Chilterns Astronomer

The UVEX spectroscope is a new instrument enabling amateur astronomers to study stars in near ultraviolet (for hot active stars) and in...

History of the Society Former Chairman Graham Marett gave a very interesting talk on 23rd March describing some key events in the history ...

My 7 Amp-hour powertank has unfortunately been out of action after I left the 12V power circuit switched on for a prolonged period. The batt...

One of my favourite programs from Sky and Telescope magazine's Astronomical Computing column was one which produced a visualisation of ...

In June I obtained an Atik 314L+ cooled CCD camera which I plan to use primarily for spectroscopy (see Shelyak Instruments ). As a Linux use...

Today I installed the Django web framework on my Raspberry Pi, using Nginx as the web server and fastcgi to delegate page requests to Djang...

Last October (2010) I wrote a post on extrasolar planets. At that time almost 500 planets beyond our Solar System had been discovered. In th...