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The partially- and totally-eclipsed moons do not in any useful respect resemble a duck. Which is a pity, since I know that I have the kit to take quite good pictures of ducks.

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Poll On the boundaries of words

These are all from my recent trip to the mountains near Cortina d'Ampezzo; I took the top one, the other three were taken by other people on the trip, one of whom was a designer from Dyson with a fancy retro camera (Fuji X100S) and a really good eye. You will already have seen them on my Facebook but I appreciate some people do not Facebook.


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I know several of my friends are coming over to Amsterdam for this; I've been to it today and might as well report ( Read more... )

This is another spiral galaxy, just short of edge-on to us, with a very prettily-placed band of dust in the plane of the galaxy - you can see that the nucleus is on the top side ( Read more... )

This is a starburst galaxy in Ursa Major; it's a spiral galaxy, viewed edge-on, with an enormous cloud of dust in front of it ( Read more... )

This is the twenty-inch Newtonian reflector at the Centre for Observational Astronomy in the Algarve, where I have just spent five nights


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The total amount Race For Life has ever raised would pay the NHS's drugs bill for a fortnight ( Read more... )