Sunrise 🌄 to sunset and the perfect start to winter with a subzero day ❄️ exploring the Peak District's moorland nature with a photographer from Kent. The mountain hares played hard to get early on but the warmth of the sun tempted them out for some sunbathing 🐇🌞 Visit Peak District & Derbyshire

Comparing the size of my hand with a mountain hares foot. Do you fancy meeting the #MountainHares this winter? Our #AwardWinning #Experience has been judged by VisitEngland to be one of the #Top3 in England and by Visit Peak District & Derbyshire to be the best experience in the Peak District 🏆🐰

Feeling festive with the Christmas Tree Cluster🎄 Photographed this week during a rare alignment of planets, galaxies & nebulae 😉 This star forming region of ionized Hydrogen (red) & Oxygen (blue) is in the Unicorn 🦄 constellation, 2300 light years away. Visit Peak District & Derbyshire #Astrophotography

The Iris Nebula, a bright reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus, surrounded by brown clouds of interstellar dust. If you'd like to learn how to capture or process images like this let me know. #Astrophotography #DarkSkiesUK #IrisNebula.

Happy #WinterSolstice everyone. The shortest day of the year has arrived and there's not much chance of a sunrise 🌄 so here's a picture from a few years ago.

Merry Christmas everyone 🎄🐰 A huge thanks to all my clients this year for helping to make it our most successful year ever 😁🏆 Hope to see you again in 2024. I'll be back with the Mountain Hares again from the beginning of January 🐇 #MerryChristmas

Flaming Star & Tadpole Nebulae with its two little tadpoles in the constellation of Auriga the Charioteer. The Tadpole Nebula is 12,400 light years away. The tadpoles themselves are actually 90 trillion km long. #astrophotography #Astronomy #FlamingStarNebula #TadpoleNebula

Happy New Year everyone 🥳

#SnowDay Lovely snowy morning in Macclesfield today. BBC Breakfast BBC Weather Watchers

Currently reading -10.2°C in my garden. Perfect night for ice bubbles. #IceBubble #Freezing #Cold BBC Weather Watchers BBC Breakfast

#HappyValentinesDay❤️ Here's a big red heart that I captured above the #PeakDistrict recently called the #HeartNebula. I'll soon be offering #astronomy experiences & #astrophotography tuition. If interested let me know and I can send further details & an introductory offer. Visit Peak District & Derbyshire

You may have noticed I've not been very active recently. In January I was diagnosed with a cancerous melanoma. Luckily I noticed it early, saw a GP & 2 small operations later I've got the all clear 🥳 I'll be back at work from 1st March Check your moles 😉 nhs.uk/conditions/mol…

What are you spending your extra day doing? For me there's nothing better than a hike in my local hills and with a bit of luck some clear skies tonight for some astrophotography. #LeapDay #LeapYear Visit Peak District & Derbyshire

🐰White rabbits 1st of the month. It's #MountainHareDay once again & here in the #PeakDistrict they're being treated to a couple of days of #snow. Join me throughout the rest of March & April for a day with England's only wild mountain hares on our #awardwinning experiences Visit Peak District & Derbyshire

Absolutely fabulous day with the #PeakDistrict #MountainHares yesterday. Also plenty of bird life including #snowbunting #GoldenPlover as well as the usual grouse. Nice that the snow timed it perfectly for my return 🐇🐰🤗❄️ Visit Peak District & Derbyshire

#Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks streaking through the #PeakDistrict sky on Sunday night. Should be looking great over the next moonless week through binoculars, telescope or camera with a 200mm lens or bigger. This is a 1hr total exposure. Visit Peak District & Derbyshire BBC East Midlands The Guardian #Astrophotography

Big reveal time! To coincide with #EnglishTourismWeek24 we're taking you to space with the launch of a 2nd website peakastronomy.co.uk @peakastronomy In addition to our #AwardWinning #walking experiences we're offering #Stargazing and #Astrophotography Visit Peak District & Derbyshire VisitEngland

Welcome to #Spring 🐣🪻 Today is the #SpringEquinox and it's already feeling spring-like and the birds are getting busy. That doesn't mean wintery weather is over, snow ❄️ is forecast for the #PeakDistrict hills at the weekend and into next week. Visit Peak District & Derbyshire

Pictures from this week's #PeakDistrict #MountainHare Experience starring a particularly cute one sleeping on a bed of moss. As well as hares we watched the returning birdlife and the plants & mosses which make this such a special place. Visit Peak District & Derbyshire Peak District NT Moors for the Future

Another nice little #aurora last night and another big solar flare which may hopefully have thrown something in our direction heading here for the weekend.