Romsey Astronomical Society

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September 2009: Intensive project of variable star astronomy underway. All observations are being submitted to the AAVSO, the worlds leading variable star astronomy organisation. At the moment members are getting to grips with the assortment of new variables now within range and members have reported getting down to magnitude 14.5 from Romsey...quite an achievement

September 2009 

Romsey Astronomical Society have now taken loan of a 12" S/C LX200 that has been kindly lent to the society by a local benefactor. The scope has already been housed in its own run off roof observatory and has already been put to work on an intensive project of variable star observations, including Mira, R CrB, GCAS and numerous other types of variables. The scope is also giving splendid views of the moon and members have been very content with sketching the landscape that has been presented in recent weeks. Deep sky is also proving interesting and members have reported at least dropping to magnitude 14.5 from Romsey. The Blue Snowball appears to be a favourite amongst members.

July  15th 2009:

Membership application forms have been designed and are awaiting uploading to the Romsey AS site. Constitution is also being prepared and will be issued soon....watch this space

July 5th 2009:

Well after a long period of inactivity its been good to finally see an excellent sunspot group on the solar surface today. AR1024 consists of a large sunspot surrounded by at least 6 smaller ones, according to our observations today. Below are some images of the sunspot from various sources. Our observation can be seen on the gallery page. If you have observed AR1024 and would like to submit your observation to us then please do so by emailing to romseyas@live.co.uk

Above: Image of AR1024 from spaceweather.com

Below: Image of AR1024 from the SOHO website