Observing Reports

Supernova aaiv in galaxy NGC7331, 08 Sep 2026, Nigel Evans.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope against the background star field, 08 Sep 2026, Nigel Evans.

Image captured around the time of greatest eclipse, 28 Aug 2026, Jack Gleed.

Spectra of Nova Tauri 2026 and field stars, 16 Aug 2026, Mike Harlow.

A Perseid streaks just east of the Square of Pegasus, 12 Aug 2026, Mike Such.

220P in outburst, 13 Aug 2026, Nigel Evans.

Totality, 12 Aug 2025, Paul Whiting, FRAS.

The discarded rocket stage appears as a barely-visible dot, 04 Aug 2026, Nigel Evans.

Jupiter, with the Great Red Spot prominent, 07 Apr 2026, Andy Gibbs.

The Sun in Hα light, 08 Jul 2026, Steve McElvanney.

A sketch of the solar disk, 08 Jul 2026, Neil Morley.

The Horsehead and Flame nebulae, Stephen Olley, Jan 2023.

The Pleiades, 19 December 2025, Andy Gibbs.

The Moon and Venus, 17 June 2026, Stephen Tetlow.

Full moon, 13 Jan 2025, Paul Whiting, FRAS.

The Falcon 9 stage 2025-010D tumbling creates the impression of a trail of dashes in a time-exposure photograph, 05 Feb 2025, Nigel Evans.

C/2025 R3 imaged with a Seestar S30, 14 Apr 2026, Louise Manning.

M33, 21 Nov 2025, Martin Cook.

C/2026 A1 imaged by the SOHO spacecraft, 04 Apr 2026.

Aurora from Elmeswell, Suffolk, 19 Jan 2026, Chrissi Nunn.

At a distance of 1.6m km, GS-2 appears as a faint dot in a time-exposure, 30 Nov 2025, Nigel Evans.

The Milky Way above Hobbiton, New Zealand, 24 Feb 2026, Mike Maran.

Eros sweeps past M33, 05 Jan 2026, Nigel Evans.

Variations on processing an image of 3I reveal a short tail and a non-circular head, 20 Dec 2026, Nigel Evans.

A flare caused by Cosmos 1538, 09 Sep 2025, David Murton.

The head of C/2025 K1 displays three distinct components, 20 Nov 2025, Nigel Evans.

240P displays two heads, 19 Dec 2025, Nigel Evans.

A propellant dump from a Chinese Zhuque-3 rocket was widely seen from southern England, 03 Dec 2025, Nigel Evans.

C/2025 R2, 25 Oct 2025, Paul Whiting, FRAS.

C/2025 A6, 24 Oct 2025, Mike Maran.

Observers waiting for the eclipse to start, 07 Sep 2026, Neil Morley.

A train of Starlink satellites and a passage of the ISS recorded in a timelapse image, 26 Feb 2025, Alan Smith.

Evolution of sunspots, 03-08 Apr 2025, Steve McElvanney & Neil Morley.

Progress of the Moon through the Pleiades, 01 Apr 2025, Nigel Evans.

Mid-eclipse, 29 Mar 2025, Steve McElvanney.

The fuel dump looks similar to a spiral galaxy! 24 Mar 2025, Nigel Evans.

Second stage of the Falcon 9 carrier rocket, 28 Feb 2025, Nigel Evans.

Trajectory of JWST as it maintains its orbital position, 22-23 Feb 2025, Nigel Evans.

Trajectories of a constellation of Astra satellites, 03-04 Mar 2025, Nigel Evans.

Motion of Gaia, 30 Jan 2025, Nigel Evans.

Star field around Auriga, 31 Jan 2025, Michael Maran.

Motion of Eris, 29 Nov 2024 - 10 Jan 2025, Nigel Evans.

C/2023 A3, 16 Oct 2024, Andy Gibbs.

Falcon carrier rocket, 08 Oct 2024, Nigel Evans.

