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…

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Bloomin’ Weather

This weekend we had a friend staying with us from Brazil, so we offered to show her around the area, of course the Cumbrian weather did its best to try and dampen our spirits but it failed πŸ˜‰ So here are a few photographs of our whistle stop tour of Cumbria – As you can see, at the end of the tour the weather was perfect πŸ˜‰

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