Great weather, then it ended!

Well we had a few days of splendid weather but it all ended - literally - with a bang! Massive thunderstorms and flooding came today with great disruption in Belfast and two pretty scared cats here. I did manage to stop the thunder for a while by running a video camera until the batteries ran out, but then it started again, so no pictures for me this time.

Still, plenty of photography was done while the weather was good. I've been on the front page of Spaceweather - set the date to June 7th and you'll see my panoramic NLC shot taken last Wednesday night - or see it here....

We've also had the International Space Station come past, as well as the Space Shuttle. Here's a composite image of the ISS pass on Saturday night giving an impression of the arc travelled by the ISS from here in Northern Ireland where we are further north than the top of the orbit.



We've also had some great atmospherics such as this Sun Pillar in a fabulous sky...



But for now it's all over. Here's a great sky just down the road at Drains' Bay



Great website I came across...

Andy's Shot Glass

Andy's a Texan guy who sells telescopes, but this site has some of the best Flash tutorials and articles about things like Polar Alignment and Collimation that I've ever seen, presented in a way that delivers at all levels, beginner to expert. Becaus of the use of the Flash format it is really only for Broadband users though.