Prepare yourselves dear reader, for a story of betrayal, misery and murder, for today we visit Glencoe for its gorgeous glen and its murderous mountains. The weather is appalling, ‘pishing it doon’ as…
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Another day in our Scotland road trip and this time we make for the road to Skye, and we’re accompanied by a fine Scotch mist. This is significantly better than be being…
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After the disappointment of Loch Ness, this time we’re heading to west Scotland’s spectacular scenery of Loch Shiel and Glenfinnan to the silver sands of Morar away from screaming sirens of society.…
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The Great Glen is a huge geological fault, not nearly as many faults as me as my wife likes to point out, that cuts diagonally across the highlands 62 miles long with…
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We’re north of the wall, one built by the Romans to keep the buckfast binging, bagpipe bashing, tartan totting, kilted claymore wielding clansmen and painted Picts at bay. This is the wild…
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The Trifid Nebula, also known as Messier 20, is located over 5000 light years away in the constellation Sagittarius in a stellar nursery, a star forming region of the Scutum arm of…
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Leonardo da Vinci, polymath, sculptor, engineer, scientist, inventor, painter and artist. The epitome of renaissance man and on display at Nottingham Castle, 10 of the finest drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci from…
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As I celebrate my 45th orbit of the sun, it would seem appropriate that one old fossil gets to visit some other old fossils, so today finds us extreme dog walking deep…
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My image of the Veil Nebula showing the delicate wispy remains of a supernova remnant. A supernova is the final destructive explosion of a massive star and can temporarily outshine the output…
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Richard Wagner was a man with too much time on his hands. Der Ring des Nibelungen or better known as Wagner’s Ring Cycle took him 26 years to complete, the very definition…
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A warning, this is not the usual semi-romantic dog walking adventure you may have seen on this site before. It’s a grim reminder of a hopefully bygone era, today we are visiting the York…
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Following the River Wye in Monsal Dale is a pleasant journey through Taddington Woods and the subject of today’s extreme dog walk. To be honest its not exactly extreme and not exactly…
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The Roaches form a gritstone escarpment in the Peak District looking over the Leek, Tittesworth Reservoir and the Cheshire Plain. This jagged crest of rocks, along with Hen Cloud and Ramshaw Rocks marks…
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That tiny round black dot is Mercury. The 2016 Mercury transit of the Sun in a relatively rare astronomical event and visible in the UK for the entire time that Mercury’s silhouette…
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The East Midlands Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, or EM-Con 2016 in Nottingham, is a magnet for the nerds, dorks and geeks of the East Midlands, which is clearly why I am here.…
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Some people are on the pitch…they think it’s all over. It is now, it’s four! Those legendary words uttered by Kenneth Wolstenholme back in 1966 as Geoff Hurst scored the final goal…
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A solar test of the ZWO ASI120MC camera on Sunspot AR2529 using Baader solar film white light filter. Nice to see sum detail coming through with a faster frame rate camera, although…
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General Thomas P. Stafford is a veteran NASA astronaut who flew in space 4 times and in 4 different spacecraft, completing 6 rendezvous, orbited the moon and accumulated 507 hours in space.…
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My image of the Leo Triplet was taken over several nights, stacking Luminance, Red, Green and Blue data together for this final image. The Leo triplet is a collection of galaxies approximately…
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The King in the car park, what a way to be remembered, as if your reputation wasn’t bad enough already. King Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485,…