Andy

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Brown autumn leaves scattered across wooden decking, glistening with morning dew in the sunlight.
Partial solar eclipse from South Wales today
A landscape with green and pink aurora visible on the horizon
The image shows me holding a packaged toy of the robot V.I.N.C.E.N.T. (Vital Information Necessary Centralised) from the film The Black Hole. The toy features V.I.N.C.E.N.T.’s distinctive red, silver, and yellow design with cartoonish eyes. The packaging is creatively shaped like the character, complementing the retro, sci-fi aesthetic. In the background, a blurred Christmas tree with warm glowing lights adds a festive touch to the scene.
A SHO palette (Hubble palette) edit of the Orion Nebula (M42), captured using a Canon 7D. The image features vibrant tones of orange, blue, and white gas clouds, with intricate details of interstellar dust and bright star clusters.
A close-up view of a castle’s gothic architecture, illuminated in purple and blue lighting at night. The night sky is filled with stars, with two beams of light extending diagonally upward, intersecting with the starry backdrop.
My CEM26 star tracking mount visibly covered in dust, with cables connected, sitting unused on a tripod. The setup reflects a state of disuse, suggesting it has not been used for an extended period. Spoiler alert: It hasn’t!
The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters or Messier 45 (M45), is a famous open star cluster located in the constellation Taurus. While it is primarily known as a star cluster, it is surrounded by a reflection nebula. This reflection nebula is composed of interstellar dust that reflects the light from the hot, young stars in the cluster. The blue color of the nebula is due to the scattering of shorter-wavelength blue light, much like the Earth’s sky appears blue because of Rayleigh scattering. Interestingly, the nebula was not formed from the same molecular cloud as the stars of the Pleiades. Instead, the cluster is currently passing through a region of interstellar dust, which makes the reflection nebula visible.