Here for over 17 years sharing photos but The Blue Sky Butterfly is where you can find my posts now. Same name.
London, UK
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Anyone lucky to have a ticket for the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition at the @britishmuseum or plans to try and get one for the next public batch, allow plenty of time for waiting. Two & a half hours of which 35 minutes is actual viewing. That said, it is a wonderful thing to see!
Is the British Museum simply selling too many tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry? msn.com/en-gb/news/other/is-…
Good morning. 6am shot of a fabulous Moon. 6.7% waning crescent with lots of Earthshine.
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Happy Saturday Mooning! I'll have a half thank you. Actually a 3rd Quarter Moon fighting its way through the clouds. 53% illuminated.
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Another Blue Sky Moon! This morning it is down to 64% lit and just 220k miles away.
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A hat trick of Moon shots today!
Tonight's rising 69% waning gibbous looks fantastic in the north eastern sky.
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Two Moon shots 4 hours apart this morning. The start of 2026 last quarter and an approximately three quarters full waning gibbous before and after sunrise!
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Fantastic Moon this evening. 84.9% waxing gibbous. Looks great through the 8 inch telescope!
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This evening's 84% waxing Moon rising through the 'Belt of Venus'.
Nothing to do with the planet but the anti-twilight arch is a beautiful atmospheric phenomenon that appears as a glowing pink or rosy band in the sky during twilight.
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Supernova SN2026aaiv was Discovered 3 weeks ago & quickly became the year's brightest resulting from a white dwarf star detonating roughly 40 million light-years away in the spiral galaxy NGC 7331 (found in the Pegasus constellation). Capured by my Dwarf3 smartscope. @StormHour
ALT In these images, the left shows NGC7331 last year and last week on the right clearly revealing the Supernova.
ALT The supernova is marked on this image captured 4 days ago.
This evening's 76.5% Waxing Gibbous Moon. My favourite region of the 'Jewelled Handle' and the 'Bay of Rainbows standing out now.
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Commemorating 25 years since #9/11
1. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre on my first visit in 1999.
2. The view of NYC from the top on my 2nd visit in 2000.
3. The Ground Zero on my 3rd visit in 2007
4. The #NewYork skyline in 1999, 2007 and today's web cam
#NeverForget
Last night was superb for shooting the stars (The Pleiades), galaxies (Andromeda), nebulae (Orion) and the 40% Moon.
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Last night's Moon/Saturn close encounter. Hundreds of millions of miles apart of course!
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Another day, another Moon shot. This time it is waning at 97.3%
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Mineral Moon!
With all the fuss regarding yesterday's Lunar Eclipse, it shouldn't be forgotten it was the full 'Sturgeon' Moon. I have just processed it, pre eclipse, to produce a mineralised version.
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What a month for astronomical events! 93% lunar and 91% solar eclipses!
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75 minutes in 16 seconds. A hint of red towards the end of the #PartialLunarEclipse @StormHour @MoonHourSocial #MoonHour
Just over an hour until the maximum 'partial' lunar eclipse.
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