Jupiter and Saturn – autumn planets

On Tueday Jupiter was at opposition, this means that the Sun, Earth and Jupiter are all in a line and it's the closest that Jupiter gets to us this year. It also happened to be the closest Jupiter will be for a long time, so I was keen to get out and see what images …

2001 – An Art Odyssey

Any of my long time bloggiesw ill know that one of my favourite all time SciFi stories is 2001 A Space Odyssey. For quite some time I've been thinking about what piece of work I could do for this. Eventually I chose this one, alshtough I have to say now that I would have done …

Dear Mr Alien… Division

Dear Mr Alien,I do have to ask for your help here, you've probably done all of this and know what we've got to do but why do we humans make it so difficult for ourselves?Can you tell us where we're going wrong?We humans as a race are divided like this and in so many other …

Blog Orbit – Blog Date September 2022

Hello there bloggies! It's me, Simon - if you can remember me! I wasn't about much last month and I've not got much to tell you but I do have a couple of things... Most of what the last month about focused on a few little things as far as I can see:1) The end …

A Galaxy of Stars

A few weeks ago the sky was clearer than I've seen it for a long time and after seeing the success of someone else taking a picture with my same camrea I thought I would try the same settings and give it a go. The big variable with taking astrophotography pictures is the quality of …

Astro Pics – 2 Planets and a Cluster

The nights over the last few weeks have been quite clear over England with the weather being unseasonably dry. This always offers some wonderful night time views of the sky and I knew it was coming up to the time where Saturn and Jupiter were in the sky.Then last week I say that yellowy star …

Blog Orbit – Blog Date August 2022

Hello there bloggies! I can't believe we're already 10 days into August and I've not posted for a few week. That's a bit bad of me... Over here on this little island the ship is sinking with no one at the helm, or we would be sinking if it wasn't quite so dry here, we're …

The Squirrel Cage Cutter

Back in early spring when food was hard to come by for all our feathered and furry friends the local squirrel (or one of them) was as is usual helping himself to the birsds nuts and it seems they were having some difficulty getting to the nuts inside. Squirrel on bird feeder - Copyright Simon …

FIGEL and the intern

This is my Blog Battle Entry for July 2022 and the prompt is Hatch. Figel and the Intern Figel Narage was one of the most annoying, self righteous and obnoxious individuals to work at the Jacob and Bradley management consultancy. He was also totally incompetent however he had managed through all kind of obnoxious schemes …

The Cosmic Chronicles – The Mercury Enigma

From the Earth, to the Sun and out towards the great interstellar unknown every object has it's story. All these things making up the universe, our solar system and life on Earth is as much a part of this great infinite clockwork. In fact the word Cosmos means the universe as a complex, ordered entity, …

Moon Craters 2

It has to be said... when you start looking at Moon craters close up it can get a bit addictive. As the Moon waxes and wanes through it's cycles the different parts of the moon are either lit up or cast into shadow, bringing out loads of detail. Copyright Simon Farnell 2022 Copyright Simon Farnell …

The Cosmic Chronicles – Gravity, The Celestial Sculptor

From the Earth, to the Sun and out towards the great interstellar unknown every object has it's story. All these things making up the universe, our solar system and life on Earth is as much a part of this great infinite clockwork. In fact the word Cosmos means the universe as a complex, ordered entity, …