The Milky Way (1st attempt).

Jupiter & Saturn

3am and I just woke up Em and the kids so we could see Jupiter and Saturn through the telescope for the first time together- just incredible, I’m still buzzing from watching it

Whirlpool Galaxy - my second attempt at stacking.

Whirlpool Galaxy - my first attempt at stacking

Sombrero Galaxy, M12 & M14

‪Trying out some longer exposures tonight (60-90s on 3600ISO)‬

We found the perfect picnic spot

Vega, Moon and ISS

Glorious moon, Vega sparkle, and slightly blurry ISS.
Enjoying a lovely fresh evening of nightsky gazing.

Welcome back old friend (first new DSLR pic).

Spica and Double Double

Spica and Double Double (I think)
First time trying the DSLR with the telescope tonight, and I lost track of what I took photos of!

My goodness, it’s made of stars!

Venus! (and the moon)

Experimenting with the stacking app (windows only!) to process the photos I took last night using a ZWO telescope camera.

It’s designed for long bursts of short exposure shots, for distant object, trying to compensate for atmospheric disturbance.

Plossl 40mm, 17mm, 13mm

‪Just enough gaps in the clouds to try to get higher magnification of the moon with the plossl 17mm and 13mm (along with the standard 40mm)‬
‪Shot on #iPhone attached to the eyepiece.‬
‪Also very glad I got a moonfilter I lost all night vision after the first look.‬

Moon-gazing (between the clouds)

Amazing Starlink pass tonight!!We saw 40+ in a big long drawn out t...

Tents & Telescopes

‪More time enjoying the new moon tonight and clearer conditions and a little more practice, and we’re getting much closer shots of the moon.‬

New Moon

Clear skies, few airplanes and lots of Starlink satellites 

Zoe’s making some new friends ;)

La Dolce Vita - Aceto Balsamico

There are things in life that we end of ‘saving for a special occasion’... maybe a really nice bottle of wine, or that incredible balsamic that we bought in Modena during the 2018 europtrip.

Well, it seems to me that the current times remind us that we are already living in the best of times... these times being any that we get to enjoy in good health, and in the company of our loved ones, whatever the other circumstances may be....

So instead of waiting for a special occasion, we made the time we already have more special now, by savouring this balsamic, and reminiscing of our family adventures.

Fresh cress 

Making the most of what we have:
Home grown cress for a lovely egg and cress open sandwich 

Clear Skies Stunning Moon

Starry starry night

Perfect timing to have some really crisp clear nights, with almost no planes, and some really bright ISS flybys. Despite being really chilly Zoe and I sat out in the garden for about 1.5 hours enjoying the space around us and the space above us. 

Crystal clear ISS flyby

Venus, and no plane trails because of the coronavirus lockdown

Toilet roll caricatures

‪For those with an abundance of toilet rolls.... and an abundance of time stuck in the house with the kids:‬
‪Zoe suggests making toilet roll caricatures ‬
‪My likeness is quite uncanny!‬
‪#coronacreative ‬