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Monday's waxing crescent moon over Stonehenge 🤩🌙
08/20/2026

Monday's waxing crescent moon over Stonehenge 🤩🌙

The 2026 Perseid Meteor Shower at Stonehenge ☄️🔥✨Wow, what an amazing 4 nights photographing the best meteor shower of t...
08/20/2026

The 2026 Perseid Meteor Shower at Stonehenge ☄️🔥✨

Wow, what an amazing 4 nights photographing the best meteor shower of the year, in fact it has been the most productive shower i have photographed, new moon period plus the 4 clear nights on the trot made this years spectacular.
I managed around 150 captures from over 8000 photographs :O
This was using 3 cameras for 2 of the nights and 4 for the other 2.

The Perseid's are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle that are usually visible from mid-July to late August. The meteors are called the Perseid's because they appear from the general direction of the constellation Perseus and in more modern times have a radiant bordering on Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis.

The stream of debris is called the Perseid cloud and stretches along the orbit of the comet Swift–Tuttle. The cloud consists of particles ejected by the comet as it travels on its 133-year orbit. Most of the particles have been part of the cloud for around a thousand years. However, there is also a relatively young filament of dust in the stream that was pulled off the comet in 1865, which can give an early mini-peak the day before the maximum shower. The dimensions of the cloud in the vicinity of the Earth are estimated to be approximately 0.1 astronomical units (AU) across and 0.8 AU along the Earth's orbit, spread out by annual interactions with the Earth's gravity.

The shower is visible from mid-July each year, with the peak in activity occurring between 9 and 14 August, depending on the particular location of the stream. During the peak, the rate of meteors reaches 60 or more per hour. They can be seen all across the sky; however, because of the shower's radiant in the constellation of Perseus, the Perseid's are primarily visible in the Northern Hemisphere. As with many meteor showers the visible rate is greatest in the pre-dawn hours, since more meteoroids are scooped up by the side of the Earth moving forward into the stream, corresponding to local times between midnight and noon, as can be seen in the accompanying diagram. While many meteors arrive between dawn and noon, they are usually not visible due to daylight. Some can also be seen before midnight, often grazing the Earth's atmosphere to produce long bright trails and sometimes fireballs. Most Perseids burn up in the atmosphere while at heights above 80 kilometres (50 mi).

Largest Perseid meteoroids have masses of 7 kilograms (15 lb).

So here is the composite that on top of the 4 nights in the field has taken me around 8 hours to put together 🥹
But, totally worth it 🤩

This is not a photo, it's an image with the meteors captured added to an astro image from the night of the peak (composite)

Meteors 150 x 30s F1.4 to F2.8 ISO 800-1000
Sky RGB 6 x 120s F4 ISO640
Sky HA 4 x 180s F4 ISO 1000
Foreground 15s F4 ISO 400 taken mid blue hour

These two photos were taken less than a century apart.In the 1930 image, the Sagrada FamĂ­lia had just four completed tow...
07/26/2026

These two photos were taken less than a century apart.

In the 1930 image, the Sagrada Família had just four completed towers, all belonging to the Nativity Façade. Antoni Gaudí had died only a few years earlier, and much of his vision still existed only in drawings and models.

Now compare it with 2026.

The basilica has grown to 14 completed towers, including the four Evangelist towers, the Virgin Mary Tower, and the towering Jesus Christ Tower, which now rises 172.5 meters (566 feet) above Barcelona.

Look at the very top.

The monumental 17-meter (56-foot) cross—installed in 2026—is something no generation before ours had ever seen. It marked the external completion of the Tower of Jesus Christ exactly 100 years after Gaudí's death and transformed the city's skyline once again.

And the story isn't over.

The final four Apostle towers above the Glory Façade are still to come. When they're finished, the Sagrada Família will finally have the 18 towers Gaudí envisioned more than 140 years ago.

One photo shows GaudĂ­'s dream in its early years.

The other shows just how close that dream has come to becoming reality.

📍Barcelona, Spain
07/26/2026

📍Barcelona, Spain

◦ Location: Sagrada Família, Barcelona, SpainGolden hour changed everything Would you visit it if you had the chance? Ye...
06/29/2026

◦ Location: Sagrada Família, Barcelona, Spain
Golden hour changed everything Would you visit it if you had the chance? Yes or No?

