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Welcome to my website describing my astronomical observatory in NE Scotland (UK) together with my observing and imaging activities over the past 20 years. A roll-off roof observatory originally housed an 8" LX200 SCT telescope + ST7 CCD Camera, but was upgraded to a 12" LX200R SCT telescope + ST10-XME CCD Camera in 2009. An 180 deg AllSKy Camera were added in 2014.  More recently an 80mm APO secondary scope + ZWO 178MC Camera were added in 2017, and equipment was moved into a new 2.2m Dome Observatory in 2018 and made fully automated in 2019-2022.
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2024-02-17 Comets 2024, updated 2024-02-17 , 12P/Pons-Brooks & 13P/Olbers
2023-10-12 Comets 2023, updated 2023-10-12 , 12P/Pons-Brooks - Outburst
2023-09-12 Aurora Display (2023-09-12 /2023-09-13)
2023-03-23 Bright Aurora Display (2023-03-23 /2023-03-24)
2023-03-14 Aurora Display (2023-03-14 /2023-03-15)
2023-02-13 C/2019 U5 (PANSTARRS), C/2020 V2 (ZTF), C/2022 A2 (PANSTARRS), C/2022 E3 (ZTF), AT 2023ds, AT 2023fm, AT 2023nf, AT 2023vq, Nova M33 2022-11a?, IC 1525 w/AT2023aov, IC 1874 w/SN2023fu, MCG +5-26-43 w/SN2023af, NGC 1333, NGC 2528 w/SN2023jo, NGC 2708 w/SN2023bee, NGC 3705 w/SN2022xxf, NGC 4666 w/AT2023axn, NGC 4668, NGC 5468 w/SN2023cj, NGC 5631 w/SN2022aaiq, NGC 5784 w/SN2023bch, UGC 8046 w/SN2022zxr, UGC 10407 w/AT2022adyb (S01098)
2022-11-28 Aurora Display (S01064), 2022-11-28
2022-11-24 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann - Outburst
2022-04-27 Aurora Display (S01004), 2022-04-28 am
2022-02-04 Aurora Display (S00963)
2022-02-03 Weak Aurora Display (S00962), 2022-02-04 am
2022-01-08 Aurora Display (S00952)
2022-01-01 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, C/2019 L3 (ATLAS), Nova Per 2020, Nova Cas 2021, AT2021bnz (CV?), AT2021acba (YSO?), AT2021afpi, AT2021hfr (Ulens?), AT2021agjs (Ulens?), AT2021agmc (BL), Hickson 39, IC 3322A w/SN2021hiz, MCG +6-30-84 w/SN2021K, NGC 1569, NGC 2761 w/SN2021aggu, NGC 3310, NGC 4165 w/SN2021gno, NGC 4168, NGC 7446 w/SN2021agdd, PGC 27825, PKS0735+17, UGCA 173, UGCA 240, UGCA 276, UGC 1098 w/AT2021ahep, UGC 1971 w/SN2021afkk, UGC 5829, UGC 8426, UGC 8975 w/SN2021adpe (S00947)
2021-10-30 Aurora Display (S00930)
2021-09-27 Atlas V Rocket Burn (S00917)
2021-08-23 Nova Cas 2021 (V1405 Cas) Spectra
2021-08-17 SN 2021, Novae, BL, CV, LBV, LRN, YSO (Transients)
2021-01-27 Irregular Galaxies, Galaxies
2021-01-12 ARP 69, Caldwell 53, MCG +6-30-84 w/SN2021K, NGC 1110, NGC 5579 UGCA 24, UGCA 43, UGCA 200, UGCA 211, UGCA 259, UGCA 291, UGC 784 w/SN2021pc, UGC 1436 w/SN2021nv, UGC 2528 w/SN2020adnx, UGC 4704, UGC 5341, UGC 6930 w/SN2020rcq  (S00849)
2021-01-07 Image Collections : M31M33, M101
2021-01-02 277P/LINEAR, 398P/Boattini, Nova Per 2020, UGC 1161 w/SN2020acch, UGC 2528 w/SN2020adnx  (S00843)
2020-12-31 Highlights 2020
2020-04-06 UGCA Galaxies
2020-01-21 Shakhbazian Compact Galaxy Groups
2019-09-16 C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)  (S00695)
2019-08-22 Ring Galaxies
2019-02-26 HAT-P-12 b Exoplanet Transit (S00669)
2019-01-31 Bright aurora on night 2019-01-31
2017-11-26 Solar Imaging with Herschel Wedge, First Light (S00606)Notes (S00606)
2017-01-18 First Light with TS 80mm APO (S00600) / Notes (S00600)
2016-03-06 Bright aurora on night 2016-03-06 / 2016-03-07
2016-03-29 NE Scotland Bollide 2016-02-29
2009-03-09 First Light 12" LX200 +ST-10XME
    
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