I’ve always had an interest in astronomy and have dabbled in astrophotography since I got my first digital camera back in the late 1990s. Over the years I’ve got images of all the planets except Neptune and Pluto. The latter of these is never going to be an easy target for the lazy amateur (me), …
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Lunar Eclipse September 2015
I do like a good eclipse, but not enough to be awake at 3am to photograph it. So, I set up a camera to take one picture every 30 seconds, pointed it roughly where I expected the moon to be at the time of maximum eclipse and set it recording. Stacking the images with StarStaX …
Perseids meteor shower
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 …
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.
Merry Christmas
A Christmas eve night sky, including a few stars, a couple of passes of the international space station, and lots of aircraft.