Observing the Deep Sky

Owen Brazell

Meeting : 12 July 2007

Owen Brazell has extensive experience as an observer, and is one of the foremost visual practitioners of the deep sky, using his considerable knowledge combined with maps and charts. He has used telescopes from the small to the very large, at his home in Oxfordshire, in Canada, in the USA and in other countries, including at high altitude on Mount Teide. For this evening’s talk he presented an evocative account of the nebulae, clusters and galaxies that can be observed with the naked eye, binoculars, and small and large telescopes – including the principles, design and use of filters.

E-mail : owen@online.rednet.co.uk