Another year has flown by with not as much time for astronomy and astrophotography as I’d like. Light pollution is terrible from my observing location in East London, so only the brightest deep sky objects are really suitable targets for me (at least until I get a decent filter, or go for narrowband imaging £££). …
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Christmas 2019
Christmas is always a bitter-sweet time for me, I’m not one for big family get-togethers and my family seem to enjoy dying at the end of the year too. Over the years at least four have popped their clogs between Xmas Eve and New year. Let’s hear a hearty FUCK CANCER here too. This year …
Birthday 2019
Not a big birthday, but it coincided with a holiday to the Cyclades. I flew a kite on Atlantis. Not sure I have a photo of that, so instead here’s a photo of kite flying on the Disneyland of the gods island of Dilos.
Family portrait
Three planets and a moon in one photograph. From the island of Naxos, the temple of Apollo. The Moon rises over the gate of Apollo, Saturn is just to the right of the Moon and Jupiter is further to the right of the image. This was taken just a day after the Moon-Saturn conjunction, and …
Airports
I always get anxious about air travel. It’s not the flying so much, it’s everything else. Getting to the airport, killing time while there, the unintelligible announcements. The whole kit and kaboodle. That said, I also find it impossible to be less than two hours early if I’m traveling alone. I’m writing this sitting in …