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	Interesting shot of the Sun, showing several groups of sunspots that are present, January 2024 Taken using a Seestar S50 camera (Seestar is one of the new type of digital camera-telescope) Photo : Dave Starling


	Annular Solar Eclipse, 14 October 2023 Taken from New Mexico, USA Upper left : setting up Upper right : the Moon just after first encounter Middle left : the eclipse just approaching maximum using the projection method Middle right : direct through the camera, using solar filters Left : the location was appropriately Los Lunas, around 12 miles south of Albuquerque, NM Photos : Mat Irvine

	Top left - The Orion Nebula Top right - The Andromeda Galaxy Left - The Cygnus Wall Photos : Keith Pritchard Some amazing shots using the Stellina telescope
Comet NEOWISE July 2020 Photo : Mat Irvine
	Moon, Mercury and Venus 24 May 2020 Photo : Mat Irvine
Lunar Eclipse 27th July 2018 - just as totality ends, the shadow of the Earth can be seen to be just leaving on the left As seen from Greece Photo : Jim Webb
	Lunar Eclipse 27th July 2018 with Mars lower right as seen from Cyprus Photo : Kyri Voskou
A 3-day old Moon and a very low down Venus 19th March 2018 photo : Mat Irvine
BELOW : Wednesday 31st January 2018 saw the Full Moon achieving three things! 1) It was a Supermoon in that it is at perigee, its closest approach to the Earth 2) It was a 'Blue Moon' in that it is the second Full Moon in a calendar month 3) It was in eclipse - BUT visible only from western North America, some parts of Asia and Australasia The Moon appeared about 14% larger, and 30% brighter, but this is only relative, and it's difficult to really spot any differences
	LUNAR ECLIPSE same time as the Supermoon, 31st January 2018 photographed from San Francisco, California photo : Jim Webb, via a cell phone camera

SUPERMOONS : January 2018 right : as of the beginning of the month top left and right : as of the end photos : Mat Irvine
	THE MOON photo : Wayne Johnson
A STRANGE VIEW OF THE SUN during most of Monday 16th October 2017 - due to the weather. The reddish tinge was due to dust whipped up by (the remains of) Hurricane Ophelia hitting the British Isles, possibly added to by the fires in Portugal. It looked more like the Moon during a Lunar eclipse! photo : Mat Irvine

	TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE 21st August 2017 as shot from the United States Above left from Illinois : Apostolos Filis Above right and left from Nebraska : Mat Irvine For more details see the Sept/Oct 2017 issue of 2002
PLIEADES CLUSTER [seen top right] 3rd February 2017 photo : Apostolos Filis
	MOON and VENUS Conjunction of the young crescent Moon and Venus 3rd December 2016 photo: Mat Irvine

TRANSIT of MERCURY : 9th May 2016 Above left - image taken at 15.07hrs. Mercury is the small dot lower left. A large sunpot group can be seen centre right. photo : Mat Irvine, taken by the projection method (right) Above right, image taken at 13.37hrs (time stamp is UTC), Mercury can just be made out around the 9 o'clock position photo : Dave Starling taken through a 135mm lens with Sun filters
	Venus (the brighter) and Jupiter as photographed 1st July 2015, one day past their closest approach. photo : Jim Webb
Venus, the lower and brighter, and Jupiter at their closest approach 30th June 2015. At this point they are about 20 arc minutes apart, which 1/3 degree, and to give some indication of scale, the full Moon is 1/2 degree in dimameter. photo : Mat Irvine
	Jupiter and Venus, forming a triangle with the crescent Moon on 20th June 2015 photo : Dave Starling
The Moon photographed using the camera in a cell phone photo : Jim Webb
	Maximium Partial Solar Eclipse as seen from the UK 20th March 2015 photo : Tony Goddard
Almost midway for the Annular Eclipse of the Sun, May 2012 This was taken in Arizona 18.35 20th May 2012, local time, which was 02.35 21st UTC photo : Mat Irvine For more details see the June 2012 issue of 2002
	Above : the final stages of the 2012 Transit of Venus from the UK, 6th June. 05.35 BST (04.35 UT) Venus is just visible as a small dot at about the 1 o'clock position photo : Mat Irvine For more details see the June 2012 issue of 2002
Right: How to view the Sun safely - the projection method, here following the progress of the Total Solar Eclipse of 2006, taken from Turkey. A 2in / 50mm refractor used to project the image onto a screen. Below: Totality - the photo on the right shows why this part is called 'The Diamond Ring Effect'! photos : Mat Irvine

	COMET HALE BOPP photographed in 1997 photo : Mat Irvine

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