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Observations By Members Of OASI

Observation Observer Date
Star clusters Various 1994 - 12 January 2021
Fireballs & satellites Alan Smith, James Appleton 23 June 2018 - 09 January 2021
The Sun Various 25 January 1984 - 31 December 2020
Variable nebulae Mike Harlow 08 April 2008 - 30 December 2020
Planetary and lunar groupings Various 01 June 1980 - 25 December 2020
Novae & supernovae Various 17 September 1978 - 26 November 2020
Planets Various 19 October 2000 - 19 November 2020
Comet C/2020 M3 (ATLAS) Nigel Evans 18 November 2020
Starlink satellites Nigel Evans et al 04 January - 04 November 2020
Martian moon Deimos Nigel Evans 10 & 26 October 2020
Near Earth Objects (NEOs) Nigel Evans, Mike Harlow 07 January 2008 - 24 September 2020
Nebulae Various 1994 - 21 September 2020
2020 Perseid meteor shower Various 28 July - 13 August 2020
International Space Station (ISS) Martin Cook et al 06 August 2013 - 11 August 2020
Solar activity John Hughes 26-31 July 2020
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) Various 06-30 July 2020
Noctilucent clouds Various 28 June 1993 - 05 July 2020
Passage of the Dragon Crew Capsule Nigel Evans 30 May 2020
Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) Nigel Evans 17 March - 20 May 2020
Comet C/2020 F8 (SWAN) Nigel Evans 20 May 2020
Galaxies Various 1994 - 15 April 2020
Close approach of Venus to the Pleiades Martin Cook, Nigel Evans 31 March - 04 April 2020
Kuiper belt objects Mike Harlow, Nigel Evans 23 May 2009 - 26 March 2020
Comet C/2017 T2 (PanSTARRS) Mike Harlow, Nigel Evans 29 November 2019 - 24 March 2020
Geostationary satellites Nigel Evans 08 October 2004 - 02 March 2020
Lunar penumbral eclipse Roger Driver, Andy Gibbs 10 January 2020
Solargraph John Hughes 22 June - 22 December 2019
Globular cluster G1 in orbit around M31 Nigel Evans 02 December 2019
Transit of Mercury James Appleton et al 11 November 2019
Cataclysmic variables Mike Harlow 23 March - 07 September 2019
Meteors Various 26 October 1973 - 13 August 2019
Australian skies Neil J Short 19 September 2019
Atmospheric phenomena Various 01 June 2001 - 16 July 2019
Lunar partial eclipse Various 16 July 2019
Solar total eclipse Paul Whiting, FRAS 02 July 2019
Evolution of a solar prominence Martin Cook 19-22 April 2019
Grazing lunar occultations Various 21 October 1974 - 26 March 2019
Comet C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) Nigel Evans 26 February 2019
Stellar proper motions Nigel Evans 13 September 2015 - 24 February 2019
Lunar total eclipse Various 21 January 2019
The Moon Various 13 November 1983 - 14 January 2019
Aurorae Various 13 March 1989 - 13 January 2019
Comet 46P/Wirtanen Various 06 February 2008 - 24 December 2018
Southern star fields seen from La Palma Nigel Evans 16 May 2018
New Zealand skies Neil J Short 07-22 April 2018
Double quasar, QSO0957+561 Nigel Evans 17-18 April 2018
Motion of asteroid 1981 Midas Nigel Evans 19 March 2018
Motion of asteroid 2017 VR12 Nigel Evans 07 March 2018
Variable star Mira (ο Cet) Joe Startin 18 August 2012 - 12 February 2018
Full moon and lunar total eclipse Various 31 January 2018
Motion of asteroid 3200 Phaethon Nigel Evans 16 December 2017
Occultation of UCAC4-410-143659 by Triton Mike O'Mahony 05 October 2017
The Milky Way David Murton et al 31 July 2006 - 25 August 2017
Solar total eclipse Paul Whiting, FRAS, et al 21 August 2017
Supermoon David Murton, Mike O'Mahony 13 November 2016
Constellations and star trails Various 31 October 1997 - 30 September 2016
Satellites David Murton, Kevin Fulcher 08 August 2015 - 04 June 2016
Transit of Mercury James Appleton et al 09 May 2016
Evolution of solar prominences David Murton 02-03 April 2016
Solar total eclipse Paul Whiting, FRAS, Nigel Evans 09 March 2016
Comet C/2013 US10 (Catalina) David Murton 09 December 2015 - 15 January 2016
Variable stars Mike Nicholls 04 July 1980 - 29 December 2015
Lunar total eclipse David Murton et al 28 September 2015
Project Cepheus Mike Harlow 20 May - 11 August 2015
Solar total eclipse Andy Gibbs et al 20 March 2015
Solar analemma Alan Smith 18 February 2014 - 18 February 2015
Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) David Murton et al 03 January - 18 February 2015
Winter 2014-15 sky darkness survey.   Introduction   Results   Google map of BDI Paul Whiting, FRAS 19 August 2014 - 26 January 2015
Albireo Kev Fulcher 25 September 2014
Comet C/2014 E2 (Jacques) David Murton 16-23 August 2014
Distance of Mars Mike O'Mahony 01 April - 17 July 2014
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto Mike Harlow 28 December 2013 - 02 June 2014
Observations of Galilean eclipses to investigate the speed of light by Rømer's method James Appleton et al 01 November 2012 - 18 May 2014
Spectroscopic observations Mike Harlow, Mike O'Mahony 09 January - 13 November 2013
Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) Mike Harlow, Andrew Robertson 13 March - 14 May 2013
Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) Mike Harlow 17 January - 02 May 2013
