IAU
480
Martin Mobberley's Astronomical Images
+52 09' 59" N. 00 46' 24" E.
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COCKFIELD OBSERVATORY
The English village of Cockfield, in Suffolk, is home to a numbered IAU facility (International Astronomical Union Observatory 480) operated by myself: the dedicated UK amateur astronomer and astronomy author Martin Mobberley.
I am a former BAA President and Goodacre medallist. In 1997 the IAU officially named asteroid 7239 as 'Mobberley' in recognition of my services to amateur astronomy.
I have completed 10 astronomy books; 7 for Springer, as well as 3 children's space books. Two of the Springer titles are available in Italian. My 7th Springer book, about the Caldwell Objects, is due out in late 2009.
For details of my research into the astronomy of the comedian Will Hay, who discovered the 1933 white spot on Saturn, please click the link below.
Will Hay research with Ken Goward
My observatory is devoted to obtaining high quality images of an unusually diverse variety of astronomical objects. My prime imaging targets in recent years have been comets, but I also capture supernovae, gamma-ray bursters, novae, asteroids, planets, deep sky objects, unusual variable stars & cataclysmic variables, meteor storms and total solar eclipses!
Some of my results, as a team member of the BAA and TA organisations, have led to mentions on professional IAU circulars.
CCDs and webcams have transformed my hobby from being a tiring battle with the cold and damp and photographic chemicals (in the 1980s) to a truly impressive night-time experience. My Paramount ME/Celestron 14 telescope is shown below. This is primarily used for comet and supernova imaging. Only a tiny fraction of the thousands of images I have taken over the past 30 years are stored here!
All images/text © Martin Mobberley 2008. I am happy for any of my images to be freely used, by other astronomers, as long as I am consulted and the images are credited to me.
Recent Pic - Comet C/2009 R1 (McNaught) - Click on image
LAST UPDATES TO THIS WEBSITE:
2010 July 25th: Added July 11th solar eclipse images. 2010 June 17th: Added 27th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 June 13th: Added 26th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 June 12th: Added 25th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 June 11th: Added 24th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 June 9th: Added 23rd image of C/2009 R1. 2010 June 6th: Added 22nd image of C/2009 R1. 2010 June 5th: Added 21st image of C/2009 R1. 2010 June 4th: Added 20th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 June 3rd: Added 19th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 June 2nd: Added 18th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 June 1st: Added 17th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 31st: Added 16th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 30th: Added 15th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 27th: Added 14th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 26th: Added 13th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 25th: Added 12th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 24th: Added 11th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 23rd: Added 10th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 22nd: Added 9th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 21st: Added 8th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 20th: Added 7th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 19th: Added 6th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 18th: Added 5th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 17th: Added 4th image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 16th: Added 3rd image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 13th: Added 2nd image of C/2009 R1. 2010 May 10th: Added first image of C/2009 R1 (McNaught). 2010 May 9th: Added image of optical transient in Pegasus. 2010 April 27th: Added image of new nova Sco; 2010 April 24th: Added lunar image taken with new 12" Newtonian; 2010 Apr 20th: Added image of new Comet 2010 H2 (Vales); 2010 Apr 5th: Added images of new comet Machholz plus SNe 2010au and 2010bj; 2010 Mar 21st: Added images of SN 2009mf and C/2009 U3 (Hill); 2010 Mar 9th: Added image of KX Aql outburst; 2010 Mar 7th: Added images of P/2010 A2 (LINEAR), C/2009 U3 and SN 2009mf; 2010 Mar 6th: Added images of SNe 2010af and 2009mf; 2010 Mar 4th: Added new comet images (2010 B1, 2009 U3, 30P/31P) and new SN 2009mf image; 2010 Mar 1st: Added new SN 2009mf and C/2009 U3 (Hill) images; 2010 Feb 23rd: Added Nova Sco image; 2010 Feb 20th: Added Nova Ophiuchi image; 2010 Feb 17th: Added more images of C/2009 U3 (Hill) and SN 2009mf; 2010 Feb 14th: Added new images of supernovae 2010ab. 2010Y and 2009mf, plus comet C/2009 U3 (Hill); 2010 Feb 5th: Added new images of SN 2009mf and C/2009 U3 (Hill); 2010 Jan 29th: Added U Sco image to nova page; 2010 Jan 17th: Added images of C/2009 U3 (Hill) and SN 2009mf; 2009 Dec 10th: Added image of SN 2009mf; 2009 Nov 26th: Added image of Eridanus 'nova'. 2009 Nov 9th: Added SN 2009kp image. 2009 Oct 22nd: Added images of SN 2009ka and 22P/Kopff. 2009 Oct 19th: Added images of SN 2009js, plus comets 2008 P1 and 2009 T2. 2009 Oct 18th: Added images of SN 2009jr plus comets 43P and C/2006 W3. 2009 Oct 1st: Added image of BC UMa outburst. 2009 Aug 17: Added image of V1454 Cyg and a new image of 2006 W3 (Christensen). 2009 Jul 31: Added China Total Solar Eclipse images to TSE page. 2009 June 23rd: Added images of 2009 L2 (Yang-Gao) and 2006 W3 (Christensen). 2009 April 25th: New images of comets 2007 N3, 2008 T2 and 2009 F6. 2009 April 20th: Added Saturn image. 2009 April 18th: Image of SN 2009dd plus comets 2007 N3, 2008 T2, 2009 F6. 2009 April 8th: Added first image of 2009 F6 (Yi-SWAN); 2009 April 1st: New 2009 E1 (Itagaki) image. 2009 March 29th: New 2009 E1, 2008 T2 and 2007 N3 images. 2009 March 27th: New 2009 E1, 2008 T2 and 2007 N3 images. 2009 March 20th: New 2007 N3, 2009 E1, 2008 T2 and 17P images. 2009 March 18th: Added new 2009 E1 Itagaki, 2007 N3, 2008 T2 and 2009 DO111 images. 2009 March 14th: Added new Lulin and 2008 T2 Cardinal images. 2009 March 3rd: Added another Lulin image. 2009 March 2nd: Added another Lulin image. 2009 March 1st: Added another Lulin image.
BELOW: My Supernova book, Cataclysmic Cosmic Events book and my latest title, 'The Caldwell Objects & How to Observe Them' (due to be published in October 2009) .
Supernova discoverer Ron Arbour comments on my fourth Springer book 'Supernovae and How to Observe Them':-
"This book is excellent. It provides plenty of information for anyone to start SN patrolling. It contains a wealth of information that has taken patrollers many years to acquire, and sometimes the painful way. I wish that I'd had a copy of this book when I started searching 29 years ago. I could have surpassed Zwicky's record by now."
