A picture post of Launceston and beyond
A night out with the Tamar Valley Astronomy Group. The last meet up at Clarendon was for this photographer the best night for viewing the skies to date the stars were literally like diamonds as so many songs have sung. We saw shooting stars, asteroids and a milky way that stretched from horizon to horizon…
When ones partner takes an interest in a subject invariably I become involved at some level such is the case with astronomy. My nearest and dearest has had a bubbling under the surface interest for several years a few apps and the odd book only served to propagate this interest to a higher intensity until a few weeks ago when a decision was made to purchase a telescope.
A few days later the object of a long desire arrived and a few days later the Tamar Valley Astronomy Group was contacted. The date was set to go to a meeting under the stars at Clarendon Homestead. Clarendon is a country home in the grand neo classical style. Once the home of a well to do farmer, built in the nineteenth century its now owned by the national trust and presents a stunning forground to an equally stunning view of the milky way. I have to say its a very long time since I have seen the sky at night so clearly and this is one of the very first group of astro photographs I have captured. Its a peculiarity that in all of the years that I have been using a camera this sector of the craft is new to me. So much still to learn…