Astronomical Society of Edinburgh
@astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social
We love sharing our passion for astronomy. We've been holding meetings in Edinburgh since 1924. Come to one of our meetings, in person or online - visitors are always welcome.
#astronomyedinburgh #edinburgh #scotland
www.astronomyedinburgh.org
#astronomyedinburgh #edinburgh #scotland
www.astronomyedinburgh.org
A time-lapse of a typical night observing with our remote telescope in Spain: ASERO. On an average night we observe 6 variable stars, a couple of comets and a chosen deep sky object - all selected by our members. 🔭☄️
Sometimes we do live observing, always fun!
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Sometimes we do live observing, always fun!
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ASERO Timelapse
YouTube video by Astronomical Society of Edinburgh
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November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A time-lapse of a typical night observing with our remote telescope in Spain: ASERO. On an average night we observe 6 variable stars, a couple of comets and a chosen deep sky object - all selected by our members. 🔭☄️
Sometimes we do live observing, always fun!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n5F...
Sometimes we do live observing, always fun!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n5F...
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Sh2-173, or the Phantom of the Opera Nebula, imaged with @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social remote 12" Murrell Newtonian 🔭 at #Trevinca in Spain. RGB stars with Ha for the nebula. #astrophotography
October 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Sh2-173, or the Phantom of the Opera Nebula, imaged with @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social remote 12" Murrell Newtonian 🔭 at #Trevinca in Spain. RGB stars with Ha for the nebula. #astrophotography
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Me and my good pal Andrew from @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social gatecrashed a local #supermoon gathering last night with his Dobsonian🔭. Minds were blown as we looked at the lunar mare and craters through patchy holes in the cloud cover. Pop-up sidewalk astronomy at its best - loved it!
October 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Me and my good pal Andrew from @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social gatecrashed a local #supermoon gathering last night with his Dobsonian🔭. Minds were blown as we looked at the lunar mare and craters through patchy holes in the cloud cover. Pop-up sidewalk astronomy at its best - loved it!
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A rather misleading headline in the BBC this morning: the UK Space Agency is definitely not being scrapped!
#UKSA will change from being an exec agency of, to a unit within, the Dept of Science, Innovation & Tech, reducing UKGov red tape. Thoughts?🧪🔭🛰️
ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#UKSA will change from being an exec agency of, to a unit within, the Dept of Science, Innovation & Tech, reducing UKGov red tape. Thoughts?🧪🔭🛰️
ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK independent space agency scrapped to cut costs
Britain's space agency is set to be scrapped - a scientist fears the UK space sector could fall behind as a result
www.bbc.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 6:07 AM
A rather misleading headline in the BBC this morning: the UK Space Agency is definitely not being scrapped!
#UKSA will change from being an exec agency of, to a unit within, the Dept of Science, Innovation & Tech, reducing UKGov red tape. Thoughts?🧪🔭🛰️
ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#UKSA will change from being an exec agency of, to a unit within, the Dept of Science, Innovation & Tech, reducing UKGov red tape. Thoughts?🧪🔭🛰️
ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We managed to capture the close approach of Venus and Jupiter yesterday morning when they were just 51' apart, using our wide-field telescope in Spain. You can just make out 3 of the Jovian satellites.🔭
August 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
We managed to capture the close approach of Venus and Jupiter yesterday morning when they were just 51' apart, using our wide-field telescope in Spain. You can just make out 3 of the Jovian satellites.🔭
Timelapse of a night with the Perseids. 169 captured with this NW facing camera on the edge of Edinburgh last night.
globalmeteornetwork.org/weblog//UK/U... 🔭
globalmeteornetwork.org/weblog//UK/U... 🔭
August 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Timelapse of a night with the Perseids. 169 captured with this NW facing camera on the edge of Edinburgh last night.
globalmeteornetwork.org/weblog//UK/U... 🔭
globalmeteornetwork.org/weblog//UK/U... 🔭
One of the things we like to do is monitor variable stars. While everyone is waiting for T CrB to go "pop" we watch SU UMa, another dwarf nova that behaves similarly - just far more often and fainter. We caught the latest super-outburst. Our data in blue. 🔭
July 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
One of the things we like to do is monitor variable stars. While everyone is waiting for T CrB to go "pop" we watch SU UMa, another dwarf nova that behaves similarly - just far more often and fainter. We caught the latest super-outburst. Our data in blue. 🔭
Supernovae are amazing! One star outshining all the others in a galaxy - sometimes even the whole galaxy. 🔭
We imaged NGC 7331 in 2024 with our @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social remote 12" Murrell Newtonian 🔭 at #Trevinca in Spain. Last night we took some further images to catch current SN Ia 2025rbx, clearly visible at 2 o'clock from the galaxy centre in the right hand image. #astrophotography
July 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Supernovae are amazing! One star outshining all the others in a galaxy - sometimes even the whole galaxy. 🔭
One of our meteor cameras on the edge of Edinburgh caught the bright fireball reported by many and in the News last night. So bright it saturated the sensor in the next frame. ☄️🔭
July 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
One of our meteor cameras on the edge of Edinburgh caught the bright fireball reported by many and in the News last night. So bright it saturated the sensor in the next frame. ☄️🔭
If in Edinburgh and look to the NE you can see a really nice display of Noctilucent Clouds. Mesospheric clouds of ice crystals, possibly formed on cosmic dust, so high up at 80km that they are still in sunlight even though normal, lower clouds have now gone grey. 🔭
Beautiful and ethereal!
