Vaughan Sydenham

Father, Platelet Donor, Trekker, Aspiring Astrophotographer, Optimist, Pilgrim and Thwarted Astronaut!

"e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle"

[Vaughan Sydenham @Sydenham007]

Wonderful Nepal - where mountains touch the sky!

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Vaughan Sydenham @Sydenham007]

#caminoportuges following the Littoral, Coastal, Central and Espiritual routes to SdC

#caminodesantiago

[Vaughan Sydenham @Sydenham007]

Camino Portugese Day 1 - Porto to Matosinhos

#caminoportugese #caminodesantiago

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A skyful of galaxies far, far away imaged from my back garden

#astrophotography #astronomy

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The Leo Quartet from my back garden

#astrophotography #astronomy

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M63 The Sunflower Galaxy imaged from my back garden

#astrophotography #astronomy

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NGC 4465 The Needle Galaxy from my back garden

#astrophotography #astronomy

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The One Tree - Cleeve Common

#cotswolds

[Vaughan Sydenham @Sydenham007]

NGC 3184 The Little Pinwheel Galaxy and friends from my back garden

PGC 2181848 (seen just right of centre) is 1.26 billion years distant and moving away from us at 1\10th the speed of light!
#astrophotography #astronomy

[Vaughan Sydenham @Sydenham007]

ARP 273 The Rose Galaxy. c300 million light years from my back garden.

#astrophotography

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Hill Top

#wotton #landscapephotography

[Vaughan Sydenham @Sydenham007]

Last night's Moon from my back garden
#Moon #Astrophotography

[Vaughan Sydenham @Sydenham007]

A field of Oaks

#trees

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NGC 2264 The Cone nebula and Christmas Tree cluster from my back garden.

#astrophotography #astronomy

[Vaughan Sydenham @Sydenham007]

M33 The Triangulum Galaxy from my back garden

#astrophotography

[Vaughan Sydenham @Sydenham007]

M45 aka The Pleiades or Seven Sisters from my back garden

#astrophotography

[Vaughan Sydenham @Sydenham007]

NGC 281 aka The Pacman nebula from my back garden

#astrophotography

[Vaughan Sydenham @Sydenham007]

IC5146 aka The Cocoon Nebula

#astrophotography

[Vaughan Sydenham @Sydenham007]

@smileviviann Nature sure is amazing🙂

[Vaughan Sydenham @Sydenham007]

Wood Blewit or Amethyst Deceiver?

#MushroomMonday #Mushroom

[Vaughan Sydenham @Sydenham007]

@OurScapes Thank you