WELCOME TO RUSSELL'S ASTRONOMY
Updated:
5th February 2010
Images of 2009 Orionid
meteor shower.
The
"Smiley Face" conjunction, 1st
December 2008.
Narrow Field Imaging with an
SBIG STL11000M camera and Takahashi
FS128 page added.
On these pages you will discover a
collection of my images and experiences relating to my astronomical
adventures in Australia, but also
some
from Scotland
and elsewhere
I am a member of the
Astronomical Society of
Victoria,
the largest astronomical society in the southern hemisphere. I was also a member of AFA, The Association of
Falkirk Astronomers, for a number
of years. It is a thriving Society based in the Central Region of
Scotland.
Please click on the links
below, or on the images above, to direct you to your astronomical subjects of
interest.
back to
Picture of the Month
Go to
My Photography
The Deep Sky pages display
Northern and
Southern
hemisphere objects, constellations, nebulae
and wide field Milky Way views. Narrow field
images taken through a Takahashi FS128 refractor and SBIG STL11000M camera. Magnificent! Algol- see the
famous variable star's brightness change before your eyes!
Images of noctilucent clouds
and miscellaneous atmospheric phenomena, such as
sunsets, sundogs, solar pillars, arcs, crepuscular rays, rainbows, etc and
a few iridium
flares.
Comets
- McNaught, Hyakutake, Hale-Bopp,
Ikeya-Zhang, C/2002 V1 (NEAT),
Q4 (NEAT) and C/2004 Q2 (Machholz).
Eclipses
- solar eclipses from 1976, 1999, 2001 and 2003, and lunar eclipses
from 2000 and
2001.
Pictures, report and
animation of the 21st June 2001 total solar eclipse from Zimbabwe.
Meteors - the 1999 Leonid meteor storm
over Egypt, 2001 Leonids from La Palma, Canary
Islands and the 2002 Leonid storm from SW Scotland.
2009 Orionids.
Learn about
radio
meteors
- observing
meteors without actually seeing them!
Aurorae
-
many beautiful displays observed
in Scotland from 2000 to 2003 and a
couple observed from Melbourne 2004
and 2005.
Roll
on Solar Max 2013 so we can see some more!
Beginner's Guide to basic
Astrophotography to find out more about how these images were taken.
All images © Russell
Cockman