Polaris Dawn skims the SE horizon, 14 Sep 2024, Nigel Evans.

A fireball streaks through Cepheus & Draco, 11 Nov 2021, Alan Smith.

JUICE, at a distance of 2.8m km, appears as a faint dot, 11 Aug 2026, Nigel Evans.

Nacreous cloud seen from Banchory, 23 Jan 2023, Patrick Cook.

Noctilucent cloud seen from Needham Market, 22 Jun 2021, Mike Howlett.

Sequence of images captures during the eclipse, 08 Apr 2024, Neil Short.

12P, 01 Apr 2024, Martin Cook.

Active region AR3590, Martin Cook, 23 Feb 2024.

Actual and predicted positions of IM-1 against the background stars, 18 Feb 2024, Nigel Evans.

Trajectory of the Peregrine Centaur stage, 10 Jan 2024, Nigel Evans.

Trajectory of the toolbag (plus three satellite trails), 24 Nov 2023, Nigel Evans.

Psyche and its Falcon booster stage, 14 Oct 2023, Nigel Evans.

Sophisticated image processing makes C/2023 P1 visible against a hazy horizon, 15 Sep 2023, Nigel Evans.

Chandrayaan-3, at a distance of 120,000 km appears as a faint dot, 26 July 2023, Nigel Evans.

The booster, at a distance of 1m km, is only just visible, 07-08 July 2023.

The ISS transits the Moon, 27 May 2023, Martin Cook.

Image of the diamond ring, 20 Apr 2023, observer unknown.

C/2022 E3, 30 Jan 2023, Alan Bullivant.

C/2020 V2, 02 Jan 2023, Nigel Evans.

Didymos is follwed by a debris trail, 30 Dec 2022, Nigel Evans.

In a time exposure, the Orion crew capsule creates a trail against the background stars.

A montage shows the evolution of the eclipse, 25 Oct 2022, Martin Richmond-Hardy.

The Boeing Starliner shortly before docking with the ISS, 20 May 2022.

The Moon at age 24 hours, 01 May 2022, Nigel Evans.

C/2019 L3, 22 Mar 2022, Nigel Evans.

67P, 29 Jan 2022, Nigel Evans.

Evolution of the double shadow transit, 04 Oct 2021, Nigel Evans.

The Dragon crew capsule, shortly after undocking from the ISS, the two craft remaining co-orbital.

Montage of images captured during the eclipse, 10 Jun 2021, Neil Short.

Evolution of Gyulbudaghian's Nebula, March-December 2020, Mike Harlow.

C/2020 M3 appears most unimpressive! 18 Nov 2020, Nigel Evans.

Deimos is visible beyond the glare from Mars, 10 Oct 2020, Nigel evans.

C/2020 F3 is clearly visible above the rooftops of Ipswich, 20 Jul 2020, Roy Gooding.

A time lapse image reveals the motion of C/2019 Y4, 26-27 Mar 2020, Nigel Evans.

C/2020 F8, 20 May 2020, Nigel Evans.

C/2017 T2, 28 Nov 2019, Mike Harlow.

The Moon in eclipse, 10 Jan 2020, Andy Gibbs.

Tracks of the Sun recorded by a solargraph, 22 Jun-22 Dec 2019, John Hughes.

M31-G1, 02 Dec 2019, Nigel Evans.

Mercury in mid-transit, 11 Nov 2019, Alan Smith.

The Milky Way seen from Alice Springs, 19 Sep 2019, Neil Short.

Spectrum of cataclysmic variable SS Cygni, 19 Aug 2019, Mike Harlow.

The Moon around the time of greatest eclipse, 16 Jul 2019, Mike Harlow.

The diamond ring, 02 Jul 2019, Paul Whiting, FRAS.

Evolution of a prominence, 19-22 Apr 2019, Martin Cook.

ZC2401 on the lunar limb, 26 Mar 2019, James Appleton.

Timelapse image shows the motion of C/2018 Y1 on the night of 26 Feb 2019, Nigel Evans.

