Thank you

@friel.bsky.social

Hello John

Please can you add me to the Naturalist community contributors list on Bluesky.

Interests are Lepidoptera (ex County recorder) and recently started recording wild plants.

Thanks

Martyn

Thank you. Pretty sure that it is Shepherds Purse, (Capsella bursa-pastoris). Quite common around here.

Out for a nice walk this morning doing my #bsbi 100 plant challenge. Mainly interested in the urban vagabonds that lurk in pavements, kerbs and walls. However this walk took me more rural to a small industrial area. New one to me was field horsetail. A bit unexpected.
VC58
#botany
#wildflower

Not much in the trap last night. Very cool. 10/4 VC58 Nantwich
Highlight was 3 Brindled Beauties.

#teammoth

After a break of several years, I have made a new UV LED Skinner style trap and started recording again. Quite impressed with the performance. 18/13 last night. The highlights were a Chocolate Tip (new one for me), Streamer and a gorgeous Swallow Prominent.
#teammoth #moth #team-moth

Thanks Jo.
I'll gave to go and check what photos I took. I thought it was shepherd's purse as well but I don't recall seeing the heart shaped seed pods.

Can you help me identify this please? South Cheshire, 9th March 2026. #WildflowerID

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A well thought through article.

The magnetogram showing the CME impact at approximately 2026-01-19 19:20UT. #astro

Aurora visible here last night. The magnetogram shows the time of the CME impact and the video was captured by my NW facing meteor camera. A fast time lapse (sadly in mono) from 22:00 to 23:00. #astro

That's beautiful, nicely understated.

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It was an all night stack, about 13 hours total. At least 300 frames in the stack.

Quadrantids on Saturday Night were pretty impressive. This is from my NW facing Camera RMS UK00DE from South Cheshire. Ignore the aircraft trails, the software does. #astro #meteor

Looks lovely in colour, something that a minion image just can't convey. Here is my mono image, a stack of 100 x 30 second exposures

Just an amateur astronomer. Very active. Member of the BAA. I build a lot of my own stuff. I am a STEM Ambassador, I take astronomy into schools.

Very impressive. I really like those

Jupiter - last night - 20251219 - 20:53. Seeing 3 and eventually dewed out. #astro #jupiter Edge11HD and ZWO ASI 224MC Camera.

Year end #SolarCan time. This makes it look like we have had a better autumn than we have really had. #astro #solar

Yes

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You may be right. My thoughts are that meteor trails fade in gradually to a max then fade out again rapidly. Satellite trails cut in/out far more abruptly.

Beautiful image but that looks like a satellite trail. Intrusive light pollution

I have two cameras here in Cheshire and captured almost 1000 meteors on Friday evening. Mind blowing

B&W image of Geminid meteors showing as different intensity and length streaks of light plus star trails around the pole in the background and lights from distant cars along the horizon. Over 200 captured

Radiant map of the Geminids showing 245 blue streaks captured by one camera on 2025-12-12 coming from one point, the radiant of the meteor shower

The Geminids are already firing and the peak should be tonight (14 Dec), clouds permitting. The Moon is kindly hiding too. These are a few from Friday night. Capturing 200+ in each of our cameras overnight (we have 17 in the Society). 🔭

A few aircraft trails but they just happen to be in the camera frame when a meteor was detected. The very bright meteor in the second image does not appear to be a geminid, probably a sporadic.

#meteors #geminids #astrononomy

Geminids meteor shower peaking tonight. 928 meteors captured last night by my two Global Meteor Network RMS Meteor Cameras here in South Cheshire. Total blown my last overnight count be about 800!

New evidence confirms Yorkshire North Sea asteroid impact - BBC News Geologists say an asteroid hit the North Sea near Yorkshire more than 43 million years ago.

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New evidence confirms Yorkshire North Sea asteroid impact - BBC News