuum filter, IR/UV cut filter, Flea 3 CCD.










AR4100 on its third transit
31.05.25  09:35  20cm Meade LX200, Mylar ND3.8 photographic filter, Baader solar continuum filter, IR/UV cut filter, Flea 3 CCD.







AR4100 on its third transit
02.06.25  09:18  20cm Meade LX200, Mylar ND3.8 photographic filter, Baader solar continuum filter, IR/UV cut filter, Flea 3 CCD.







AR4100 on its third transit
02.06.25  09:52  20cm Meade LX200, Mylar ND3.8 photographic filter, Baader solar continuum filter, IR/UV cut filter, Flea 3 CCD.









AR4079 with 'light-bridge' between main umbrae
03.05.25  pretty turbulent seeing with goodish moments; 20cm Meade LX200, Mylar ND3.8 photographic filter,
Baader solar continuum filter, IR/UV cut filter, Flea 3 CCD.









12.04.25  Mediocre seeing conditions 20cm Meade LX200, Mylar ND3.8 photographic filter,
Baader solar continuum filter, IR/UV cut filter, Flea 3 CCD.







AR3780
09.08.24  Mediocre seeing conditions 20cm Meade LX200, Mylar ND3.8 photographic filter,
Baader solar continuum filter, IR/UV cut filter, Flea 3 CCD.






AR3644
09.05.24  16:17 UTC  Quite good seeing conditions 20cm Meade LX200, Mylar ND3.8 photographic filter,
Baader solar continuum filter, IR/UV cut filter, Flea 3 CCD.






AR3590
24.02.24  Quite good seeing conditions 20cm Meade LX200, Mylar ND3.8 photographic filter, Baader solar continuum filter, IR/UV cut filter, Flea 3 CCD.




Sequence of images showing development of AR3590 over a three day period:


23.02.24




24.02.24




25.02.24






AR3615
24.03.24  Mediocre seeing conditions 20cm Meade LX200, Mylar ND3.8 photographic filter, Baader solar continuum filter, IR/UV cut filter, Flea 3 CCD.



Other sites of personal interest...


Amateurs                                                                          Commercial

Damian Peach's site                                                                Telescope House

Ian King's site                                                                         Coronado Hydrogen Alpha Filters

Jack Newton's site                                                                  Celestron U.K.

Nik Szymanek's site                                                                Meade

Rob Gendler's site                                                                  Starlight Xpress Ltd

Stefan Seip's site                                                                   True Technology Ltd

Steve Mandel's site                                                                Ian King Imaging

Thierry Legault's site                                                             Modern Astronomy

Brierley Hill Solar


Organisations/resources                                              Software

Astro buy/sell                                                                       Christian Buil's software      

American Meteor Society                                                       Registax for processing webcam images

Big Bear Solar Observatory latest images of the Sun                Firecapture software for Flea 3 etc

British Astronomical Association                                            Satellite predictions                

Cloud forecast for UK                                                           WinJUPOS

Cloudy Nights reviews                                                          Auto Stakkert!

Horace Dall, 1982  (video by Robin Scagell)                           Deep Sky Stacker

U.S. Naval Observatory Clock  UTC                                        GradientXTerminator

Luton Astronomical Society                                                   PHD autoguiding, DSLR shutter control etc                           

Observing Planets around other Stars via Transits!                  Stellarium planetarium software

Periodic error test results for mounts                                    Starry Dave software e.g. solar animations
(Google translator from French)

Prince Albert (South Africa) site                                            Noel Carboni's software

Solar astronomer's library

Solar Influences Data Analysis Center (International sunspot numbers)

SpaceWeather.com for solar activity and far more!

Unisys Jet Stream Forecast to assess likely seeing conditions

Jet Stream Forecast

Uk astro imaging forum

UK IR satellite cloud cover

Mount Wilson Observatory including archived sunspot drawings from the solar tower

IAU naming of planetary features




Established October 2000.           Copyright: P.J.Garbett