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 😉
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Tag: astronomy
On the Moon…
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 😉
Read MoreComing together…
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…
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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 😉 There’s a larger version with labels here > link.
Read MoreStars and Fells
We had a run out last night to have a starlit drive through the Lakes, okay, I turned the headlights on when it became dark as driving by starlight was proving difficult 😉 We did pause a couple of times, and I liked the look of the stars just starting to appear in the sky above Buttermere and Crummock (photo from halfway up Honister). Then there was the stars above Blencathra…
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