Real children have died in Southport, Gaza and Ukraine. Real parents are grieving.

This is exactly the same as the fictional murder of the innocents by Herod.

It is no time for trite platitudes. But don’t worry, the Invisible Magic Friend suffers with you. Doing what he always does.

https://mega.nz/file/4zt2lQQQ#_SNy4gwu2rLrCAQM90MSYpBXm6vQgySS_dzTmmQThbs

Most of the interesting stuff is either too low, or behind trees, or too faint for my telescope. T Corona Borealis still hasn’t gone bang.

My usual way to take photos is to try and get a few hours sleep and then get up about midnight, but this doesn’t work for T Cor Bor any more. By 1am it’s behind my neighbour’s apple tree and out of sight. So I’ll have to start staying up late, or at least trying to, if I’m going to catch it going nova.

Moon was up a couple of nights ago.

And on the plus side, Andromeda is beginning to rise in the east. In a couple of months time it will be in the southern sky and I might get some decent pictures of it. At the moment, this is the best I can do.

Got bored and decided to stack a couple of images of the beautiful orange-blue double star, Albireo in Cygnus.