WythenshaweStarGazers

We Are A Community Group Dedicated To Star Gazing. Star Gazing Nights, Education, Grassroots, All For FREE!
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Stargazing WIN! 🔭 The clouds parted for 1st Wythenshawe Cubs!
Projected Saturn onto the Baptist Church! 🤯
Hit Saturn 35 times for nearly 30 eager Scouts!
Taught them how to use binoculars/scopes.
Spotted Satellites & captured Andromeda!
Indoor session with real Moon/Mars Rock

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Venus Visible Now in the West (Look for sunset and you'll see it)
🛰️Space Station due at 23:08pm

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Tonight's Moon!

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Moon and Regulus Star (Leo) In Conjunction
If you pop out now, you see them both together

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Join Wythenshawe Star Gazers for our FIRST-EVER Spring Session this Friday at Wythenshawe Park Bowling Green (5-7 PM)! See the Sun safely on a tablet, maybe a daytime Moon, and all the space chat you can handle. Casual pop-up, no booking – just drop by!

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Right now

Moon
Venus
Seven Sisters

Use your Smartphone for it

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Jupiter 🟤
Venus ⚪
Now Visible

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Thank you @BBCRadioManc For Having us on This Morning Talking about Star Gazing. Much appreciated!

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The Moon and Regulus Star Conjunction
Joined by a Satellite whizzing by

Nice little capture tonight

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I did a little Timelaspe of the passing clouds just now, why not give it ago with your phone

✅Pop your phone on a tripod
✅Aim it at the clouds
✅Select Timelaspe

Tonight watch out for Venus around 7pm - 8pm

A Great Moon just now (88% Full)
Jupiter amongst others

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Clear skies tonight! 🌌 Here’s your celestial lineup:
🌄 6:00pm: Sunset
🛰️ 6:51pm: ISS (Look SW)
⚪ 6-7pm: Venus
From 7pm:
🪐 Jupiter & Orion
✨ Sirius, Rigel, Arcturus, & Capella
🛰️ 8:27pm: ISS (Look W)

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I had the Pleasure of Doing a Star Gazing Workshop last night for @MileShyClub Mental Health Support Group for indoor session. Loved the Pizza and Loved the Company thank you Jane!

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Lovely evening Tonight
Tonight's Target is The Brightest Star In the Night Sky which is 🔵⭐Sirius⭐🔵

To spot it with your eyes
Pop out now

Look for Orion's Belt ( 3 stars in a row )
And then look done to spot it

Can you spot it? Share your pictures below

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Google Pixel 8 Pro (on a Tripod)

✅Phone on a Tripod
✅Open Camera
✅Select Nightsight
✅Press the stars on the screen until it's focuses
✅Take a 5 second Picture

Other Phones
✅Phone on Tripod
✅Open Camera
✅ Picture Orion

Try it home

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If you go out now, look for the Orion's Belt (3 ⭐⭐⭐) in a row. Then look carefully for where the arrow is pointing. You'll see a real Life Nebula with your eyes ( A Gas Cloud)

Use your phone to take a picture

Let me know if you see it!

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The 🐺Wolf Moon🐺
Testing out The 8 inch Dobsonian using Mobile Attached to a little video of The Moon.

The Amount of Detail is Eye Catching.

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Happy 3rd Birthday to us! 🎂✨
Wishing our entire community, group, and all our fellow astronomy friends a very Merry Christmas for tomorrow! 🔭🌌
🎅 For the kids: Keep an eye on the sky at 6:17 AM on Christmas morning! Santa’s sleigh will be visible (weather permitting)

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Parents!
Christmas Day 🎅
06:17am (Look West to South West) 🛰️
Santa's Sleigh 😉(Space Station) will be visible over the UK
Santa's Heading Home!

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If you pop out now!

Can you Spot these with your eyes 👀

Give yourself 5 mins to adjust and 20 mins you'll definitely see them together

🐂Taurus
🌌Pleiades
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What a way to end 2025! 🌌 Our final star gazing night at Gatley Hill was magic. Despite a brief cloud cover, we saw Jupiter, Saturn, the Seven Sisters, and Orion! 🔭

Huge thanks to Alan—his Newtonian telescope views were breathtaking. That’s a wrap for our 2025 events! ✨