David Arditti

Observer and imager from light-polluted Outer London. Telescope and observatory enthusiast. My main current interest is imaging the Moon and planets in high-resolution, but I also dabble in solar, cometary and asteroid work, and take deep-sky images as well. My main telescopes are a Celestron C-14, a C-11 fitted with a Hyperstar imaging system, and a 245mm Newtonian. I use several smaller telescopes as well, including a Lunt LS60 double-stacked H alpha telescope, and a 100mm refractor that I do much public outreach work with, taking it in a trolley around London on buses and tube trains. The other telescopes are housed in three observatory sheds I have constructed. I wrote a book entitled Setting-up a Small Observatory, in Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series (Springer). I often contribute also to Astronomy Now magazine. I give talks, mostly around practical amateur astronomy, but also sometimes on historical and cosmological subjects. I have been on the Board of Trustees and Council of the BAA at various times since 2005. In 2021 I was elected President. I currently combine that with directorship of the Equipment & Techniques Section, and I am also Chair of the Sir Patrick Moore Prize Committee and of the BAA Strategy Group, and on the committee of the Jupiter Section. I am also a Vice-President of, and Observations Director for, the West of London Astronomical Society.

Local societies
West of London Astronomical Society (WOLAS)