Astronomy Picture of the Day

Amazing image Anthony,
How did you manage to get all those white balloons flying in formation like that :lol:

Very clever!

Gents,

Many thanks for the kind words. I am desperately waiting for the weather to improve so that I can get back to my deep-sky work and especially some seasonal targets which will be out of season shortly.

Merry Xmas to all of my buddies here on Irish Astronomy and all the best for the New Year!

Even me?

Yeah, you too! It is a good thing we are so far apart or, otherwise, we would have been a very bad influence on each other. :lol:

Hi all,

I got the APOD book for Christmas, its like a calendar with 365! pictures in it and descriptions and Anthony's picture is also in the book. Well done

Neill

Hi all,

I got the APOD book for Christmas, its like a calendar with 365! pictures in it and descriptions and Anthony's picture is also in the book. Well done

Neill,

It is a really good book with lots of thought-provoking photos. I am fortunate to have three such photos in the book.

Anyway, I am delighted with the weather at this moment and the predictions for tonight. Once the moon is out of the way around 01:30 AM local time, off we go for 4.5 hours of M81 .....