This is probably one of the most famous and well photographed trees in the UK. It lies close to the town of Haltwhistle and grows from the base of Hadrian’s Wall. The wall snakes its way from West to East and was built by the Romans. Here you can see our sister Galaxy Andromeda in the sky to the left of the tree. Andromeda lies 2.537 million light years away and is our closest galactic neighb..
My award-winning image from Astro Photographer of the Year 2019. This single 10 second exposure shows me and one of my dogs, Floyd with Mars to the left and Saturn to the right. Also, on the right you can the Galactic Core of our Milky Way Galaxy, the gas cloud at the very centre where 26,000 light years away lies the Super Massive Black Hole Sagittarius A*. Either side of this you can see Libra, ..
The iconic Sycamore Gap late one January night. This is a stack of 140 separate photos taken one after the other and then laid on top of each other to show the rotation of the Earth over 45 minutes. At the centre of the swirl you can see Polaris, the North Star. This lies 433.8 light years away and is just to the side of celestial north. To the left you can see the constellations of Cassiopeia ..