Here's #Venus again #tonight but my attention was also drawn to some of the faint stars around it. At about the 10:30 position is #PsiSagittarii which has an #ApparentMagnitude of 4.85 at a distance of nearly 300 #LightYears. The other one which is currently closer to the #planet and at about the 9:30 position is #HIP94434 with an apparent magnitude of 5.75 and is about 1700 light years distant. Thanks to #Stellarium for providing the data. It's amazing that such dim stars can be seen with a non-specialist #lens and #camera.

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It has been rather gloomy and grey all day and it's just starting to clear up just in time for sunset which means another frosty night is coming up Still, the #clouds look good as they begin breaking up.

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Here is another #photograph of the #Night-time view which is in #focus. Exposure time is again 5 s.

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I'm experimenting with #night-time #LongExposures. Still trying things out and sometimes, even failures can give rise to interesting results. Here, for example is an #Out-of-focus shot with an exposure time of 5 s. Of course you may have a differing opinion of the #photograph and that's fine with me.

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It's a clear sunny #morning today. The #Moon can be seen in its #WaningGibbous #Phase in a #cloudless blue #Sky along with the sun-drenched horizon.

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Another #night and another #photograph of #Jupiter. This time you can three of its four big #Moons (they are #Ganymede, #Callisto and #Europa).

I've also included the #snapshot from #Stellarium so you can see the names of each.

If you compare tonight's #image with the #photograph from 11 days ago, you can see how much Jupiter has moved with respect to the background starts of #Capricorn. Planets literally are wanderers.

Of course, the real question is this: Is Stellarium a good model of reality or is reality a good model of Stellarium...

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Here is this #evening's colourful #sunset.

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In the early #evening a few minutes ago, the setting #Venus (sometimes called the #EveningStar) was bright near the #SouthWest #Horizon. It is currently is #Sagittarius and if you look closely, you can see #PhiSagittarii to the left and #LambdaSagittarii to the right of it. Exposure time: 0.3 s, ISO 250, focal length 220 mm, Aperture f/5.6.

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Some #websites are informative, others are #colourful, yet others are traps. This #spider's #web fits into the last two categories for unwary #insects. Joking aside, I was looking for something in the garage and saw this web with the #Sun shining through it. The #colours are what struck me; how the silk #refracts #sunlight into the colours of the #rainbow.

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My wife has honed her innate talent for #sourdough #bread making over the past few years. She can make many varieties with her starter and has opened a #microbakery business and is delivering locally to several customers now. Naturally, we only eat bread that she makes in the house too.

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Good morning all. The #undulating #clouds on this bright #Autumn #day look interesting. You can tell from the spatial oscillation the temperature gradient is not uniform and the #atmosphere is not quite settled. It makes a pretty pattern, though.

Several #gulls are #flying around and here's one #gliding.

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A #cloudy night but the #Moon is still shining through although highly diffused by atmospheric moisture. So, although in a clear sky, the exposure time would be a small fraction of a second to get the surface features clearly, here it was 1 s. I like the haziness of this #photograph, which is what I was deliberately looking for.

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I think of myself as a hobbyist #photographer interested in many things, including #astronomy and sometimes I get lucky. Tonight, for example, I noticed #Jupiter was close to the #Moon and so I got my #tripod out and tried to #photograph the pair. Currently, both are in #Capricorn and to get both, one needs a longish exposure. Here I used 2 s. This of course means that the Moon's features can't be seen as the lit surface is #overexposed but you can see its unlit side too.

The very nice thing about this image is that you can actually see Jupiter's four largest satellites too, so you could say that the photograph actually shows five #moons in total. Jupiter is forming a triangle here with #DenebAlgedi (bottom left) and #Nashira (bottom right)

By focusing around Jupiter itself, you can see its moons much better. From left to right, you can see #Europa, #Io, #Ganymede and #Callisto. The three #stars forming a diagonal line are, respectively, 45, 44 and 42 #Capricorni (left to right).

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Last #harvest of #2021. Here are the last #apples from the #AppleTree for this year. Much more than I expected -- there were 117 in this last batch, including all sizes, some infested with #worms but I reckon there's about three months' worth of supply here.

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Earlier this afternoon, I posted a #photograph of a #web. It was a bit damp and wet then but the #Sun is out now and the #spider (or #WebDeveloper?) is waiting at the centre. Here are two angles I took #pictures from. The markings on the spider's body are wonderful.

Oblique and approximately the same as the one with the web alone.

Approximately normal to the plane of the web.

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#Autofocus is not necessarily your friend. To get this #Spider's #Web to appear in a #photograph, you can't rely on the camera's ability to #focus as the subject is much too fine; it always picks up the background. By switching to good old fashioned #ManualFocus, you can choose which element to home in on. I've seen the spider which owns this #website over a few days but it was probably sheltering from the light rain that is falling. If a bird had taken it, I suspect that it would have wrecked the web. I'll see if I can get a #picture of it later.

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Two #moons tonight, or rather the same #Moon but with different #exposure times. The first is darker with a faster shutter speed. It looks a bit more moody and atmospheric.

The second is a longer exposure and I think also better focused (both done manually) and so is brighter and sharper.

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Above us are two #AirCorridors, one running #East-West and the other #North-South. At #sunset the #contrails are illuminated by the low #Sun and it makes them look brilliant.

The sunset itself was colourful at the moment I caught it.

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This morning around #sunrise I saw this view looking #East (obviously) and it was worth delaying my departure to work for a few minutes to take in this beautiful scene. I particularly like how the vivid colour of the #orange, #pink and #yellow #clouds contrast with the #silhouette of the #trees in the foreground.

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#Rainbows often appear most vivid when contrasted with dark #clouds in the background but this morning, you could see it in front of bits of blue #sky too.

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