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"Around 35,000 street lights will be switched off in Cornwall, more than half of the entire street lighting in the county." From: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/cornwall-to-switch-off-half-of-its-street-lights/ar-AA1l6IGT?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=c63e1b90d65049edba978ad1781df12a&e...

Double "WOW"

Green with envy

Love the colour palette
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Wow! Great stuff
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David, Excellent for a single frame
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David, you have my sympathy and I totally agree with your last line. I do wonder what we would do with limitless fusion energy - power limitless (in)security lights I suspect!

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By Jove. Lovely image.
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Nicely done!
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Nice image Brian. Do you upscale your images in processing?

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Passing cloud and a milky sky reducing contrast meant that my first sight of Venus was at 10.55UT when well clear of the Moons dark limb using binoculars.

Nice image, Jeff

Super!

Thanks Cliff.

It seems rather strange to see spots numbered as low as AR486, now we are used to seeing AR3000+. Time flies!

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Todays Spaceweather.com recalls the Halloween Solar Flares of late October 2003 which significantly affected Earth satellites. The culprit was AR486 , I recall I imaged this beauty (beasty) with my 102mm refractor and Toucam webcam : Sun 20031026_AR484-AR486 composite.jpg (The main image was recorde...

Lovely image Jeff.
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