misc gallery

	26th October 2007 - "Grand Opening" of the "Stargate Observatory". The Chairman of YAS, Dr John Lockett, cut the ribbon and declares Paul Buglass' newly completed observatory well and truly open. The observatory is a 9 foot dome housing a Celestron 14" SCT mounted on a computerised equatorial fork mount.
	13th October 2007 - Martin Dawson attended Astrographica in London, and meet Apollo astronaut and Moon walker Eugene Cernan.
	7th September 2006 - Martin Whipp captured this 30 second image of Iridium Satellite 37 making a flare of Magnitude -6 at 10:46pm and 47 seconds. Due to the low elevation and slow change in angle between our obserivng point and the satellite itself, the flare was a very long one, building slowly to its peak brightness, and then slowly fading again.
	1st July 2006 - The new YAS Observatory now has a door. Many thanks go to Andy L for his expertise and hard work, and thanks to the others who not only helped with the door, but also cleared up more of the pad hardstanding are too. Well done all.
	9th June 2006 - While observing the Moon and Jupiter we noticed a nice display of Noctilucent Clouds at around midnight in the northern sky. Martin Whipp managed to capture some images and built up this panorama.
	9th June 2006 - Martin Whipp took this atmospheric image of the evening Sun setting behind a windsock.
	2nd June 2006 - John Roberts was filling his car up at Tesco near Askam Bar, and saw this splendid cloud formation. His camera was at hand to capture it in all it's freaky glory, and yes, that is a Sun pillar at the very left.
	19th May 2006 - The YAS meeting held this night was a very special one with Dr Allan Chapman talking to us on the subject of "Yorkshire Astronomers - A history". The meeting was well supported with about 85 people in attendance. Dr Chapman is seen here with Martin Whipp (YAS Chairman) and Hazel Collett (YAS meetings director). You can see Dr Chapman holding one of our souvineer YAS Turkey Eclipse "postcards" which we produced after our trip to Turkey in March this year. If you would like one they are just £1, so drop us an e-mail and we'll let you know where to post the cheque, or alternately buy one at our meetings.
	John Roberts says of his new Coronado PST - "It has arrived at last. I scrounged an old theodolite tripod from work and made an extension piece to put on top with the head from my old photo tripod on top of this. It feels really solid. All I need now is some sun to try it out!"
	The famous John Roberts Observatory near Selby. This new observatory was opened with great celebrations late in 2004. There were fireworks, dignitories and lots of food and drink.
	As featured in the January Issue of Astronomy Now. Taken by Neil Ward of the York AS. The Astronomy Centre Observatory at Todmorden, taken on 12 August 2004 using a Nikon D70 digital SLR, aperture f 3.5, focal length 18mm, exposure 15 seconds. © NJA Ward 2004. All Rights Reserved.
	The Aurora in November 2004 taken by John Roberts using a 20 second exposure with conventional 35mm film.