The motion of Barnard's Star, 2005-2016, Nigel Evans.

A sequence of images captured throughout the eclipse, 21 Jan 2019, Adam Honeybell.

46P, 24 Dec 2018, Mike O'Mahony.

A star field containing M8, M20, M22 and Saturn, 16 May 2018, Nigel Evans.

The Large Magellanic Cloud and Coalsack, 22 Apr 2018, Neil Short.

Double quasar QSO0957+561, 17-18 Apr 2018, Nigel Evans.

Estimates of the magnitude of Mira, Aug-Nov 2012, Joe Startin.

The full moon setting, 01 Feb 2018, Mike Norris.

UCAC4-410-143659 occulted by Triton, 05 Oct 2017, Mike O'Mahony.

Structure is visible in the solar corona, 21 Aug 2017, Paul Whiting, FRAS.

Full Moon, 13 Nov 2016, Mike O'Mahony.

Mercury appears as a small dot on the solar limb, 09 May 2016, David Murton.

Evolution of a prominence, 02-03 Apr 2016, David Murton.

A montage of images around 2^nd and 3^rd contacts, 09 Mar 2016, Nigel Evans.

C/2013 US10, 23 Dec 2015, David Murton.

Estimated light curve of SS Cas, Aug-Dec 1980, Mike Nichols.

The eclipsed Moon, 28 Sep 2015, Kevin Fulcher.

Spectra of χ Cygni, 25 Jul 2015, Mike Harlow.

Sequence of images shot throughout the eclipse, 20 Mar 2015, Neil Short.

The solar analemma, Feb 2014-Feb 2015, Alan Smith.

C/2014 Q2, 15 Jan 2015, David Murton.

Map of estimates of sky darkness, winter 2014-2015, Paul Whiting, FRAS.

C/2014 E2, 23 Aug 2014, David Murton.

Estimates of the distance of Mars, Mar-Jul 2014, Mike O'Mahony.

Uranus and its four largest satellites, 04 Jan 2014, Mike Harlow.

Relationships between the distance of Jupiter and the time of phenomena of Io, 10 Dec 2014, James Appleton.

Spectra of four bright stars, 11 Jan 2013, Mike Harlow.

A sketch of C/2011 L4, 29 Apr 2013, Andrew Robertson.

C/2012 S1 and Ceres appear approximately 0.5° apart, 02 May 2013, Mike Harlow.

Totality, 14 Nov 2012, Paul Whiting, FRAS.

168P, 14 Oct 2012, Mike Harlow.

Venus in mid-transit, 06 Jun 2012, Mike O'Mahony.

Nebulosity around γ Cygni, November 2011, Ben Jarvis.

Sketch of Jupiter, 23 Nov 2011, Neil Morley.

A sequence of images captured during the eclipse, 15 Jun 2011, Paul Whiting, FRAS.

The eclipse fleetingly visible through thick cloud, 04 Jan 2011, Ted Sampson.

The diamond ring, 11 Jul 2010, Paul Whiting, FRAS.

The opposition loop of Mars, 2010, James Appleton.

Abell 3, 20 Sep 2009, Mike Harlow.

The Sun immediately prior to totality, seen through dense cloud, 22 Jul 2009, Paul Whiting, FRAS.

29P, 09 Oct 2008, Mike Harlow.

C/2006 OF2, 11 Oct 2008, Mike Harlow.

Totality, 01 Aug 2008, Paul Whiting, FRAS.

C/2008 C1, 31 Mar 2008, Mike Harlow.

17P, 07 Dec 2007, Mike Harlow.

8P, 11 Dec 2007, Mike Harlow.

Greatest eclipse, 03 Mar 2007, Martin Cook.

The grouping of Mercury and Venus in the evening sky after sunset, 11 Feb 2007.

C/2006 P1, 10 Jan 2007, Nigel Evans.

C/2006 M4, 02 Nov 2006, Mike Harlow.

