Comet Tsuchinshan earlier in the Autumn, viewed from Galloway in South West Scotland, where our skies are very dark, but often cloudy..

It’s not been a great autumn for viewing the night sky, with long periods of thick cloud obscuring some exciting events.. I was lucky on a couple of occasions to get stunning views of Comet Tsuchinshan, this one on the 19th of October.

In the forest: the smouldering wreckage of a completely gutted building with a red fire truck parked nearby. Credit: Ayrshire Post

A wooden building with a telescope dome in the snowy hills at night. Up above the sky is full of stars including the famous constellation of Orion. Credit: Dave Dubya, Scottish Dark Skies Observatory

A building on fire at night with smoke billowing out and hot flames. Credit: Danny Cameron

🔊 Exciting news! The 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish #DarkSky Observatory will live again! We were all so upset when it burnt to a cinder back in 2021, but yesterday we bought the land for its new home, deep within the Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park! 🧵1/3 🧪🔭 #astrophotography

This is fantastic news!

Amazing! We were so excited about Comet Tsuchinshan this Autumn we forgot how cloudy it can be in Scotland, however, the sky did clear on a couple of occasions..