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Sometimes walking in the countryside you get a feeling you're being watched

small orange fungi emerging from leaves on woodland floor

small purple fungi emerging from leaves on woodland floor

Tiny fungi growing in green moss on the bow of a tree in the woods

Some fungi from this morning's walk in woods

Blue borehole pipe about 50cm tall sticking out of grass in a field. flat plate bolted to top

Lots of these borehole pipes appeared in the local fields recently, guessing they're to monitor groundwater prior to covering the area in houses

Christmas lights at Belton house, Belton Orangery illuminated with purple light, large rainbow colour Belton sign in front

Belton House Christmas lights, frosty view across lawn to illuminated Orangery

Belton House Christmas lights

Belton House Christmas lights, woodland walk, wicker animals illuminated in dark

Lovely (if a tad chilly) evening at the @midsandeastnt.bsky.social Belton House lights

Beer festival at St Wulfram's church Grantham

Beer festival at St Wulfram's church Grantham

Great day catching up with friends at #Grantham 'Land of Hops & Glory' Beer Festival in St Wulfram's and sampling the ales of course

clear morning sky just before sunrise, horizon silhouetted at bottom with small bright dot of planet Venus in centre of image

Venus in a clear blue dawn sky this morning, makes a change from wind and rain

California Nebula NGC1499
Quick reprocess of some old data form 2022 in PixInsight, Skywatcher 100ED, Canon 700d, 10mins
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This notebook contains the original annotated computer code that helped the Big Ear telescope detect the famous Wow! Signal, and other signals, during the 1970s. #seti #retrocomputing #astronomyhistor

Astrophotography image showing Bubble Nebula NGC7635 at bottom and NGC7538 at top

Side by side cropped images of Bubble Nebula showing same data processed in PixInsight, left is from 2022 and right is 2025

Quick reprocess of some old out of focus data using more current PixInsight workflow & tools, amazing the difference few years makes, don't miss the days of manually focusing & framing
Canon 700d, SW 100ED 11x120s
Image centre: RA: 23 16 31 Dec: +61 30 35
FOV: 2d 18' x 1d 32'
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Gunby Hall, mansion in red brick, foreground of green lawn framed by large trees

Red roses in walled gardens

Green lawn in walled gardens, blue skies

Meat pie on large white plate in the sunshine

First visit to the amazing Gunby Hall @midsandeastnt.bsky.social yesterday, glorious sunny day, one of best steak pies ever had 😀 Interesting to learn the estate used to run down to the sea and include a small village now Skegness

Sparrowhawk sitting on garden fence

Sparrowhawk looking for lunch

Annotated image of Veil Nebula

Annotated...

Veil Nebula, the source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun which exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago

Cropped section of Veil Nebula

Cropped section of Veil Nebula

Cropped section of Veil Nebula

Reprocess of Veil Nebula
Remnant of a supernova between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago, 2,400 light-years away
2 panel mosaic, 80min each, ASI2600MC, Esprit 100ED, Grantham UK, full size 16198x12135px
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Tree in woods with stone painted like a yellow bee sat in the crook of a branch.

Same tree with painted stone missing

Most weeks for past few years I've past this familiar tree on my walk, today something is very wrong 😥

Image of lunar eclipse with right hand side partially in shadow

Managed to see end of lunar eclipse when clouds finally cleared #Grantham #astrophotography

A black and white starless shot of galactic gas and dust that resembles a flying dragon against a dark background.

Here is 13 hrs of Ha data from my latest work-in-progress, “The Flying Dragon Nebula” in Cygnus. I did a quick process & removed the stars in PixInsight. Still need to capture RGB and maybe some SII but so far so good. Imaged from my yard with a Stellarvue SVX80 and 0.8 reducer. 🔭 #Astrophotography

The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun which exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago.

Veil Nebula
2 panel mosaic, each 20x240s, ASI2600MC, SW Esprit 100ED
First go at doing mosaic using NINA, processed and merged in PixInsight. Full size is nearly 200MP 😬
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Astrophotography by myrialejean Few frames at the end of the night, sky a bit hazy

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M33 Triangulum Galaxy, spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years from Earth in constellation Triangulum

M33 Triangulum Galaxy, spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years from Earth in constellation Triangulum
Skywatcher Esprit 100ED, ZWO ASI2600MC, 6x240s (24min)
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Skywatcher Evoguide 50ED scope sitting on top of an Esprit 100ED scope

Skywatcher Evoguide 50ED scope sitting on top of an Esprit 100ED scope

This afternoon's project, making an accessory plate to mount new Evoguide 50 on 100ED to keep it clear of the Mele PC, did consider a 'proper' plate but £50 buys a lot of alu bar 😀

Image of the Andromeda galaxy, a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.

M31 Andromeda, our nearest neighbouring galaxy, taken a couple of weeks ago. Skywatcher Esprit 100ED scope, ZWO ASI2600MC Pro camera, 1 hour total exp (30x120s).
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Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd cover dies aged 88 Ronnie Rondell Jr's decades-long career saw him appear in films and TV including Baywatch, Spartacus and The Matrix Reloaded.

Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd cover dies aged 88
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Found out who's been digging up the garden 🐸

Sunrise with clear skies, Venus and Jupiter in conjunction

Venus and Jupiter conjunction

Venus and Jupiter conjunction

Caught a glimpse of Venus Jupiter conjunction just before sunrise this morning, just about make them out in pictures, Venus is the lower of two dots

Galaxy

Bit more confident of my image from Sunday morning through clouds now 👍

1 hour on the Crescent Nebula on 8/5/25 with Celestron C11, Starizona Hyperstar and using ZWO ASI2600MC Pro camera and IDAS NBZ UHS filter.

NGC7331 galaxy

NGC7331 galaxy

Bit late to the party but thought I'd have a look for supernova #SN2025rbs last night in between the clouds, some saying it's the bright star to the left of the NGC7331 core but not 100% convinced
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