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Graeme Skinner — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:45:34 +0000

I woke fairly early and decided to check the sky, as it was clear I popped out into the garden in the hope of photographing comet Ison. I managed a few ‘star’ photographs before the cloud started to play games, the horizon was clear one minute and obscured the next. I’ve yet to check all the photographs for Ison, but I did like this one star pic.

In between looking for Ison I turned the camera towards the Moon.

After a while I watched the clouds more than the stars or Moon, the highlight and shadow play was quite interesting to watch

Fast forward a couple of hours and we’re on our way to collect the animals from their pet hotel and I stopped to take a quick panoramic.

There’s a zoomable version of the panoramic here.

Oh yes, the animals were staying in their hotel as we took a brief trip to Shropshire and while we were there called into Hay-on-Wye…

Sadly the castle is no longer a bookshop

After dark & before the dawn

Graeme Skinner — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 14:58:55 +0000

Decided to take the camera to work last night and snapped a couple of shots from the balcony…

A few hours later and I made another attempt at photographing Comet Ison as it was well above the horizon yet still stuck in the murk of Appleby’s light pollution. It took a bit of squinting at the screen but now I see it I know what to look for on the other shots

Finally on my way home, bleary eyed, I stopped to take a photo of the Moon as the Earthshine was rather strong this morning.

comet ison – Graeme Skinner

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