Perseids (startrails)

Here are some perseids, satellites, planes and stars from Monday AM's Perseid display.

Nova Delphinus 2013

Fighting cloud and full moon, but you can see the nova. 70mm f2.8 10seconds 1600iso

Perseid overview

A montage of most of the perseids I recorded last Mon night/Tues morning. For a timelape of the whole night see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA2M5Nr9k7Y

Tumbling satellite

This was during a perseid watch. The satellite (below Cass) is the rocket of the COBE satellite

Back to the sky-Christmas day

Jupiter and the moon have their monthly assignation. Tweaked the lunar image to show the different coloured rocks on the lunar surface. The top image of the moon is from the same original as the other with Jupiter but has the saturation reduced. One may be tending towards"cheap pizza" but I think it shows off the colour differences better.

Interesting weekend. I'm not a twitcher (have neither the knowledge or the money) but I did enjoy chasing two local rarities - the Egyptian Goose at Manor Farm and then the Cattle Egret first at Manor Farm, then it came to Haversham - it was nice to be able to walk to a twitch!. The Orange Tip Butterfly was at Linford reserve

This was the bund yesterday That's a strip of comparatively dry land on Linford Lake that is a good habitat for all manner of water birds. It has been pretty much submerged for the last 2-3 weeks (about the whole of the time I've had a permit). It looks to be recovering now so I'm looking forward to all sorts of goodies.