Some sort of Audi TT at Aston Hall……
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Lovely day here but been grass cutting and other jobs so no car run or bike ride. On the plus side, I always enjoy views from our upstairs - north/north west to Lammermuir hills and south/south west over Tweed valley and Cheviots - glorious in today’s sunshine.
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It’s doing all right for 230,000 miles…
A lot of it disappeared though!!!
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Class! 
One of these cost 100K and is supposed to be fun. The other cost 11K and is massive fun. Guess which is which ??
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One has also got awfully big over the years… 
Had one on the drive here the other week. Big now, but good grief it goes well!!!
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Nice, looking at the top photo looks like Auriga and the ‘kids’; the trio top right hand corner of Auriga. One of those is an eclipsing binary with a period of 20 something years. I remember in 2009 time on of the ‘kids’ was dimmer, as it must have been mid ‘eclipsing’ (one passing in front of the other).
Gemini beneath Auriga with Jupiter lower down.
Bottom photo Orion, and the Hyades above it.
Great photos.
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ND12!
Thanks for this!! My knowledge is rusty in the extreme! I think I can see Pleiades top right!
I might venture out tonight if the stars are visible!
Ofiaich
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Yes, if you follow the top right hand corner of Orion upwards, you see an on-its-side ‘V’ shape of stars. That’s the Hyades cluster. Follow on up in the same direction you’ve got the Pleiades cluster, as you mentioned. The Pleiades are about 50 million years old (nothing in astronomical terms). It’s been said that the Dinosaurs would have ‘saw’ the dust cloud in the area which eventually gave birth to those Pleiades.
Nice moon shot too. Shows the boundary line between daylight and light well. Technically called, of all things ‘the terminator’.
ND12!
Thanks! Very interesting! I think now is the time to see the Orionid meteor shower.
The moon photograph was taken with my Sony a6400 and Sony E 70-350mm lens. The stars with my Sony Xperia 1vi mobile phone. I have tried to line the phone up with Celestron 25x70 binoculars with limited success…. I get asked every Christmas about a present! So I will think about something not tooooo big to view the solar system,
Thanks again,
Ofiaich 
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My sister had a Porsche for a while and after driving it I’d rather have my Mazda.
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Eocene period Sand Tiger Shark teeth - circa 45 million years old. Found on the beach at Bracklesham Bay, West Sussex - I was meant to be sailing nearby but it was too rough to go out! The larger tooth is almost perfect and had probably been washed out the day I found it as there’s no damage from rattling up and down the beach. The pen is for scale.
From the link below - the sea erodes exposures of fossil bearing clay (mostly offshore), formed during the Eocene epoch around 46 million years ago. Each day, as the tide retreats, a variety of fossils can be found deposited on the sand, including: bivalve and gastropod shells, shark and ray teeth, corals and many other marine fossils - www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/bracklesham-bay/
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I, for one, welcome our A.I. overlords….
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