We were on holiday in Sweden this week and re-listened to the excellent “great Northern War” series on RIH. @TheRestHistory Imagine my joy at finding this 1916 Swedish history volume in our hotel room, complete with bear hunting and Chas XII!!!

The snowdrops are here!! This is two weeks earlier than I’ve ever seen them in Yorkshire!! @YorksWildlife

The Aurora is out tonight. The only Christmas lights you’ll ever need… Here’s a view from our village.

Evening light around Howsham. @WeatherWolds @Yorkshire2018

UK #hoverfly experts! is this volucella zonaria? I had to rescue it from a couple of colleagues who thought it was hornet and had “plans” for it. @YorksWildlife

Nearly time to pack up the telescope for the summer, but here is the Leo triplet of galaxies from last night. This little family of galaxies is 35 million light-years away, and receding fast as the universe expands.

#Scarborough castle earlier today. The view from #Cloughton Wyke.

Today’s partial eclipse from Yorkshire. 5 minutes ago.

“Autobahn” is officially my funeral music. The album version. All of it. Hopefully in fifty years or so. This looks like a very good edition to me… @ElectronicMagUK

Moss landscape in the early spring sunshine.

Having fun with a new lens for my telescope. Focal reducers let you take wider field views with a telescope - great for the big gas clouds like these ones…

Six days later than last year, but they are here!! @WeatherWolds @YorksWildlife just near @howsham_mill

A short display of the #AuroraBorealis for New Year’s Day. The clouds have drawn in now, but it was an excellent naked-eye display while it lasted. #yorkshirewolds #howsham.

Finally! A clear sky that did not conflict with an early start, an evening commitment or a pile of marking. Jupiter at 7.00pm last night, glorious in the eastern sky after sunset.

It’s in the trees! It’s coming!! If you are in the Malton area, avoid picking up any bits of paper with runes written on them this weekend. #mrjames

Ashen light, bouncing off the sunlit part of the Earth to the east of Europe and lighting up the Moon’s night side. If people lived up there, they would call it Earthshine probably.

Shot on an iPhone from a moving high-speed train on the east coast mainline north of Newcastle. It’s going to take me ages to get the best out of this amazing system.

A contrailly day over @boothamschool. I think I might have just invented the word contrailly. Call the @ENGDictionaryOx !!!

The #moon and #mars tonight…