Happy new year to you and yours.  It’s been a year since I started posting on Pana-Vision and while I had a daily photo for quite some time I didn’t keep things going during the summer.  There’s more to life than blogging after all!  I hope to keep posting on a regular basis here but 2009 will be a busy year for me as I’m getting married this year.  Not long to go and too much on the to-do list still!

The photo above is of the occultation of Venus on December 1.  I’m not too pleased with how it came out but I had to shorten the exposure length as anything longer than about 10 seconds was causing a streaming effect where the motion of the moon could be clearly seen.  Anybody got tips for this type of photography?

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We were down in Youghal a few weekends ago enjoying the final warmth that could be squeezed out of Autumn on a fine sunny Sunday when I spotted this bird perched up high.

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