Astronomical Events

November 10 - Full Moon. The Moon will be directly opposite the Earth from the Sun and will be fully illuminated as seen from Earth. This phase occurs at 20:16 UTC.

November 17, 18 - Leonids Meteor Shower. The Leonids is one of the better meteor showers to observe, producing an average of 40 meteors per hour at their peak.

November 25 - New Moon. The Moon will be directly between the Earth and the Sun and will not be visible from Earth. This phase occurs at 06:10 UTC.

November 25 - Partial Solar Eclipse. This partial eclipse will only be visible over Antarctica and parts of South Africa and Tasmania.

December 10 - Full Moon. The Moon will be directly opposite the Earth from the Sun and will be fully illuminated as seen from Earth. This phase occurs at 14:36 UTC.

December 10 - Total Lunar Eclipse. The eclipse will be visible throughout most of Europe, eastern Africa, Asia, Australia, the Pacific Ocean, and the North America.

December 13, 14 - Geminids Meteor Shower. Considered by many to be the best meteor shower in the heavens, the Geminids are known for producing up to 60 multicolored meteors per hour at their peak.

December 22 - December Solstice. The December solstice occurs 05:30 UTC. This is the first day of winter (winter solstice) in the northern hemisphere and the first day of summer (summer solstice) in the southern hemisphere.

Contact

Sandor Kruk

Newman House
111 Gower Street, Room 219
London, WC1E6 AR, United Kingdom
+(44) 755 3693403
sandor-iozsef.kruk.10@ucl.ac.uk

Astrophotography

I have had a passion for astrophotography since 2009 when I bought a DSLR Canon EOS 550D Camera and a Meade 125 mm telescope for the "Vasile Lucaciu" National College Astronomy Club.

Some of the images I took this year can be seen below:

Some of the images (Sun, Moon, the partial solar eclipse and the Pleiades) were taken using the DSLR Camera and the Meade telescope. The other images were taken by me and Bob Winter using the Celestron 14" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope and the CCD camera at ULO . The images were made in different filters: red, green, blue, H-alpha and OIII and then they were combined using MaximDL.

The two telescopes using which the images were taken can be seen below:

Meade ETX-125 (left) and Celestron 14" Schmidt-Cassegrain (right)