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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 – Wednesday 15th July 2026 to Thorpe Marsh NNR 13 July 2026
  • Next Meeting – Saturday July 4th, 2026 at Denaby Delf 30 June 2026
  • Next Meeting – Friday 26 June 2026 to Brockadale 22 June 2026
  • Next Meeting – Wednesday 17th June 2026 at Mount Pleasant Hotel on Bawtry Rd. 12 June 2026
  • Next Meeting – Wednesday 3rd June 2026 Carolina Heath, Lakeside, Doncaster 29 May 2026

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IMG_6173, Mosaic Reserve, Austerfield. Aphrophora alni - Alder Spittlebug, Treswell Wood

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Clustered Bellflower (Campanula glomerata), Brockadale. Sweet Vernal grass (Anthoxathum odoratum), Old Moor Aceria centaurea on Greater Knapweed, Edenthorpe, Doncaster (upper and under surface of leaf) Common flesh Fly,Sarcophaga carnaria, 3.9.23, Thorne Rd, SE605055 on Ivy by Nora Boyle Ptychoptera albimana, Loversall Delf, Potteric Carr. © Les Coe Hoverfly - Cheilosia sp., Potteric Carr (13/6/26). Dioctria baumhaueri, Thorne Moor Bena bicolorana - Scarce Silver-lines, Austerfield. Volucella pellucens, Great Pied Hoverfly, Hartlebury, Common, Worcs. Melanostoma scalare, Gamston Wood, Notts
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