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Taken on 23rd June 2015   with  the Jim Waite Telescope Well done Keith 

First Pictures from the James Waite Telescope Woweeeee

Here's the new home for Jim's pride and joy ......... gosh

 a revolving dome roof wow

inside looks so familiar ha ha

How good is this and just thrilling to receive the following first pictures taken through Jim's scope in its new home with master controller Peter. Here are the results after 3 hours and 32 minutes

                                     Well Done Peter and thank you so so much.

M51 known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, taken with 12 images of 300 seconds. This was also the first image from the Discovery Channel Telescope and the start of Jim's interest in the skies at night  ......

This is M64 taken with 16 images of 300 seconds. This is known as the Black Eye Galaxy, first discovered in April of 1779



This is M94, 14 images of 300 seconds 

M 100 10 images of 300 seconds
55 million light years from Earth in the Virgo cluster
WOW

Once again many thanks to Ann, Keith, Peter and Paul and happy viewing to all who link in to use it

Off to a new home

An email to the Leicester Space Center found a new home for Jim's telescopes so at last it is all going to get the use it deserves and about time too. Waiting for me to find the time and inclination is just not right for such quality precision instruments. And so it is with both sadness and delight that I say goodbye to Jim's Astronomy Stuff as it is dismantled and taken to its new home with a group of avid astronomers in Leicestershire

An empty shed on my terrace, but a new shed awaits the Jim Waite Telescope where it will get plenty of use by Peter, Paul and Keith as well as members of the Leicester Astronomical Society and the Rostiston Astronomy Group.

Enjoy