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at 6pm last night when we set off out to pickering in the car, it did not look good. when we pulled up in the car park at the hole of horcum, it looked even worse. phone assured us that it would clear up at 9pm and visibility would be excellent but whilst we sat in the car the sky had gone black and it was lashing down. with 3 miles to walk to get to the stones, we were either going for it or going home.

needless to say we bit the bullet and set off in the dark down some tracks david vaguely recalled. it clearly worked out good though since we got there without a single moment of getting lost and also without a single instance of seeing any interesting creatures other than rabbits as dalby is completely devoid of animals, no matter what the forestry commission will have you believe.

pretty much right on cue, the clouds began to part and reveal the stars. the moon was a bit bright as we were really hoping to see the nebular cloud clearly, but the ferocious wind created some really fast moving clouds and the moon, which was unbelieveably bright, provided some really nice sidelighting and backlighting for a couple of shots. we could see a couple of far off thunder storms, probably 100s of miles away.

these were my favourite 4 from the evening. i’m a cloud blur fan. had it not been so cold and so bright we may have done some really long exposures but sitting down and doing nothing for an hour wasn’t a tempting prospect.

the walk back was interesting, especially when we met a farmer while walking across a field at midnight with headtorches. he was pretty friendly though, not friendly enought to offer a lift though.