To see the stars and the Aurora at their best, your eyes need 15 minutes to adjust to the dark. Avoid white lights and phone screens during this time. At Battlesteads Observatory, we use red lights to preserve our night vision, and we recommend you use a red-light torch at home, too. 🔠Aurora Update:...
So it turns out that one of the last comet discoveries of 2019 is brightening up and could be a good contender for a visual comet come the spring time. Comet c/2019Y4 Atlas is currently near the Plough and can be spotted in powerful binoculars or anything bigger than a small telescope – there’s a...
February Stargazing Guide Welcome to our monthly stargazing newsletter! If you want to find out more about this month’s events, then click here. https://www.battlesteads.com/observatory/calendar Planets Venus is still brightly on show throughout February but from about the 7th until about the 16th is joined by the planet Mercury. (At it’s best on the 10th.) Mercury...
This meteor show is one of the high points of the “Shooting Star” year and can produce prolific displays of between 40-300 shooting stars at the peak, which starts tonight and goes on into the morning of tomorrow the 4th if January. On average it produces about 120 per hour and these are usually faint...