Arwen's meanderings

Hi everyone and welcome to my dinghy cruising blog about my John Welsford designed 'navigator' named Arwen. Built over three years, Arwen was launched in August 2007. She is a standing lug yawl 14' 6" in length. This blog records our dinghy cruising voyages together around the coastal waters of SW England.
Arwen has an associated YouTube channel so visit www.YouTube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy to find our most recent cruises and click subscribe.
On this blog you will find posts about dinghy cruising locations, accounts of our voyages, maintenance tips and 'How to's' ranging from rigging standing lug sails and building galley boxes to using 'anchor buddies' and creating 'pilotage notes'. I hope you find something that inspires you to get out on the water in your boat. Drop us a comment and happy sailing.
Steve and Arwen

Saturday, 5 March 2022

Some recent astronomy whilst waiting for some safe sailing weather

Getting ready for a busy night of astrophotographing

A recent effort from the back garden in suburban light conditions on M45 Pleiades 

My very first effort on the Leo Triplet of galaxies, some 35 million light years away from our planet

Down at the local beach car park with all the equipment ready to go

My first effort at the Orion horsehead nebula. Getting the photo is the easy bit; processing it to draw out the detail and colours - that is indeed a very dark art

Another shot of the Orion nebula in the bottom right and the horse head nebula in the upper left at the lower end of Orion's belt

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