Welcome to Simon's Astronomy Page

This page is devoted to intermediate and advanced amateur astronomy, especially comet and variable star observing. Simple text format makes for fast loading- giving my fellow 3rd worlders a chance!
Last modified: Jan 2007

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Spare a thought or a prayer for Zimbabwe

Harare Centre of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa

Brief text files by/compiled by the author

• A quick collimation guide for long- focus Newtonian telescopes
• Polar alignment by star-drift method - Sky and Telescope's Alan MacRobert.
• Some light pollution references and useful quotes- a compilation

Good Astronomy Pages

• My comet pages
• My visual variable star observing pages

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• Bradford robotic telescope
• Digitised Sky Survey including POSS
• The Astrophysical Journal
• Astronomy Magazine
• Sky & Telescope Magazine
• South African Astronomical Observatory
• Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
• Rhodes University Astronomy and Ham Radio Society

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Simon Walsh
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