I watched the meteor shower from the field at the Secret Nuclear Bunker where a group of us were camped doing radio stuff including bouncing signals off the ionized gas trail left by burned up meteors (meteor scatter). I captured this time-lapse video which does include a few meteors as well as a pass by …
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A pretty visitor to the garden
A nice Garden Tiger (Artica caja) spotted this morning on the grass in the garden. It’s a widespread moth, strikingly colored and patterned. I’ve not seen the larval form on any of its likely food plants, so have no idea if there will be more appearing soon.
Mountain! Ben Nevis 2014
Just a quick look around the top of Ben Nevis in summer 2014.
Merry Christmas
A Christmas eve night sky, including a few stars, a couple of passes of the international space station, and lots of aircraft.
#xraymyadvent 15/12/2014
It’s light and fluffy with a denser centre. Any guesses?