I Caught a Glimpse of Orion Last Night…
…and he was high in the sky, which reminded me of one of the simplest and most beautiful of natural navigational celestial techniques. Orion is…
Tag: moon
Tonight’s Mad Full Moon
If you are feeling peculiar then it is probably best not to venture outside tonight. The gravitational pull of the full moon’s alignment with the…
Contrails and Crescents
Venus and Sirius both beamed at me this morning during my pre-dawn shiver outside. The aircraft were painting a pink path to the continent to…
Soles and Souls
On Saturday I was invited to give an introductory natural navigation course on one of the walks organised by Louise Gorst. Louise has been leading…
Moon and Jupiter in Conjunction
This slightly arty (read – bad!) photo from last night shows an overexposed moon, but just below and to the left you can hopefully make…
Equinox Shadows
An engaging group for the Beginner’s Guide to Natural Navigation course at the Royal Geographical Society yesterday. Diverse in age and interests as always. When…
Happy Equinox
At eighteen minutes past ten tonight, neither the north pole nor the south will be pointing towards or away from the sun and the sun…
Cloudy Full Moon
This is the full moon from two nights ago, rising amongst the clouds. The picture was taken at about 11 o’ clock and so we…
