05/05/2025 Flowers and bees on our evening walk after work today along the quiet roads.
Silverweed - The first few flowers are starting to show.
Broom - In amongst a bank of broom, this one stood out. I'm thinking an escaped cultivated one (Firefly?)
A couple of lovely bees on lime tree leaves, Marsham’s nomad bee and Early mining bee I think. I must have spent a good half hour just watching them doing busy bee stuff. Pretty magic.
08/04/2025 - Evening walk after work. Not far tonight as I was tired. Just took the glass to the bottle bank. The side of the pavement was full of whitlowgrass and field horsetail was starting to show. My eye was drawn to a tiny bit of blue amongst all the greens. A single early forget-me-not in flower, just magic.
02/04/2025 - Evening walk up Tap o' Noth in Aberdeenshire. We took the scope and spent 4hrs on top, just sitting, having a brew and chatting to the stars. It was chilly but we hid behind the ramparts so it was OK (there's a Pictish hillfort on top). Aurora, stars, galaxies and nebula on a dark night, it was all pretty magic.
01/04/2025 - Walk back from the chippy. The evening light was lovely on the trees.
19/03/2025 - Cold night on the hill. We took the scope with us on our evening walk. The sky was clear but slightly hazy. Tonight's photo is of the flaming star nebula. Whilst waiting (photo took about 2hrs) the aurora popped by to say hello. Quick snap with my camera (bit wobbly as I didn't have my tripod), it didn't last long but it was nice.
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01/03/2025 - A nice walk up the Buck today, a fine hill on the border between Aberdeenshire and Moray. The sunshine was lovely on the way up. We had our tea on top and watched the sun set. Dark on way back down. Stars were really good. Not much moon and the night sky is Bortle 3 here so nice and dark compared to home.
12/02/2025 - Evening walk to shake away the working day. Twilight just a little bit later now. The full moon was hiding behind the clouds. A sleepy pheasant in a tree. I had snacks in my pocket to get me to tea.
05/02/2025 - An evening spent galaxy hopping. We walked up the hill with the scope. Found a quiet spot and tried to take photos of some of the galaxies round Ursa Major. The moon was high so the sky wasn't that dark and a bit hazy maybe. We were there for about 3hrs, chilly but we had fun.
3 snaps (30 mins each one) going clockwise
M81 Cigar Galaxy
M82 Bode's Galaxy
(The Garland Galaxy, below right)
M101 The Pinwheel Galaxy
M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy
29/01/2025 - An hour of standing in a cold dark field but it was worth it. Photo centred on the wonderful dark Horsehead Nebula. The bright star to the left is Alnitak, one of the stars of Orion's Belt, with the Flame Nebula below that. Clouds came across now and again but still very happy with the snap.
18/01/2025 - Evening walk to see some stars. It had been a busy day. It was nice to spend the evening in the quiet of the universe. Just us and trillions of stars. Up and round the hill. We had tea with us and our scope. We found a quiet spot, hidden away and watched the night sky turn for a few hours. Temp was close to zero but the stars were worth it.
Photo is M33 Triangulum Galaxy. 2.73 million light-years away and thought to be home to 40 billion stars.
