A Clear Sky!

Having arrived home from England the sky was clear, though there was a big bright Moon and in fact the sky never gets anything like dark here at this time of year. However, I was able to shoot this nice grouping of Venus and the Twins, Castor and Pollux......



Before retiring I took this shot to the North - I have caught part of a distant NLC display! It's just above the house.



Incidentally, while I'm posting astronomy images I must mention one thing. There is an astronomy society near me which is trying to build a new photo gallery. The trouble is they don't have enough photos of their own so they have taken to copying mine, and those belonging to others, stamping their logo on them and passing them off as their own!

This isn't big and it isn't clever. Word will get around, and indeed it already is getting around, and doubt will be cast on those images that they have managed to capture themselves as well as those known to have been pinched, thus bringing the whole society into disrepute.

My advice to those concerned, and if they are reading this they know who they are, is to stop doing this and stick to publishing only the work of your own members. Your gallery may look less impressive but at least it will be your own work.

For the record, I only publish my own images.