Startrek
27-06-2023, 03:06 AM
My wife had a nice afternoon shopping at Harrods so it was my turn to indulge a bit in London. We visited the Royal Greenwich Observatory the following day and both enjoyed it immensely.
The walk from Cutty Sark through Greenwich Park up the hill to the Observatory was beautiful.
Lots of history walking through the old buildings including Flamsteed House, The Meridian Observatory, Altazimuth Pavilion and the Great Equatorial Telescope.
Finished the day at the Peter Harrison Planetarium for a 40 minute visual tour of the local night sky in a lounge chair theatre.
Photos attached
Cheers
Martin
( Posted from Bloomsbury London, UK )
PS: You can forget observing or imaging in the UK during summer , it gets darkish around 11.30pm and the Sun starts rising at 4.00am ( never gets pitch dark , it’s like a twilight, even worse up around Scotland)
Apparently Winter is mostly foggy , cloudy and wet
I take my hat off to UK amateur astronomers they must be a passionate lot.
The walk from Cutty Sark through Greenwich Park up the hill to the Observatory was beautiful.
Lots of history walking through the old buildings including Flamsteed House, The Meridian Observatory, Altazimuth Pavilion and the Great Equatorial Telescope.
Finished the day at the Peter Harrison Planetarium for a 40 minute visual tour of the local night sky in a lounge chair theatre.
Photos attached
Cheers
Martin
( Posted from Bloomsbury London, UK )
PS: You can forget observing or imaging in the UK during summer , it gets darkish around 11.30pm and the Sun starts rising at 4.00am ( never gets pitch dark , it’s like a twilight, even worse up around Scotland)
Apparently Winter is mostly foggy , cloudy and wet
I take my hat off to UK amateur astronomers they must be a passionate lot.