Friday, 29 February 2008

Occultation of Venus 18th June 2007 14.21 gmt


I lost this picture many months ago.

Luckily I found it recently, hidden on one of our cd disks!!

Thursday, 21 February 2008

Total Lunar Eclipse 21st February 2008


I sat outside, early hours of this morning waiting for the total lunar eclipse.

Huddled sitting on a rug, with blankets and warm clothing, hoping the clouds would move away.

Luckily they did long enough for me to capture these images.

I spent a lot of the time leaning against my chair nodding off....or using the binoculars to view the totality.

It's wonderful to see stars in such close proximity to a full moon, the blackness of space around that shining lunar disk is a sight not often seen..

I took full advantage of it.

Dreaming of Selene, as the clouds rolled in.

Well the Moon was eclipsed this morning, though from here, overlooking Newgale cliffs it was the clouds that did the eclipsing!  If memory s...