Astronomy

From the Moon to the Hills

Returning home from work I paused for a moment after getting out of the car to take a quick photograph of the Moon hiding in cloud…

A few hours later the cloud pretty much cleared and I snapped a bit of snow on the Pennines.

 

Appleby at night

A quick photograph of my office taken during a gap in traffic ;-)

Moonlit Morning

Went out for a few photographs before the Sun popped up today, quite enjoyed the long exposures with the clouds moving, would have been nice to have had a clearer view of the hills as well though.

Not sure what caused those two lights in front of the cloud on this last photo, didn’t notice anything when I took them, but then I wasn’t looking up there ;-)

M45

Thought I’d try a zoomable version of this astrophoto ;-)

It’s full of stars…

I went out early this morning to look at the stars as they wheeled above Ullswater. It was rather chilly but well worth it in the end.

First of all I looked at Orion jumping over the fells -

 

Then I looked at the Pleiades and then the Pleiades & Jupiter -

 

Finally I turned the camera towards Cassiopeia, Perseus and Andromeda -

Here’s a full size segment from this photograph of Andromeda -

It’s hard to imagine that the little fuzzy blur actually contains around one trillion stars, not that I counted them myself you understand.

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