Solar total eclipse Paul Whiting, FRAS, Nigel Evans 13 November 2012
Comet 168P/Hergenrother Mike Harlow 14 October 2012
Transit of Venus James Appleton et al 06 June 2012
Astronomical images on Flickr Ben Jarvis 2011
Sketches of Jupiter during its 2011-12 apparition Neil Morley, Dale Holt 20 October - 23 November 2011
Lunar total eclipse Paul Whiting, FRAS 15 June 2011
Solar partial eclipse Ted Sampson 04 January 2011
Solar total eclipse Paul Whiting, FRAS 11 July 2010
Opposition loop of Mars James Appleton 17 January - 16 June 2010
Planetary nebulae Abell 2 and Abell 3 Mike Harlow 20 September 2009
Solar total eclipse Paul Whiting, FRAS 22 July 2009
Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 Mike Harlow 24 January 2008 - 03 January 2009
Comet C/2006 OF2 (Broughton) Mike Harlow 02-11 October 2008
Solar total eclipse Paul Whiting, FRAS, et al 01 August 2008
Comet C/2008 C1 (Chen-Gao) Mike Harlow 04 February - 31 March 2008
Comet 17P/Holmes Mike Harlow et al 27 October 2007 - 26 February 2008
Comet 8P/Tuttle Mike Harlow 15 November - 12 December 2007
Lunar occultations of planets Various 02 March 1974 - 22 May 2007
Lunar total eclipse and the Danjon Scale of brightness Paul Whiting, FRAS et al 03 March 2007
Naked eye & binocular observations of Mercury James Appleton et al 02 - 11 February 2007
Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) Mike Harlow 10 January 2007
Comet C/2006 M4 (Swan) Mike Harlow 02 November 2006
Solar total eclipse Paul Whiting, FRAS 29 March 2006
Solar annular eclipse Paul Whiting, FRAS, Nigel Evans 03 October 2005
Comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) Mike Harlow, Dave McCracken 26 December 2004 - 12 January 2005
Transit of Venus James Appleton et al 08 June 2004
Gemini observing project James Appleton et al 28 December 2003 - 01 March 2004
Solar annular eclipse Dave McCracken et al 31 May 2003
Transit of Mercury James Appleton et al 07 May 2003
Pleiades observing project James Appleton 18 October - 09 December 2002
Solar total eclipse Nigel Evans, Paul Whiting 04 December 2002
Analysis of lunar occultations James Appleton 1999 - 2002
Comet 153P/Ikeya-Zhang Nigel Evans 07-09 April 2002
Solar annular eclipse Mike Harlow et al 14 December 2001
Solar total eclipse Mike Harlow, Sue Brown 21 June 2001
Space shuttle Nigel Evans 11 February 2000 & 16-17 February 2001
Lunar total eclipse Nigel Evans 09 January 2001
Solar active region AR9169 Pete Richards, Nick Sullivan 25 September 2000
Leonid meteor shower Neil Morley et al 17-19 November 1999
Solar total eclipse Nigel Evans et al 11 August 1999
Leonid meteor shower Mike Harlow et al 16-18 November 1998
Solar annular eclipse Mike Harlow 22 August 1998
Solar total eclipse Mike Harlow 26 February 1998
Mutual phenomena of Galilean satellites James Appleton 25 September 1997
Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) Mike Harlow et al 15 October 1996 - 31 March 1997
Comet C/1996 Q1 (Tabur) Mike Harlow 18 October 1996
Solar partial eclipse Mike Harlow 12 October 1996
Lunar total eclipses Mike Harlow 03 April & 27 September 1996
Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) Mike Harlow et al 07-31 March 1996
Solar total eclipse Pete Richards 11 July 1991
Comet C/1990 K1 (Levy) David Payne, Roy Adams 13 July - 21 August 1990
Occultation Of 28 Sagittarii By Titan Alan Smith, Martin Cook 03 July 1989
Tour of the solar system in one evening David Payne 03-05 May 1989
Evolution of a sunspot group Roy Adams 22 October - 22 November 1988
Mars at opposition David Payne 01 October - 16 November 1988
Sunspots Roy Adams 21 January 1988
Sagittarius David Payne 03-04 July 1987
Comet C/1986 V1 (Sorrells) Mike Harlow 12 December 1986
Lunar total eclipse Mike Harlow 17 October 1986
Comet C/1986 P1 (Wilson) Mike Harlow 10 August - 07 September 1986
Pluto David Payne 26 April 1984 - 18 May 1986
Comet 1P/Halley Various 05 October 1985 - 17 April 1986
Miscellaneous observations David Payne February - March 1986
Fireballs David Barnard et al 30 July 1973 - 12 January 1986
Start of a new sunspot cycle? Roy Adams 24 April 1985
Mercury, Venus & Mars David Payne 17 March 1985
Solar partial eclipse Roy Gooding 30 May 1984
Venus Carl Cornish 16 February - 28 December 1983
Jupiter & Saturn Carl Cornish 11 June - 20 August 1983
Comet C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock) David Barnard 07-10 May 1983
Sunspots C R Baldry 10 February - 23 March 1980
Comet 38P/Stephan-Oterma Roy Adams 30 November 1980
Miscellaneous observations Robert Townsend 10-11 May 1980
Weather phenomena Roy Cheesman, Alan Smith 03 March 1980
Sunspots Roy Adams 22 September - 24 October 1978
Solar partial eclipse Alan Smith 29 April 1976
Lunar total eclipse Alan Smith 18 November 1975
Sunspots Roy Cheesman, John Deans 25 June - 23 August 1975
Transient Lunar Phenomena John Deans 21 February - 19 June 1975
Appulse of Saturn and SAO 79057 John Deans 11 January 1975
Variable stars Tom Cardot, David Barnard 20 June - 14 November 1974
PAGEOS Balloon-Satellite Roy Cheesman 18 October 1972


Updated: 18 January 2021