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Amateur Astronomy in Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes Deaf Astronomical Society aims to provide a forum for the discussion
throughout the years, we have helped many to gain and grow an interest in Astronomy.
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2006
Programme
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Sunday 26th March – Monday 3rd April 2006
Total Solar Eclipse at Turkey
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Oversea to Turkey
for Total Solar Eclipse
(Organised by British Deaf Astronomical Association)
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- Total Solar Eclipse on Wednesday 29th March 2006
o - Fly from Gatwick to Antalya, Turkey
o - Outbound on Sunday 26th March / Inbound on Monday 3rd April 2006
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Thursday 27th April 2006 – 7pm
Observing the night sky
- Spot the International Space Station (ISS)
o - To be seen a comet 73P Schwassmann-Wachmann
o - Observing the two planets to be seen – Mars & Saturn
o - Meet us at 7pm at Emberton County Park, Emberton, near Olney, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
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Thursday 29th June 2006 – 7pm
Observing the Furthest planet – Pluto & deep sky objects
- Spot the Pluto
o - Observing the Deep Sky Objects
o - Meet us at 7pm at Emberton County Park, Emberton, near Olney, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
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Monday 18th September till Monday 25th September 2006
Autumn Sky Camp at North Norfolk
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- Running Trip to the Sky Camp at Kelling Heath, Holt, Norfolk with British Deaf Astronomical Association.
o - Venue: Kelling Heath, Weybourne, Holt, North Norfolk, NR25 7HW. (map)
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(See report & photos)
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Public Open Evenings
Everyone is welcome!
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The MKDAS Observatory is located at
Emberton County Park, Emberton, near Olney,
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
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Find us on the A509 and meet us at the reception – 7pm.
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Please text us if you are coming on
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Autumn Sky Camp at North Norfolk (Friday 18th September – Sunday 24th September 2006)
Autumn Sky Camp at North Norfolk (Friday 18th September – Sunday 24th September 2006)
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Visited the British Deaf Astronomical Association for the Autumn Sky Camp at Kelling Heath, Weybourne, North Norfolk for one week instead of a weekend and also celebrated BDAA’s 5th Anniversary too.
Much better to stay for one week to give us more exploring the night skies and worked together to understand about astronomy, plus feeling more holiday as we had balanced to enjoy between astronomy and outings surrounding around the North Coast Coast as feeling relax holiday.
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Preparing to make a note for observing the deep sky objects.
Browsing the seaside town of Cromer to follow eating some fish & chips.
Telescopes displayed belonged to MKDAS and other members from MKDAS and other regions area from the UK to sharing the deaf people at Kelling Heath, North Norfolk.
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We found it great experience and will be continuing for a one week now on, next year will be one week between Monday 10th September and Monday 17th September 2007.
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Observing the Pluto & Deep Sky Objects (Thursday 29th June 2006)
Observing the Pluto & Deep Sky Objects (Thursday 29th June 2006)
It was a good night with a good number of deaf astronomical again (myself, Don Andrews, Graham Cripps, David Utting, David Kettle, Jack Varnham, Barbara Browns, Leroy Taylor, Adrian Millers and Vinnie Dunstan).
We tried to be challenging to spot the Pluto – it was so slight white spot, we all were not sure to confirm as we have a Star Atlas which was not enough shown numbers of the stars for the star hopping to be matched. We believe what we saw the Pluto there through a telescope but not sure to be positive, it’s a Pluto.
Other objects we saw some Messier objects such as M3, M5, M13 and M31, and we learnt to understand recognise the name of constellations.
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Observing the Night skies (Thursday 27th April 2006)
Observing the Night skies (Thursday 27th April 2006)
It was a good night with a good number of deaf astronomical (myself, Don Andrews, Graham Cripps, David Utting, David & Rita Kettle, Jack Varnham, Barbara Browns), we all saw the rising of the International Space Station which was so shining brightest white dot across the clear skies from the west horizon to the east horizon.
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Saturn’s satellites – Titan
Spotted the Comet 73P Schwassmann-Wachmann in the constellation of Corona Borealis (The Northern Cross) and the Saturn’s moon – Titan with a planet Saturn. The Mars was a brilliant orange planet in the telescope view.