Last nights Waxing Crescent Moon and Pleiades conjunction along with Venus over Stonehenge 🤩😍🌙✨With the forecast saying ...
04/21/2026

Last nights Waxing Crescent Moon and Pleiades conjunction along with Venus over Stonehenge 🤩😍🌙✨

With the forecast saying clouds for this event i really hadn't put a lot of thought into it but as i was out for sunset it looked like they had got the forecast wrong so i raced home and got my gear and headed back out to see what i could get 😁

Canon R5 - Samyang EF 135mm - Sky 1s F2.8 iso 640 - FG 15s F2.8 iso 800

A RAINBOW HALO AROUND THE SUNThe backyard went quiet… then a circle of color appeared where your eyes don’t expect it.Th...
03/26/2026

A RAINBOW HALO AROUND THE SUN

The backyard went quiet… then a circle of color appeared where your eyes don’t expect it.

This happened in a U.S. neighborhood at late afternoon, when tall, bright clouds were drifting across the Sun and the air had just enough fine moisture and thin cloud particles to bend the light. The colored ring is a halo/iridescence effect — sunlight passing through tiny droplets or ice crystals in the thin parts of the cloud layer, spreading the light into a soft rainbow band around the Sun’s glow.

The reason it looks so clean here is the timing: low Sun + thick cloud edges + a thin bright layer in front, making the colors show up like a delicate outline instead of a full rainbow across the sky.

You can see this in anywhere you get tall afternoon clouds after heat and humidity: Florida, Texas, the Southeast

Also common with thin high clouds in the Great Plains and Rockies
Best timing: late afternoon, when the Sun is lower and clouds are building but still letting light through.

🚨 Captured just minutes apart during an INSANE aurora storm over Fairbanks, Alaska…What you’re looking at isn’t edited. ...
03/23/2026

🚨 Captured just minutes apart during an INSANE aurora storm over Fairbanks, Alaska…

What you’re looking at isn’t edited. It’s real.
And it’s one of the rarest aurora formations ever witnessed.

A towering, angel-like figure appeared in the sky — glowing, shifting, almost alive… like a “winged visitation” painted across the stars. 🌌✨

But here’s what makes this even more incredible 👇

💚 The glowing green edges?
That’s oxygen, hit by solar particles 60–150 miles above Earth.

💗 The intense pink and magenta core?
That’s nitrogen — and it only appears during powerful solar storms.

In other words… this wasn’t just beautiful.
It was extremely rare physics happening in real time.

A perfect collision of solar energy, Earth’s magnetic field, and atmospheric chemistry — forming something that looks almost… divine.

Moments like this remind us:
The universe doesn’t just exist… it performs. 🌍⚡

🏆 We Have a Winner — The Best Northern Lights Show Across the U.S. & Canada 🌌A breathtaking wave of aurora borealis swep...
03/22/2026

🏆 We Have a Winner — The Best Northern Lights Show Across the U.S. & Canada 🌌

A breathtaking wave of aurora borealis swept across the skies of the United States and Canada, with Yukon delivering one of the most powerful moments. Rare red and green lights ignited the night like cosmic fire — raw, intense, and unforgettable.

Moments like this remind us how small we are beneath the vast beauty of the universe… yet incredibly lucky to witness it. ✨

Behold the first sunrise of Spring 2026 over Stonehenge ⏳✨Not just a beautiful photo…a 4,500-year-old moment happening r...
03/22/2026

Behold the first sunrise of Spring 2026 over Stonehenge ⏳✨

Not just a beautiful photo…
a 4,500-year-old moment happening right on time.

Today, March 20, the Vernal Equinox arrives—when Earth stands in near-perfect balance. 🌍🌗
Day and night, light and dark… almost equal across the entire planet.

And here? Something extraordinary unfolds.

🏛️ Ancient Precision, Perfectly Timed

As the Sun rises, it doesn’t just light the sky—
it locks into alignment with the Heel Stone, sending a golden beam straight into the heart of the monument.

For a brief moment, the massive stones frame the sunlight like a prehistoric lens—
as if the entire structure was built to capture this exact second.

No modern tools. No technology.
Just human intuition… and a deep understanding of the cosmos.

🌱 A Signal Written in Light

For the people who built this, this wasn’t just beautiful—
it was essential.

This sunrise marked the beginning of the growing season…
a natural reset… a promise that life returns.

And today, thousands of years later,
the same light still finds its way through the stones.

A quiet reminder:
Some connections between Earth and sky never fade.

Happy First Day of Spring 🌸☀️

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