STS-125, Space Shuttle Atlantis launched from Cape Kennedy last Monday 11th May on it's fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.

***Below is a photo of the Moon-Mercury conjunction of 26/4/2009. If you look carefully, you can just see the Pleiades above the Moon. Image details are: ISO 200 at 1/125 sec single shot with a FinePix S5700 digi camera and the time was 9:47pm. No tweaks were applied to the image except reducing file size and adding my name.***

Saturn is slowly slipping from view during May/June as Leo heads west. The Rings will be edge-on in August. I have a couple of recent images of the planet taken through the 14" Meade at the DAS observatory and will publish them in due course! In the meantime, please be content with this old image from 2008!

So enough of my ramblings, look through my site and feel free to drop me an email at: astro@abovethecloud.org.uk

Clear Skies!
John


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