Steve's Place

I do need to get a hold of my hobbies, I have far too many. However, Amateur Radio contesting I do enjoy immensely. Results from last Octobers contest have just been released – happy with this 🙂

It has been an incredible journey so far in this new hobby of metal detecting. I’ve been fortunate to meet some fabulous people, supported a local charity (Yorkshire Air Ambulance) and have been incredibly lucky with some of the finds discovered. Here is a photo of a few treasures unearthed …

Live stream of the Scorpion Cluster (M52) and Bubble Nebula (NGC7635) in the constellation of Cassiopeia taken a few minutes ago using a Vaonis Vespera II and running the Singularity app directly from the PC.

I lovely few hours metal detecting earlier this morning on a permission in North Yorkshire.

Just taken delivery of a Vaonis Vespera II with a full set of filters (CLS, Solar and Dual band) this will be great for local outreach events. First images look very promising indeed !

Two Roman coins and a medieval button !!

To view “live” weather data from Muston click WEATHER STATION

Well, I have started to do some video blogs on YouTube – more a case of if you can’t beat em, join em !!! I have put some metal detecting Vlogs up already but I will be adding some astronomy, wood turning, photography, ham radio, air rifle target shooting, gardening and probably some others to mix it up a bit. I have after all got a few hobbies. Please feel free to check out the channel @CosmicDigs

Well, today might be Friday 13th but there was nothing unlucky with todays metal detecting. Three coins found, a toasted “likely” Victorian penny, then a George V silver sixpence but what happened next sent shivers down the spine. My first gold coin. An Edward III gold quarter noble (1361~1369) See the video on YouTube