James Fawcett

@james4cet.bsky.social

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Astronomy & Public Engagement | Coordinating outreach for the Euclid mission in the UK 🛰️ 🔭☄️ | he/him

The Moon lies in the centre of this image, looking bigger than usual and orange in colour due to being close to the horizon. There is a sunset hue of faint blue and even fainter pink in the sky. In the foreground, framing the Moon, is the Victorian front gate of the Royal Observatory.
A view from Holyrood Park, with the foreground trees and buildings silhouetted aside from warmly lit up windows. In the sky, from ground level upwards, we see light pollution, then a stripe of green light, then a blotch of purple light. The plough asterism is visible in the centre of the sky. The sky becomes darker the further up the image we go.
Across the bottom of the photo in the foreground is a red and white scarf which says “LIVERPOOL”. In the background is a street in Liverpool, the Liver Building in view, with the sky a pastel red after red smoke and flares were lit.
A cropped in view of the top of the Liver Building in Liverpool. Above the building is a clear blue sky, with a waxing gibbous Moon in view at the centre of the image.
A selfie of me with Dynamic Earth Science Centre & Planetarium in the background, on a sunny day with some patchy cloud cover.
A view of the night sky from Platform 8 at Edinburgh Waverley station. In the foreground is an Avanti West Coast train carriage, stationary at a brightly lit platform. The background night sky is light polluted, but you can see Mars on the left as a small, bright dot. On the right of the sky is Jupiter as a slightly brighter dot.
A landscape view from Blackford Hill. In the foreground is grass. Towards the centre left of the image is Arthur’s Seat in the distance, above many rows of houses and flats. The Royal Observatory can be seen on the right. A cloudy sky can be seen.
Dynamic Earth Science Centre & Planetarium is seen in the foreground, with the Salisbury Crags behind it. Above the crags is a blue and orange sky as the sun rises.
A view of Edinburgh from Blackford Hill. In the foreground are streets of tenement flats, houses and other buildings. In the distance you see the Salisbury Crags on the left, with Arthur’s Seat on the right. A clear, blue sky lies above as the sun rises in the morning.
A view of the Milky Way, seen as a stripe of light and dust across a completely clear night sky. To the right of the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy can be seen a small smudge.