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Arurora Borealis – Southrern Iceland, March 2023 Some processing shows good detail of the Milky Way but at ISO 6400 is too noisy10 x 60 sec @ ISO 3,200Aurora Borealis off the north Norwegian coast February 2017Now you don’t!Aurora Borealis off the north Norwegian coast February 2017Bryce Canyon at Sunset Point by Night Canon 700D + Sigma 10mm Wide-angle lens | 15 secs @ ISO 3,200 | 13th April 2016Monument Valley at Night: Mulitple stacked shots + sidereal tracking results in better sky but blurred landscape. Canon 700D & 10mm Sigma wide-angle lens | 20 x 15 secs @ ISO 6,400Monument Valley by Night: order of buttes same as daytime photo above. Canon 700D + 10mm Sigma wide-angle lens | 20 x 15 secs @ ISO 6,400 | 10th April 2016Moon fly-byEarth’s Junkyard Computer-generated image of objects and debris currently being tracked orbiting Earth; it’s the stuff we can’t see or track that is most worrying!ISS Overhead viewISS Western view: 6 minute transit from West to East at 850Night sky panorama from Fairvale Observatory + obstacles: the tree on the left is very large +200 year-old copper beech, the coniferous trees due south are closer to the property boundary – thus increasing their impact on seeing. The red line on the left approximately marks the East and the central red line is the Meridian.Taken this morning, the contrails over Fairvale Observatory make a striking picture but, together with other pollution are having a significant impact on seeing conditions here at the moment.ISS flies over Fairvale Observatory 24th December 2015Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko close-up taken from the Rosetta spacecraft, September 2014ISS track intersected by a passing aircraftJoan and his observatory in La Palma, March 2014