An old friend.....we celebrate our 32nd anniversary this year!
Friday 9 November 2007
Tuesday 6 November 2007
Total Lunar Eclipse March 3rd 2007
Monday 29 October 2007
Tranit of Venus.... 8th June 2004
I captured this photo using a Canon EOS 1000, 35mm SLR camera.
I was sitting in a camping tent, with the 60mm refractor poking out of the tent flaps.
This seemed the best way to capture some contrast in my solar projection.
Sun projection method
(the safest way to view the Sun)
Wasn't sure if I could view the transit, the early morning cloud cover was considerable.
Luckily about 9.00am it cleared up nicely....blue skies from that moment on....beautiful transit.
Friday 26 October 2007
Lunar eclipse 7th September 2006.
Thursday 25 October 2007
Venus 19th of October 2007
Captured this image a few mornings ago.
Venus in the morning seems magical to me, possibly because I'm not fully awake at 6.15 am!!.
Recently the planet has been dazzling in the eyepiece.
Wonderful blues/violets showing up in the eyepiece at high power, thanks to the achromatic lens......though you won't find me complaining about it...:-)
Skywatcher 150mm f8 refractor, Nikon D50, Camera adapter+ 12.5mm ortho.
Recently the planet has been dazzling in the eyepiece.
Wonderful blues/violets showing up in the eyepiece at high power, thanks to the achromatic lens......though you won't find me complaining about it...:-)
Skywatcher 150mm f8 refractor, Nikon D50, Camera adapter+ 12.5mm ortho.
Partial solar eclipse 3rd of October 2005.
This eclipse was clouded out completely in Simpson Cross.
We rushed towards town in the hope that a sighting would be possible.
Luckily in Haverfordwest a brief gap in the clouds allowed two photographs to be taken.
The temperature did noticeable drop during the eclipse.
Also the birds were singing quietly as they did in the eclipse of 11th August 1999.
Photo: Fuji finepix f450
Photo: Fuji finepix f450
To the Moon.
Art thou pale for weariness
of climbing heaven and gazing on the Earth
wandering companion less
among the stars that have a different birth,
and ever changing like a joyless eye
that finds no object worth its constancy.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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