Recent content by Mark Tooze

Earth and Jupiter are currently at the closest point they will be for the next 10 years - so ideal time for photography. Add a crystal clear night just before midnight yesterday and I managed to get this one:- All 4 Galilean satellites and excellent cloud detail

WHAT A PHOTO!!! So much going on in it!

Also managed to get some photos of Jupiter and all 4 of its Galilean satellites in the last few weeks. Photographing Jupiter is a bit of a dark art (these are taken with a camera and very big lens, not through a telescope) - you have to wait for a moonless, cloudless night otherwise you loose...

Moonset over our snowy Sutton Coldfield garden this morning:- and moon at 3.50am this morning (I had an early start to work today)

Happy Belated Birthday!!!!!

And here is one of last weeks "supermoon" - note the crater detail on the right hand edge:-

Nice sight to get up to this morning - Jupiter (bottom left) and moon close to each other in the dawn sky:-

This picture from 1954 shows the old Municipal Bank building (behind the black car):- The building is still there and has a couple of nice artifacts still on the wall:- It is one of the last old buildings left on that side of the street - but does not look out of place with the modern...

Managed to get a few photos from the car whilst stuck at traffic lights on Saturday - there is hardly anything left now:-

Excellent photos! Amazing to see quite a bit has changed since 2015. Incidentally we went to party in the Cube Hotel last Saturday in the Champagne Room circled below - some of the best views of Birmingham you will ever get!

Yes - in Fawlty Towers she and Basil were discussing how they were ever attracted to each other. Sybil comments "Black Magic my mother says" to which Basil replies "Well she'd know wouldn't she - her and that cat.........."

These are both of Barr St I think.

The taller building is the Gem Building. I knew it well as it used to be the home of M.Y. Darts and I used to work there at weekends when I was much much younger - sweeping up, dying feathers for dart flights and even turning a few darts on the lathes. All of these buildings still exist by the way.

This MAY be Six Ways Aston but I am not 100% sure.......

Got these 2 wartime images - don't know if of any help?