I took a few comparisons, to see how the garden has developed since I started planting in April 2024. Despite the frosts and Winter season,...
4/5th January 2025Like large parts of the UK, on Saturday night the snow came to County Durham. We probably got around 3 inches of snow, laying...
To finish the evening of the 19th, I turned the scope on the Moon which had now risen. That was at 22° above the horizon. It was a bit too low for...
After a coffee break to warm up inside ( it was 0°C at the observatory ), Mars had risen high enough to give it a go. It was at 35° for this first...
After Venus, I moved on to Saturn, which was only 23° above the horizon. This is still far from ideal, being amongst the light and dust pollution...
I did quite a bit of hand-held imaging of Sun sets and Moon rises across October and November, plus some more close up solar imaging, but I'm...
Four days later on the 14th, the cloudy sky cleared around sun set, allowing me to find and photograph Comet 2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS.Initially...
The aurora were back on the 10th of October, capturing three colours spread across a wide area of the sky from home.[IMG][IMG][IMG][IMG]
I was away at a 1940s event at the start of May and missed the large Aurora event that so many people were sharing pictures of. However, I got an...
In addition to doing more solar imaging in June, on the 28th, there was a display of Noctilucent clouds. I believe the name comes from the German...
Professional and space based observatories watch the Sun in all sorts of different wavelengths, each showing different details and...
Some of you may have seen my garden thread, where I built an observatory and garden railway feature. Since the observatory was completed in 2022,...
The forecast here isn't great for the next few days. I want to get out and catch Jupiter, since it is just passed opposition, but again, my...
9th December 2024A couple of days ago, the paving company delivered the other twenty four concrete sleepers for the lawn edging. They'll be...
The room to the far right is my workshop, not the bedroom.The window on the left is the kitchen window. To its right, is one of the small back...
The wind is easing here in County Durham, 'though still very windy. Various weather apps said 30mph average windspeeds, with 60mph gusts here. The...
7th December 2024In other news, a month in, I'm yet to start decorating the bedroom, as I'm still pulling it to pieces! The room was covered in...
Despite the storm, so far, everything in the garden is where it should be. The rain isn't falling, it's going sideways at a considerable speed....
I always turn my phone off at night and sleep very badly anyway. Since being a baby and for the following 55 years, I've always had problems with...
They started off as a twig in the middle of 2021 and have been cut back twice. I think they are doing okay considering how they started and the...
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