Recent Activity

Out with the 6 inch Newtonian and the video camera on Thursday 23rd July 2020. The primary goal was to see if the jet coming from M87 could be viewed/imaged. This after reading an article in the latest Australian Sky & Telescope magazine saying that it is necessary to use a very large telescope to see the jet at the eyepiece. Although very low in the north-western sky M87 turned up trumps, easily showing its jet with a 30 second exposure. A screen capture showing the galaxy at 100% resolution has been added to the Outreach page and a Photoshop version of the full frame with an enlargement insert has been added to the images page.