Beautiful and ethereal!
June 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
If in Edinburgh and look to the NE you can see a really nice display of Noctilucent Clouds. Mesospheric clouds of ice crystals, possibly formed on cosmic dust, so high up at 80km that they are still in sunlight even though normal, lower clouds have now gone grey. 🔭
Beautiful and ethereal!
Beautiful and ethereal!
Although we may be taking a summer break now, astronomy continues and our remote telescope in Spain, ASERO doesn't stop. This image of LDN863 is one of the latest, processed here by ASE member Pat Devine. 🔭
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LDN863
LDN 863 Imaged from the Astronomical Society of Edinburgh's remote telescope facility in Trevinca, Spain, on the evenings of 21/22 and 22/23 June 2025. Equipment: Murrell scope - TS-Optics 12" f...
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June 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Although we may be taking a summer break now, astronomy continues and our remote telescope in Spain, ASERO doesn't stop. This image of LDN863 is one of the latest, processed here by ASE member Pat Devine. 🔭
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Our Sky Diary for Scotland (Edinburgh) in July 2025 is out now 🔭
www.astronomyedinburgh.org/2025/06/26/s...
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Sky Diary July 2025 - Astronomical Society of Edinburgh
Summer Triangle, Titan shadow transits, morning Venus, noctilucent clouds and twilight
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June 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Our Sky Diary for Scotland (Edinburgh) in July 2025 is out now 🔭
www.astronomyedinburgh.org/2025/06/26/s...
www.astronomyedinburgh.org/2025/06/26/s...
Coming soon to a planet near you 🔭
June 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Coming soon to a planet near you 🔭
Not to be missed if you're anywhere near #Edinburgh 🔭
We'll be there.
We'll be there.
🔊Calling #Edinburgh! One of the world's largest telescopes twinned with the world's biggest camera is about to embark on a 10yr mission to survey the Universe! Join us in Dynamic Earth's Planetarium as we unveil the 1st Rubin images🥳🔭🏴
🗓️: 23rd Jun@15:30-17:00
£5🎟️ dynamicearth.org.uk/event/rubin-...
🗓️: 23rd Jun@15:30-17:00
£5🎟️ dynamicearth.org.uk/event/rubin-...
We are T–10 days from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's First Look! 🚨
This reveal of Rubin's first images is just a preview of what's to come as Rubin prepares to #CaptureTheCosmos for the next ten years! 🔭🧪
Here are 6 things you need to know before the big day🎬
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This reveal of Rubin's first images is just a preview of what's to come as Rubin prepares to #CaptureTheCosmos for the next ten years! 🔭🧪
Here are 6 things you need to know before the big day🎬
🧵
June 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Not to be missed if you're anywhere near #Edinburgh 🔭
We'll be there.
We'll be there.
Such a good project to get schools involved with. Now back for its 6th year. A project we support and definitely approve of. 🔭
We are back with our HOYS-LCO program for next Winter (2025/26). If you want to get your pupils involved apply now on the website: hoys.space/lco-project/
Please share this if you have any teacher contacts that might be interested. 🔭
Please share this if you have any teacher contacts that might be interested. 🔭
LCO PROJECT - HOYS Citizen Science
LCO PROJECT YEAR 6
Our project as a Global Sky Partner of Las Cumbres Observatory, this time for school teachers and their students. Join and gather data using these telescopes for the HOYS project...
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June 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Such a good project to get schools involved with. Now back for its 6th year. A project we support and definitely approve of. 🔭
The power of combining data with your friends. Makes the Seestar S50 a much more capable device. 🔭
Another collaborative #Seestar S50 🔭 imaging exercise from @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social members me, Pat Devine, Ramsay McIver, Larry Cable. 7.95 hours from 4 Seestars on M27, the Dumbbell Nebula in Vulpecula. #astrophotography
June 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The power of combining data with your friends. Makes the Seestar S50 a much more capable device. 🔭
A fun listen. Not to be missed 🔭
🔊New post-nominal alert:
Prof. Catherine Heymans FLS 😊
Dark Matter; Dark Energy; Galaxies; #Cosmology; Comedy; the Hubble, Rubin and Euclid Telescopes; #SciComm; Long Covid; Virtual Realities; @jimalkhalili.bsky.social and I talked about it all!
