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Recording Doncaster's Wildlife since 1880

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Ben Burrell Photos – Astronomy

6 inch Reflector Telescope
6 and half inch Reflector with Astrographic Camera
Astrographic Camera
Shutter details (closed)
Equatorial Head device
Equatorial Head device
Copying Stand
Sunspots
Ben Burrell observing with his 22cm reflector from his home in Doncaster (1930s) from McKim: Barker’s Circle: a 1930s BAA lunar observing group

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Recent Posts

  • Next Meeting – Sunday May 3rd 2026 Dawn Chorus 4.30 am 29 April 2026
  • Next Meeting – Sunday 26th April 2026 to Rossington Colliery Tip 21 April 2026
  • Next Meeting – Monday 20th April 2026 to Broomhill Flash 10:30am 14 April 2026
  • Next Meeting – Thursday 8 April 2026 to Owston at 1.30 pm 7 April 2026
  • Next Meeting – Friday 3rd April 2026 at 6.30pm Thorpe Marsh nature reserve. 1 April 2026

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Anne Hathaway's Garden, Stratford on Avon (12 May 1961). Tritomegas bicolor - Pied Shieldbug, Austerfield

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Lesser Celandine - Ficaria verna. White Campion-Silene latifolia No. 7 Not named Bee Box Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis - The Goblet, Clumber Park NT, Notts. Yellow Hammer, Thrybergh CP. Cauchas rufimitrella, Austerfield. Gannet - Morus bassanus, RSPB Bempton Cliffs. Sehirus luctuosus - Forget-me-Not Shieldbug, Austerfield. Hamearis lucina - Duke of Burgundy, N. Yorks.
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