Took a quick shot of the Moon rising this morning before I headed to bed as it looked quite nice with Venus just showing through the cloud as well.


Took a quick shot of the Moon rising this morning before I headed to bed as it looked quite nice with Venus just showing through the cloud as well.


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 π


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

The 1st of January saw a nice alignment of Mars, Neptune and Venus along with the Moon just to keep them company. Not sure I picked Neptune up on these two shots, I didn’t enlarge and tweak them to see π


Last night I tried for a little Moon-shot….

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 π
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