21 April 2013

Daffodils, Narcissus pseudonarcissus
Some local flowers, interviewed yesterday by our intrepid reporter. We ask the tough questions they didn’t want to answer.

Primroses, Primula vulgaris

Forget-me-nots, Myosotis sylvatica

Grape hyacinths, Muscaria armeniacum
24 July 2012

On a cheerful evening walk near my house.
24 July 2012

This was taken with my DSLR mounted on the telescope tube, and using the telescope’s motor drive to track the sky for a five minute exposure (click to embigulate). We have looked at the Pleiades before, but I’m quite pleased with this picture because it brings out some colours, and a tree in my garden managed to sneak into the frame. You can see that the tree blurs slightly as though it’s moving; actually, the tree stayed still, while the camera and the sky moved.