Aurora Over Swinford 13th October 2016 With the Autumn now here we are now entering the Aurora season once again. The Aurora Over Swinford 13th October 2016 wasn’t one I was expecting so soon! NOAA the space weather prediction centre, issued an alert for...
April sunset over Swinford Its time that the weather started to pick up! Here’s a shot I got of an April sunset over Swinford. Photo of the sunset with Neiphen in the background was taken from a usual location I use, the top of the hill in Kilconduff Graveyard....
Aurora over Swinford October 2015 I got another chance to view and photograph the Aurora over Swinford last night, or should I say early this morning! Thanks to Anne Marie for tipping me off about this recent spectacular show of the Northern Lights as there’re...
Well I finally got to see and photograph the Aurora Borealis over Swinford for the first time in real life last night! I’ve only ever see photos of the Aurora, mostly from Scandinavian countries and Northern America & Canada. Sometimes there has been...
The ISS was back over the Irish skies again last week. I managed to get some decent video footage of it again. The first video is from Tuesday night/Wednesday morning from 11.59. The second is from the next night, Wednesday night from 11.06. On Tuesday night the ISS...
ISS Flyover Swinford 8th April 2015 ISS flyover Swinford 8th April 2015 at 21.05 to 21.09. The ISS orbits the Earth in under 2 hours. It travels at a speed of between 17,300 and 17,500 miles per hour and is a distance of 200 miles from the Earths surface. The...
Autumn sunset – project 52 #35 It looks like the summer is back again, we have had some brilliant days here in the west, with more to come for the next few days! Unfortunetly the months are pushing on and the evenings are getting shorter. Photo: f/7.1, 1/30sec,...
Dockers Monument Limerick – Project 52 #34 We were in the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick last Saturday for the All Ireland semi final replay between Mayo and Kerry, which we lost, (photos of the match are in the Mayo Football Photos page). Walking back into Limerick...
Brilliant night-time photo of Ireland taken recently from the International Space Station (ISS) It’s not very often that Ireland is completely cloud free with the added bonus of the “Northern lights” also visible! {Photo credit NASA}...
Some brilliant views of lower Manhatten as the sun was setting. I got this shot looking over “Ground Zero”. I can’t wait to get back to New York to get photos of the stunning street scape at dawn/dusk. (Forgot to change time on camera, set to Irish...
A rare shot to get, made more difficult with the fog! Taken with my 300mm lens, f/5, 1/1250 sec, iso 3200, had to focus on manual for the first time! You can just see Jupiter to the left, it looks a lot brighter to the naked eye. For anyone that can’t see...
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