Holmes still visible, Wild Weather

Well, during a clear spell last week I set up my Equatorial Mount, put my new camera on top of it with a 135mm f2.8 lens fitted and took this photo of Comet 17P/Holmes. It is still enormous but has faded very much since I last caught it nearly three weeks earlier. Still, there's always the possibility of a second outburst as happened in 1892.



Apart ftom the occasional clear spell much of the recent weather has been quite wild involving snow, sleet, massive downpours and gale force winds. Here's a couple of shots taken at Lough Neagh last Thursday - remember this is an inland lake, not the Atlantic coast!




Add in freezing temperatures and it looks like this "Global Warming" isn't all it's cracked up to be!