Tag: UCCI Observatory
UCCI observatory records Mercury transit
(CNS): Cosmic experts at the University College of the Cayman Islands joined astronomers around the world on Monday in recording the transit of Mercury across the Sun. The solar system’s smallest planet and the one closest to our star was captured on film by Dr Bill Hrudy at the Observatory he founded at UCCI. Over […]
New scope captures striking images of sunspot
(CNS): A new custom eight-inch solar Newtonian telescope designed and constructed by Bill Hrudey, the observatory director at the University College of the Cayman Islands, is helping the local astronomer capture incredible images of the sun. Hrudey said the scope is one of fewer than 25 across the world and the only one in the […]
UCCI observatory images make headlines on line
(CNS): Fantastic pictures taken by Bill Hrudey using the telescope at the UCCI Observatory of the largest solar flares the cosmic expert says he has ever seen made it to the front page of the international website, Spaceweather, last week. Hrudey’s pictures show what he described as a “humungous hedgerow solar prominence” on the sun, which […]
