Steve's Place

I had the greatest pleasure in delivering my Astronomy talk and Ascension island talk to Ashington Photography Club a few night ago. Today, I received some lovely feedback from the club chairman. It is always great to share a subject you are passionate about by means of a presentation and hearing feedback like this just makes it all so worthwhile. Dear Steve, I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to take a moment to sincerely thank you for…

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The Rosette Nebula together with the open cluster (NGC2244) is in the constellation of Monoceros. The emission nebula is approximately 5,200 light years away. Photograph was taken just now using a smart telescope. The Vaonis Vespera II using the Singularity app running on the pc (using an Android emulator).

Well, after a loose scope on the gun rail, tightened it up and resighted the rifle – results were quite pleasing – Weihrauch HW100S and Falcon T50i scope 🙂

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.