Totality, 19 Mar 2006, Paul Whiting, FRAS.

A sequence of images captured throughout the eclipse, 03 Oct 2005, Nigel Evans.

C/2004 Q2, 08 Jan 2005, Dave McCracken.

Mid-transit, 08 Jun 2004, Dave Robinson.

Constellation Gemini.

The eclipsed Sun shortly after sunrise, 31 May 2003, Dave McCracken.

Mercury at mid-transit together with a large sunspot, 07 May 2003, Mike Whybray.

Magnitudes of stars in the Pleiades.

Montage of images of totality, 04 Dec 2002, Nigel Evans.

Variation in ΔT estimated by analysis of occultation timings, 12 Sep 2002, James Appleton.

153P, 07 Apr 2002, Nigel Evans.

Mid-eclipse observed through cloud, 14 Dec 2001, Mike Harlow.

The diamond ring, 21 Jun 2001, Sue Brown.

Trails created by STS-99 and its discarded external fuel tank, 11 Feb 2000, Nigel Evans.

Image taken around the time of greatest eclipse, 09 Jan 2001, Nigel Evans.

AR9169, 25 Sep 2000, Nick Sullivan.

A Leonid meteor near Gemini, 17 Nov 1999, Nigel Evans.

Baily's beads at the end of totality, 11 Aug 1999, Mike Whybray.

A Leonid fireball trail, 17 Nov 1998, Mike Harlow.

Mid-eclipse, 22 Aug 1998, Mike Harlow.

Baily's beads and the chromosphere just prior to totality, 26 Feb 1998.

Configuration of the Galileans just prior to mutual phenomena of Io and Ganymede, James Appleton, 25 Sep 1997.

C/1995 O1, 29 Mar 1997, Alan Smith.

C/1996 Q1, 18 Oct 1996, Mike Harlow.

Mid-eclipse, 12 Oct 1996, Mike Harlow.

Image captured during the partial phase, 27 Sep 1996, Mike Harlow.

C/1996 B2, 31 Mar 1996, Gary Marriott.

Text report; no images.

The path of C/1990 K1, 13-21 Aug 1990, Roy Adams.

Estimated variation in the magnitude of 28 Sgr during occultation, 03 Jul 1989, Alan Smith & Martin Cook.

Digitised sketch of the star field around Pluto, 05 May 1989, David Payne.

Evolution of a sunspot group, 22 Oct-22 Nov 1988, Roy Adams.

A sketch of Mars, 02 Nov 1988, David Payne.

Sketch of sunspots, 21 Jan 1988, Roy Adams.

Text report; no images.

C/1986 V1, 12 Dec 1986, Mike Harlow.

Text report; no images.

Images captured during the passage of C/1986 P1, 10 Aug-07 Sep 1986, Mike Harlow.

Digitised sketch of the star field around Pluto, 15, 16 & 18 May 1986, David Payne.

1P, 11 Apr 1986, Alan Smith.

Text report; no images.

Fireball, 23 Apr 1984, Alan Smith.

Sketch of sunspots, 24 Apr 1985, Roy Adams.

Digitised sketches of Mercury, Venus and Mars, 17 Mar 1985, David Payne.

Text report; no images.

Sketch of Jupiter, 20 Aug 1983, Carl Cornish.

Text report; no images.

Sketch of a large sunspot group, 23 Mar 1983, C R Baldry.

Text report; no images.

Text report; no images.

Sketch of the solar disk, 24 Oct 1978, Roy Adams.

Evolution of the solar eclipse, 29 Apr 1976, Alan Smith.

Evolution of the lunar eclipse, 18 Nov 1975, Alan Smith.

Sketch of the solar disk, 02 Jul 1975, Roy Cheesman.

Sketch of a suspected TLP, 18-19 Jun 1975, John Deans.

Text report; no images.

Magnitude estimates for nine variable stars, Jun-Nov 1974.

PAGEOS (image courtesy of NASA).