Dr Paul Leyland

I'm primarily a VS observer, having started at age 15 or so with delta Cephei, with a subsequent primary interest in cataclysmic variables. More recently I've taken an interest in exoplanet transits, imaging small objects in the outer solar system, the photometry of extra-galactic variable stars, and (to my surprise) imaging globular clusters and especially those not in our galaxy. In the summer of 2018 we bought Tacande Observatory which houses a 40cm Dilworth-Relay telescope. Because the relay lenses in a Dilworth tend to scatter light, albeit not very much, it is not particularly good for observing bright objects. It seems to be particularly good at picking up things below 20th magnitude ...

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Cambridge Astronomical Association