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Stars over Castlerigg

16 November 2020 Graeme Skinner

I decided to paint a Castlerigg Stone Circle night scene, to make it a bit more interesting I decided to paint a fairly accurate night sky, so I worked out how the sky would have looked the from the day we got married and painted that πŸ˜‰

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Getting together

31 January 2019 Graeme Skinner

I managed a quick couple of photographs of Venus, the waning crescent Moon, and Jupiter this morning. It was rather cold out there so I didn’t linger πŸ˜‰

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On the Moon…

16 November 2017 Graeme Skinner

Started off working on a Tolkien themed Moon illustration and ended up doing a pen & ink Lunar lander with a bit of text added on πŸ˜‰

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Coming together…

13 November 2017 Graeme Skinner

I went out early to see the coming together of Jupiter and Venus, okay, they didn’t quite come together but they were quite close from where I saw them from πŸ˜‰ anyone, before they popped over the Pennines I took a photo of Orion over the pond…    

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Planetary Magic

1 October 2015 Graeme Skinner

Whilst out for an early morning wander with Hugo I noticed Venus, Mars and Jupiter rising above the Pennines with the almost full Moon illuminating the foreground, so I wandered back to the house for the camera and tripod and went back out πŸ˜‰   There’s a larger version with labels here > link.

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