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Contact information
The Crendon Observatory
The Hythe, Lower End, Long Crendon, Aylesbury,
Bucks, HP18 9EF, UK
telephone
01844 208530 fax: 01844 201296
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e-mail
grogers@psa-online.com
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website
www.gordonrogers.co.uk
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Locator
Map
http://www.frappr.com/apppublic
Level of accuracy: town of Aylesbury, England
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Biography and astronomy tale
I am Gordon Rogers FRICS, FRAS, of the Crendon
Observatory, Near Oxford. My interest in Astronomy was catapulted forward
on the night of the 13th June 1994 when, through my small Zeiss refractor,
I saw an event at the moon: probably a strike by an asteroid fragmented
into three parts. There were three white clouds, each about 100 miles wide
and one of them had a milk chocolate coloured stem issuing from a small
crater and dissipating into a white cloud. The terminator was at 30
degrees and the crater was just on the illuminated side: possibly Santbech
I made sure that witnesses saw the event and set about trying to find a
lunar astronomer. In all I made sixteen telephone calls and on the last of
four to Hawaii I found one, Kevin Polk. He was clouded out that night!
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I have done some pretty stupid things in my life: if you want to read
about some of them
go to:
www.gordonrogers.co.uk
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Areas of astrophotography interest
general
Astrophotography publications
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My images have been used in various locations
including the BBC Space website and in publications by Sir Patrick Moore,
Martin Mobberley, Gerald North, Astronomy Now, Philips and others. An
edition of The Sky at Night was filmed here shortly after the opening
ceremony in the year 2000. I call my observatory a true Millenium Dome
Observing site
The Crendon Observatory, United Kingdom
Astronomical Equipment
The Crendon Observatory adjoins my house.
Because of trees it has to be high and the telescope sits on an 8 ton
concrete pier 22 feet tall with foundations going down 27 feet. The dome
is a 10’6” Ash one with lanphier shutter. The telescope is a 16” RCOS on a
Paramount ME and equipment includes an AO7, PIR, CFW8 with Astrodon
filters and ST10. My interest is in imaging objects in Deep Space.
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