Astronomy – Page 2 – Graeme Skinner

It would have been unwise…

12 July 202012 July 2020 Graeme Skinner

We decided to stay up a bit later than usual last night to catch a glimpse of C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) – hereto known after as Neowise, or Neo the Wise. Anyway, we sat and watched the sky change and the stars slowly appear, it became a little chilly so I grabbed a glass of whisky (I’ve got to consider my health after all ;-)). The horizon where Neo the Wise would be putting on its show was cloudy, the cloud gradually built up so we retreated inside. Scroll forward a…

It’s full of stars…

5 October 2019 Graeme Skinner

On our trip over the border we were lucky enough to have a couple of nights where the sky was amazing clear, it would have been wrong not to take a couple of photographs 😉

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 😉

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 😉

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 😉 anyone, before they popped over the Pennines I took a photo of Orion over the pond…