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Some fungi from this morning's walk in woods
small orange fungi emerging from leaves on woodland floor small purple fungi emerging from leaves on woodland floor Tiny fungi growing in green moss on the bow of a tree in the woods
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Lots of these borehole pipes appeared in the local fields recently, guessing they're to monitor groundwater prior to covering the area in houses
Blue borehole pipe about 50cm tall sticking out of grass in a field. flat plate bolted to top
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Lovely (if a tad chilly) evening at the @midsandeastnt.bsky.social Belton House lights
Christmas lights at Belton house, Belton Orangery illuminated with purple light, large rainbow colour Belton sign in front Belton House Christmas lights, frosty view across lawn to illuminated Orangery Belton House Christmas lights Belton House Christmas lights, woodland walk, wicker animals illuminated in dark
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Great day catching up with friends at #Grantham 'Land of Hops & Glory' Beer Festival in St Wulfram's and sampling the ales of course
Beer festival at St Wulfram's church Grantham Beer festival at St Wulfram's church Grantham
October 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Venus in a clear blue dawn sky this morning, makes a change from wind and rain
clear morning sky just before sunrise, horizon silhouetted at bottom with small bright dot of planet Venus in centre of image
October 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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California Nebula NGC1499
Quick reprocess of some old data form 2022 in PixInsight, Skywatcher 100ED, Canon 700d, 10mins
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#Astrophotgraphy
October 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Quick reprocess of some old out of focus data using more current PixInsight workflow & tools, amazing the difference few years makes, don't miss the days of manually focusing & framing
Canon 700d, SW 100ED 11x120s
Image centre: RA: 23 16 31 Dec: +61 30 35
FOV: 2d 18' x 1d 32'
#Astrophotography
Astrophotography image showing Bubble Nebula NGC7635 at bottom and NGC7538 at top Side by side cropped images of Bubble Nebula showing same data processed in PixInsight, left is from 2022 and right is 2025
October 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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First visit to the amazing Gunby Hall @midsandeastnt.bsky.social yesterday, glorious sunny day, one of best steak pies ever had 😀 Interesting to learn the estate used to run down to the sea and include a small village now Skegness
Gunby Hall, mansion in red brick, foreground of green lawn framed by large trees Red roses in walled gardens Green lawn in walled gardens, blue skies Meat pie on large white plate in the sunshine
September 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Sparrowhawk looking for lunch
Sparrowhawk sitting on garden fence
September 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Annotated...
Annotated image of Veil Nebula
September 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Reprocess of Veil Nebula
Remnant of a supernova between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago, 2,400 light-years away
2 panel mosaic, 80min each, ASI2600MC, Esprit 100ED, Grantham UK, full size 16198x12135px
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Veil Nebula, the source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun which exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago Cropped section of Veil Nebula Cropped section of Veil Nebula Cropped section of Veil Nebula
September 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Most weeks for past few years I've past this familiar tree on my walk, today something is very wrong 😥
Tree in woods with stone painted like a yellow bee sat in the crook of a branch. Same tree with painted stone missing
September 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Managed to see end of lunar eclipse when clouds finally cleared #Grantham #astrophotography
Image of lunar eclipse with right hand side partially in shadow
September 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Veil Nebula
2 panel mosaic, each 20x240s, ASI2600MC, SW Esprit 100ED
First go at doing mosaic using NINA, processed and merged in PixInsight. Full size is nearly 200MP 😬
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The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun which exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago.
August 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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M33 Triangulum Galaxy, spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years from Earth in constellation Triangulum
Skywatcher Esprit 100ED, ZWO ASI2600MC, 6x240s (24min)
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M33 Triangulum Galaxy, spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years from Earth in constellation Triangulum
August 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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This afternoon's project, making an accessory plate to mount new Evoguide 50 on 100ED to keep it clear of the Mele PC, did consider a 'proper' plate but £50 buys a lot of alu bar 😀
Skywatcher Evoguide 50ED scope sitting on top of an Esprit 100ED scope Skywatcher Evoguide 50ED scope sitting on top of an Esprit 100ED scope
August 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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M31 Andromeda, our nearest neighbouring galaxy, taken a couple of weeks ago. Skywatcher Esprit 100ED scope, ZWO ASI2600MC Pro camera, 1 hour total exp (30x120s).
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Image of the Andromeda galaxy, a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.
August 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Found out who's been digging up the garden 🐸
August 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Caught a glimpse of Venus Jupiter conjunction just before sunrise this morning, just about make them out in pictures, Venus is the lower of two dots
Sunrise with clear skies, Venus and Jupiter in conjunction Venus and Jupiter conjunction Venus and Jupiter conjunction
August 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Bit more confident of my image from Sunday morning through clouds now 👍
Galaxy
August 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Bit late to the party but thought I'd have a look for supernova #SN2025rbs last night in between the clouds, some saying it's the bright star to the left of the NGC7331 core but not 100% convinced
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NGC7331 galaxy NGC7331 galaxy
August 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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NGC6229 Eastern veil Nebula last night
Skywatcher Esprit 100ED
ASI2600MC Pro 1h18m total exp
#Astrophotography
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Cropped image of the Eastern Veil Nebula Thin red nebulosity with blue lower edge stretching from top left towards bottom right in a shallow bowl shape, a prominence rises up on the left hand side. The nebula was discovered on 5 September 1784 by William Herschel. Wide image of the Eastern Veil Nebula Thin red nebulosity with blue lower edge stretching from top left towards bottom right in a shallow bowl shape, a prominence rises up on the left hand side. The nebula was discovered on 5 September 1784 by William Herschel.
August 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Remains of a wasp nest that something, likely someone, has dug out
July 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Large USAF Boeing just flown low over Grantham, from Omaha heading for Lakenheath it seems
Underside of low flying large white Boeing passenger jet with four engines framed against clear blue sky. Tail has blue markings on underneath. Flight shows up as Trunk72 Omaha to Lakenheath
July 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Roll cloud stretching across eastern horizon #weather
View across a field in late evening with houses in distance, above them is what appears to be a roll cloud stretching width of eastern horizon.
July 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM