A day spent at the Globe doing the Henries in sequence.
I’m in awe of the cast. A single cast, 3 plays and the better part of 9 hours.
Definitely worth doing.
I noticed about a dozen others that stayed for all three. We should have got a badge.
I’ve been trying to get back into astrophotography after many years lapse. I’m still learning my way around the new technology, so haven’t yet made the best use of some wonderful clear nights.
That said, I did get out a week or so back and get around 30 minutes of total exposure time on the Orion nebula. The processing I’ve done on the image is a bit rough and ready so far – I really need more exposure time and some short exposures to fill in the over-exposed centre of the nebula.
Here’s the result so far.
My third time in this race, previous years being 2016 and 2017.
Didn’t get a personal best, but given much of my preparation for the race consisted of eating and sitting still, I don’t think I did go badly at 53.45
Same time next year.
Partial Luna eclipses (where the moon slides through Earth’s shadow, but a bit remains uncovered) are not particularly rare, there are at least two per year. Full Luna eclipses (where the moon is entirely covered by the Earth’s shadow) are a tad rarer, but not overly.
This isn’t good enough in these social media times, so the boring old Luna eclipse has to become a Super Wolf Blood Moon or some old bollocks.
Anyway, all that could be seen from my window this morning was this.
A quiet one this year, needed after a busy year.
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