A selection of photographs taken by club-members.
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Jim Vincent managed to get an image of Saturn using a Philips Toucam webcam. No sign of enkes division though.

Jim Vincent took these images of Mars using a Philips Toucam webcam. The first one was taken on Saturday 23rd August 2003 and is made up from stacking 600 individual frames. Sinus Sabaeus can easily be seen as the dark elongation near the centre of the disk. The second was taken before midnight on the 2nd September 2003 and is made up from stacking 300 frames. Using exactly the same setup, you can clearly see how quickly Mars is receeding since its opposition on the 27th August.

Robin Cordell captured this shot of Mars in the early hours of Sunday 24th August 2003. Extracted from a video sequence using his camcorder held up against the eyepiece of his 8" telescope.

Dave Smith imaged Mars from the Dengie Peninsula in the early hours of Sunday 3rd August 2003. The final result is a stack of 12 images taken with his Nikon Coolpix 4500 camera.

Three Mars photos taken by Brian Boggenpoel early in the morning on the 26th July 2003. Taken using a Kodak DC240 and a 12" Maksutov.

1st ever Astrophoto by Claire Keith of the moon. Using a 4 inch 'Astroscan' reflector and a Nikon Coolpix 2000 digital camera. Camera settings were automatic.

Images taken by Andy Turner of a satellite transiting the moon.

Saturn Occultation - Saturn just emerging.   Some of Dave's other Occultation pictures of Nov. 3rd 2001 were published in the Feb 2002 issue of Sky and Telescope magazine in an article called 'A Saturn-Moon Spectacle' by J. Kelly Beatty.  Image taken by Dave Smith.

Jupiter - 23:38 GMT 10/12/01 - Image obtained by stacking 6 images using Astrostack
Shadow of Ganymede on Jupiter as well as Ganymede bottom right of Jupiter. The Great Red Spot is just disappearing to the left.  Image taken by Dave Smith.

For comparison this is the prediction from Brendan Murphy's java program. (Available free from the CPAC homepage).  Image taken by Dave Smith.

This image was obtained by combining the two images above in Paint Shop Pro. It gives a much better impression of what can be seen through the telescope.  Image taken by Dave Smith.

The Moon. 2400hrs GMT on 29/05/01.  Image taken by Dave Smith.

Saturn - This is the result of stacking about 20 images. Images that hardly showed the Cassini division were rejected. Image taken by Dave Smith.

The Sun - 21/05/01 around 1600hrs GMT using a homemade Baader solar filter. Image taken by Dave Smith.

29 April 2000 Benfleet, Essex
Junior Member, Alex Hills (aged 14) took these stunning pictures of sunspots. He projected the sun's image using his TAL-1 telescope.

11 August 1999 Berni-Riviere, France
Ted Rodway's Selection of Eclipse photographs.