📻: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🔭🧪👩🔬
Prof. Catherine Heymans FLS 😊
Dark Matter; Dark Energy; Galaxies; #Cosmology; Comedy; the Hubble, Rubin and Euclid Telescopes; #SciComm; Long Covid; Virtual Realities; @jimalkhalili.bsky.social and I talked about it all!
📻: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🔭🧪👩🔬
June 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A fun listen. Not to be missed 🔭
If you're going to be in Scotland this October and interested in comets and meteors, we are hosting the joint BAA Comet and Meteor sections meeting on 4 October 2025 in Edinburgh. Open to anyone interested. Tickets still available.🔭
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BAA Comet and meteor section meeting - Astronomical Society of Edinburgh
The Astronomical Society of Edinburgh is hosting the joint BAA Comet and Meteor Section meeting in Edinburgh, a few minutes’ walk from Waverley Station, on Saturday, 2025 October 4. There […]
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May 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
If you're going to be in Scotland this October and interested in comets and meteors, we are hosting the joint BAA Comet and Meteor sections meeting on 4 October 2025 in Edinburgh. Open to anyone interested. Tickets still available.🔭
www.astronomyedinburgh.org/event/baa-co...
www.astronomyedinburgh.org/event/baa-co...
As astro-dark comes to an end here in Edinburgh until August, we like to encourage our members to keep observing through the summer. There's still lots to be done. For example, you can image the Moon with the Sun still high in the sky. Maybe use a red, Ha or IR filter. This was taken at 15:24 UT 🔭
May 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
As astro-dark comes to an end here in Edinburgh until August, we like to encourage our members to keep observing through the summer. There's still lots to be done. For example, you can image the Moon with the Sun still high in the sky. Maybe use a red, Ha or IR filter. This was taken at 15:24 UT 🔭
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Sun imaged this morning from Edinburgh in white light (Seestar 🔭) and h-alpha (coronado solar 🔭). #solar #astrophotography
May 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Sun imaged this morning from Edinburgh in white light (Seestar 🔭) and h-alpha (coronado solar 🔭). #solar #astrophotography
Watch out for this tonight if you get clear skies. 🔭
On 3 May, Mars and the Moon will make a visit to the Beehive, the open cluster M44, also known as Praesepe. They will be within 2° of each other. Could make a nice image if you can get the exposure correct since the Moon will be the brightest by far.🔭
May 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Watch out for this tonight if you get clear skies. 🔭
Our telescope in Spain, ASERO, has been imaging some Peculiar Galaxies. Arp 104 also known as Keenan's System consists of two galaxies joined by a bridge of material spanning around 22,000 light years. It's just so hard to let go sometimes... 😍
Discovered by the amazing William Herschel in 1790 🔭
Discovered by the amazing William Herschel in 1790 🔭
May 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Our telescope in Spain, ASERO, has been imaging some Peculiar Galaxies. Arp 104 also known as Keenan's System consists of two galaxies joined by a bridge of material spanning around 22,000 light years. It's just so hard to let go sometimes... 😍
Discovered by the amazing William Herschel in 1790 🔭
Discovered by the amazing William Herschel in 1790 🔭
On 3 May, Mars and the Moon will make a visit to the Beehive, the open cluster M44, also known as Praesepe. They will be within 2° of each other. Could make a nice image if you can get the exposure correct since the Moon will be the brightest by far.🔭
May 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
On 3 May, Mars and the Moon will make a visit to the Beehive, the open cluster M44, also known as Praesepe. They will be within 2° of each other. Could make a nice image if you can get the exposure correct since the Moon will be the brightest by far.🔭
Antennae Galaxies taken using our telescope in Spain. Weather has been pretty bad there recently, better in Edinburgh even 😏🔭
April 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Antennae Galaxies taken using our telescope in Spain. Weather has been pretty bad there recently, better in Edinburgh even 😏🔭
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Here is asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson as seen by Lucy’s LORRI camera! It’s a contact binary/bi-lobate asteroid 🎉🎊
Image taken on April 20, 2025 from a range of approximately 1100 km.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab
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#PlanetSci #SciComm 🧪
Image taken on April 20, 2025 from a range of approximately 1100 km.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab
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#PlanetSci #SciComm 🧪
April 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Here is asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson as seen by Lucy’s LORRI camera! It’s a contact binary/bi-lobate asteroid 🎉🎊
Image taken on April 20, 2025 from a range of approximately 1100 km.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab
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#PlanetSci #SciComm 🧪
Image taken on April 20, 2025 from a range of approximately 1100 km.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
#PlanetSci #SciComm 🧪