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Here you will find updates from our Instagram feed, where we showcase the images produced by AAS members. Click through to see technical data and credits.

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Our Mark Shelley took these photos of #Comet C/202

Our Mark Shelley took these photos of #Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) from his home this morning at 3:30am. It's easily visible with the naked eye and looks great through binoculars! This is a single 2sec exposure at ISO 200 using a 250mm focal length RedCat51 at f/4.9 on a Canon 600D. #astrophotography

Steve Hockley took this photo of #Comet C/2020 F3

Steve Hockley took this photo of #Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) at 03.30 on 07/07/2020 from Ramsgate beach. #astrophotography

Rajesh Naik took these great images of #Jupiter an

Rajesh Naik took these great images of #Jupiter and it’s moons. #astrophotography

The Eastern Veil Nebula by our Ewan Vellacott. Al

The Eastern Veil Nebula by our Ewan Vellacott.

Altair Astro Hypercam 183 Pro TEC (cooled astronomy camera)
Altair Astro TriBand filter
William Optics Megrez 72FD telescope
SkyWatcher HEQ5 Pro mount #easternveilnebula #astrophotography

Jonathan Larkin was glad to get a clear night in A

Jonathan Larkin was glad to get a clear night in Ashford last night to take this photo of #Jupiter and its moons. #astrophotography

Our member Aubrey Burden took this lovely photo of

Our member Aubrey Burden took this lovely photo of the conjunction of #Saturn, the full #moon and #Jupiter last night! #astrophotography

We just want to reassure our members that we have

We just want to reassure our members that we have not forgotten you! As lockdown measures ease and government guidance changes we are looking into options for resuming meetings as soon as it is reasonable to do so. We will let everyone know as soon as we have a date. In the meantime we would like to assure our paid members that all memberships have been paused effective ‪from 28th February‬ (the date of our last meeting) and will resume as if from that date when we are able to meet again. If you have any queries please feel free to contact the committee, either by direct message, a reply to this post, or through our other social media pages.
Although the summer months don't offer us much in the way of dark skies, there are still plenty of things to look out for in the coming weeks and months, including planets, meteor showers and satellite passes.
Wishing you all clear skies and good health,
AAS Commitee #ashfordastronomicalsociety

M13 by our own Jon Clarke. At this time of year it

M13 by our own Jon Clarke. At this time of year it’s hard to get “full dark”, so Jon had to work very late to capture this image. Well worth it, we think! #astrophotography #m13

Our featured member this week in the #meetAAS seri

Our featured member this week in the #meetAAS series is Drew Wagar! He says, “My name is Drew and I'm actually the first member of AAS, membership number 001! I served as the chairman many years ago. I've been interested in Astronomy since the age of about 7 when I attended the "Christmas Lectures" at the Royal Institution by none other than Carl Sagan. In the following years I also got to meet Patrick Moore at his house in Sussex, even banging out a tune on his piano. Astronomy has always captivated me and I'm hoping for humanity to discover incontrovertible proof of life elsewhere in the universe - I think it will do us good to understand we're not the centre of everything!”

Our Steve Hockley imaged the ISS along with SpaceX

Our Steve Hockley imaged the ISS along with SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour a few thousand miles into their second orbit from Ramsgate Harbour @ 10.16pm last night.

Our Andrew Collins spent a couple of hours at his $Our Andrew Collins spent a couple of hours at his observatory last night, he had a go at one of his favourites - the Witch’s Broom, part of the Veil Nebula. 12x10 min exposures using Altair 102mm refractor and Altair hypercam 249C with tri-band filter. #witchsbroom #astrophotography$

Our member Aubrey Burden says this is his “best

Our member Aubrey Burden says this is his “best Milky Way shot so far” and we agree it is brilliant! Taken with unmodified Canon 800D with 18-55mm Kit lens at F/4 ISO 3200 Shutter, 15 seconds exposure. #milkyway #astrophotography

Next in our #meetAAS series, we have Anita Wagar!

Next in our #meetAAS series, we have Anita Wagar! Anita says, “Hi, my name is Anita and you would usually find me out in the kitchen helping with the refreshments!
I have been involved with AAS since it was first started although for the first few years it involved me staying at home with the boys who were too young to attend! This allowed Drew to run the main meetings and committee meetings. Once Josh was old enough I started to attend as well.
There have been many changes over the years, from venues, events and people as well as a few challenges along the way. I really like the friendliness of the group and the family atmosphere. I enjoyed the ‘Young stars’ section which we had – talks given by the younger members - and love to encourage children and families to ‘look up and think wow!’
Recently I have started to get a bit more involved giving short talks on the stories behind the stars, not science but imagination and creativity sparked by the immensity of the Universe.”

The Western Veil or "Witches Broom" Nebula imaged

The Western Veil or "Witches Broom" Nebula imaged by our Ewan Vellacott last night. #astrophotography #witchesbroomnebula #westernveil

Following the recent announcement of the ongoing l

Following the recent announcement of the ongoing lockdown measures to combat the coronavirus outbreak, we have been left with little option but to cancel the next few meetings. These will be the May and June meetings, with July contingent upon the state of play with the virus and government advice at that time. We are of course disappointed by this as we had some good talks lined up. However, it is clear that the wellbeing of our members must be our primary concern. All our speakers are willing and able to reschedule, so we will still get to see them eventually. Before that can happen, the lockdown restrictions and social distancing rules must be relaxed significantly to allow us to gather in the Woodchurch Memorial Hall once again.

During this hiatus, all memberships are frozen, so if your membership was due to expire, or if you had only just signed up before we had to cancel the meetings, don’t worry. When regular meetings can be resumed your memberships will continue as if those months had not happened.

While the society may be unable to get together, astronomy is a great hobby during this period of social distancing, and we have seen some beautifully clear skies of late. We would love to hear about your own exploits. So get out those scopes, binoculars and cameras and let us know how you have been doing. There will still be regular sky tour updates on the website, and our social media platforms will be as active as ever, if not more so. We have already seen some amazing photography and we are delighted to see the number of people on our social media feeds steadily increasing.

We at the Committee wish you all clear skies and good health. Take care and stay safe during this unpleasant period. We look forward to seeing you all again soon.

Barry Inglis took these lovely photos of the #moon

Barry Inglis took these lovely photos of the #moon and #Venus #astrophotography

‪Globular cluster M13 presented at 2 different i

‪Globular cluster M13 presented at 2 different image scales, by our Mark Shelley. This is just over an hour of data shot last week with a Sony A7S camera on a Celestron C11 with 0.72x reducer/corrector. ‬
‪#Astrophotography #messier13 #globularcluster‬

‪The Inchworm Cluster by our Ewan Vellacott, 12

‪The Inchworm Cluster by our Ewan Vellacott, 12 x 30sec exposures stacked together.‬
‪#astrophotography #inchwormcluster‬

‪Our Ewan Vellacott took this wonderful image of

‪Our Ewan Vellacott took this wonderful image of the Moon last night! #astrophotography ‬#moon

‪Our Jon Clarke says that with the help of Roger

‪Our Jon Clarke says that with the help of Roger Booker and PixInsight software, he has managed to get colour out of his image of the Leo Triplet. Excellent stuff!‬ #astrophotography #leotriplet

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