Day two of X-raying seasonal things brings us the bane of all tree decorators.
#xraymyadvent 1/12/2014
I’m going to be X-Ray scanning a bunch of seasonal themed items for this year’s advent.
Here’s the first of them.
Answer under the break
The night sky
Spending the weekend on lake Pokegama (Po- Keg-Ama, not Pokey-Gamma) in Grand Rapids gave a nice opportunity to get some really dark skies for astronomy and astrophotography. The first evening was overcast until well past my bed-time. The second evening was pretty special.
Around 10pm, the milky way was glowing overhead, the constellations were hard to pick out as there were many more background stars than a London based sky-watcher normally sees.
I took some photographs, of course. The settings were 18mm focal length, infinity focus, 20sec exposure time, and remote control shutter release (to avoid camera shake).
Solar eclipse October 2014
An unexpected bonus of being in the US this October was the chance to see the partial solar eclipse.
A simple setup with a nature spotting telescope let me grab this image.
A large sunspot group is just visible vanishing behind both the moon and the silhouette of the house on the other side of the street.
Minnesota
I’m in Minnesota, Minneapolis to be precise for the next few weeks. It’s pretty with autumnal colours.
