A collection of images as apart of an adapting piece of work appreciating the night sky and its constantly unique moments local to me...
Perseid meteors in Dorset.
Perseids occurs as Earth passes through a cloud of dust from surrounding comets. This dust collides with the atmosphere, lights up and leaves a fantastic show of trails which scars the night sky.
Shifting Moonlight, Kynance Cove.
Such a surreal view of Kynance can be seen from 3-4am. As the moon begins setting a large aura of orange tint covers the landscape as a shift in brightness signifies the start of moonset.
Comet A3 and the Milky Way, Dorset.
C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) is a comet from the Oort cloud discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China on 9 January 2023 and independently found by ATLAS South Africa on 22 February 2023. The comet passed perihelion at a distance of 0.39 AU on 27 September 2024, when it became visible to the naked eye.
The Oort cloud, sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud, is theorized to be a vast cloud of icy planetesimals surrounding the Sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 AU. The concept of such a cloud was proposed in 1950 by the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, in whose honor the idea was named.
The Oort cloud, sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud, is theorized to be a vast cloud of icy planetesimals surrounding the Sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 AU. The concept of such a cloud was proposed in 1950 by the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, in whose honor the idea was named.
Hunters Moon Trail, Corfe Castle, Dorset.
Drone Light Painting, Falmouth.