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Total Solar Eclipse in Turkey (Sunday 26th March – Monday 2nd April 2006)
Total Solar Eclipse in Turkey (Sunday 26th March – Monday 2nd April 2006)
18 members of British Deaf Astronomical Association
at Turkey for 2006 Total Solar Eclipse
(Photo: Kevin Robinson)
The British Deaf Astronomical Association was the first time ever to organise the oversea to Turkey for Total Solar Eclipse which occurred on Wednesday 29th March 2006. The trip was arranged by Michael & Patti Down from Swindon, they brought 18 people went to Turkey for one week from Saturday 26th March till Monday 2nd April 2006, our plane left Gatwick airport to Antalya where we stayed at the hotel in Antalya.
On Wednesday 29th March, the rep from our hotel had arranged us to the base of Taurus mountain on a high plateau, just north of Manavgat, where the central line path of Total Solar Eclipse to be seen. We were looked over the field, town of Manavgat and in the distance Mediterranean sea.
We saw the shadow marked from the eclipse moving on the ground toward us, it was coming from the Egypt, it was started from Brazil, moving passed Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Libya and a small part of north-west Egypt then here and gone to over Georgia, Kazakhstan, south central Russia and Mongolia.
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Seven of us from MKDAS went!
Kevin’s T-Shirt as his memory gift.
With an important special solar filter
on Derek’s Binocular to observe the eclipsed.
Getting the darken sky,
it’s a time for a Total Solar Eclipse.
The temperature was big dropped,
we felt chilled cold.
Photo by Kevin Robinson
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Observing……
Beginning….
- First Contact – the moon moved a tiny bite taken from the sun disk at 12:39pm (Turkish Time), and it took 1 hour and 7 minutes for the Moon to complete cover the sun disk.
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The Baily’s beads, diamond ring effects
- 15 minutes before totality – the sun became quite a thin crescent, and able to see the Bailey’s Beads because it was due to the sunlight passing through the valleys of the Moon limb.
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Diamond Ring!
(Photo by Kevin Robinson)
- Diamond Ring – we witnessed the ‘Diamond Ring’, really gasped of amazement with no doubt to know as the last fragment of sunlight was snuffed out!
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Corona
(Photo by Kevin Robinson)
- Totality – Increasing to see many birds flown in different directions as confused in the skies, behaved differently abnormally as it might even think that the sky was a night time. The Sun was a black disk in the sky surrounded by glorious streamers know as corona which can only be seen directly during a total eclipse as this part of the sun is much fainter than the photosphere.
o - Definitely, this sight that we will never forgot!, it was now safe to remove the protective filters to observe directly with the naked-eye, binoculars or telescopes, however to put the filter back before the raw sunlight will re-appear quickly.
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Mercury & Venus visible!
- Mercury & Venus – We saw the two white shining white dots on the right away from the during the eclipse as an orange sky was dark enough to see those two planets visible.
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Corona – disappeared!
- Bailey’s Bead – as suddenly as it begun the eastern limb of the Moon uncovered the sun disk as totality has ended. The corona rapidly disappeared and the Moon’s shadow could see speeding rapidly eastwards, and the Moon took a further hour to completely uncover the sun disk at 15:14pm (Turkish Time).
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- Diagram some notes from observed the eclipsed – see below.
(If you wrote your notes that you could looked back for your memories, what you did in the past events.)
At the moment of my best memories!
As totality approached during a total solar eclipse, the solar corona formed a faint ring around the Moon. Meanwhile, the crescent Sun shrunk to a single, dazzling jewel of sunlight, and saw seven of them – Bailey’s Bead together too – one of the my best even seen in my astronomy time. (BSL)
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Report & photos
- Autumn Sky Camp at North Norfolk (Friday 18th September – Sunday 24th September 2006)
- Observing the Pluto & Deep Sky Objects (Thursday 29th June 2006)
- Observing the Night skies (Thursday 27th April 2006)
- Total Solar Eclipse in Turkey (Sunday 26th March – Monday 2nd April 2006)
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