Alistair Hamill
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“The earth is art, the photographer is only a witness.” A Northern Irish landscape photographer trying to witness as much of my wee country's beauty as I can.
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I may have had to shelter by a rock for 15 minutes whilst a hail storm passed today. But it was worth every stinging hit on the face to be greeted by this view as the shower cleared over Binnian. Mammatus clouds: the most dramatic scene I've ever witnessed up the Mournes!
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Orion dances with the Moon above Cavehill, Belfast. This one will need a wee tap or click to open it up in all its glory.
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Above the cloud ... under the stars
Last night on Binevenagh. The temperature inversion locked all the atmospheric guff down low, and the skies above had some of the best clarity I've seen on the island of Ireland. Truly amazing. Tap to expand for the full galactic view!
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This is the kind of view that Friday nights after work should have!
Snowy McArt's Fort, with Belfast way down below, and Orion stalking the skies above...
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When you go to Co Donegal for a few days and it happens to correspond with the most perfect of weather conditions. This is what that looks like.
#Errigal
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Sometimes its about being on top of a mountain standing in the snow. And sometimes it's about standing by the sea looking up at the snow-capped mountains. Either way, we live in the most beautiful of countries!
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It has been such a long time since I last managed to photograph the aurora. But I hit bingo last night at the Giants Causeway. The cloud cleared just in time for me to catch the end of a little sub storm - and to capture some hints of beams on camera!
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When the Milky Way just lines up perfectly for you... (tap to expand)
Standing alone at the iconic Murder Hole beach, Donegal, lit by the Moon just rising to the east, whilst the rest of our galaxy looks on at this beautiful sight.
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The Causeway has been so quiet all summer, due to the lack of overseas tourists visiting. Whilst I've missed having chats there with folks from all over the world, it has meant I've been able to get angles you can't normally take, including this one from last night.
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At long last we had some snow up Cavehill! Winter 19/20 has been decidedly mild so far, but this past week finally brought some snow. And, with the strong winds early in the week, that meant some class snow drifts too. The winds were calm last night - but it was still baltic!
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A little bit of Causeway colour to brighten up a dreary day in Northern Ireland. Tap to expand to see the Sun!
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A Perseid's meteor fireball runs through the heart of the Milky Way on Saturday night at Slieve League, Co Donegal. Great to capture it, especially given the 75% Moon. Tap to expand to see all the star light!
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Quite honestly, I'm a pig. In muck. Portmuck, to be precise. The longest and most intense substorm I've ever witnessed. The sky danced like this in front of my eyes for nearly 40 minutes. I went from dancing and hollering, to a quiet serene calm as I got lost in this display.
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The glorious psychedelic colours of Belfast by night under the fog!
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Back to my happy place last night. All alone, 90 minutes after sunset, as the everlasting twilight glow of June keeps the northern horizon golden all night. If there is a more magical place on this entire planet, I do not know of it. So good to be back!
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It was the aurora substorm that just kept giving tonight! Pillars here, there and everywhere, a double arc rising up into the sky above Slemish. What. A. Night!
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Aurora pillars poking up over the snow-covered ancient volcano of Slemish. Because sometimes it's not just Iceland that is the aurora-filled land of fire and ice...!
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There are only a few weeks in the year when the sun sets far enough to the NW to poke around the headland to pour some golden sidelight onto Kinbane Castle.
And, thankfully, I was able to be here for one of them!
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Three hour drive. One hour hike. Three minutes of light.
Because sometimes that's all you need...
#Donegal
Tap to expand to enjoy the light
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#cometNEOWISE
in the wee small hours of 8 July as seen from Larne, along with some subtle tendrils of noctilucent clouds. This is the best comet I've both observed and photographed. A delight to be chasing this!
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Cloudless nights are few and far between these nights, but the chance of clear skies on Tuesday night was enough to tempt me out in hope. All I needed was 15 minutes of a gap. And - eventually - I got it! This is the Milky Way rising up over Slieve Donard as seen from Tyrella.
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Causeway's Ending
Never have I been able to venture quite so far out towards the end of this part of the Giant's Causeway before. But, when the Atlantic is like a mill pond, and the light from the sun that set 60 minutes before still hangs to the horizon, sometimes you can.
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Good bye those long, lonely years of solar minimum.
Hello two aurora displays in 5 days!!! The chase has well and truly begun!
Slemish, Co Antrim, N. Ireland 3/11/21
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One hour of our planet's rotation, as seen from the Giant's Causeway.
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Something is watching over Carrickfergus Castle. Tap to expand to see what...!
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When you have a buck eijit dog that never stops running around, your chances of getting her to stand still for 15 seconds for a photo at 11.30 pm at the Giant's Causeway are negligible...
But not quite zero!
I've wanted this shot for so long. So good to finally get it!
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A precious little moment of time at the Giant's Causeway.
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Me, on top of Cavehill last Sunday night, gazing down on the fog of Belfast below.
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This time last year I was capturing one of the most beautiful noctilucent cloud displays I've ever photographed. This was at around 3.00 am.
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Afterglow
23.00 hours along the Causeway Coast [tap to expand]
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The last full Moon of the decade, rising above Cluain an Chullinn Wood at the foot of Trassey Track in the Mournes this afternoon.
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Farewell, lovely view...
I still can't believe the decision was made to take the most iconic building built in Belfast in perhaps a century and hide it behind apartments. More green space lost. Lines of sight lost. A very short sighted decision.
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It's not often that us aurora chasers are happy when the Moon's out. But, when the aurora is as bright as this was, and the cloud sweeps past the Moon giving it a wonderful colour glow all of its own, then we're happy enough to see it!
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15 minutes of magic light at golden hour last night at the Giant's Causeway.
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If only this had been my view on Monday morning for the lunar eclipse...!
Tuesday night, up a cold and exhilerating Cavehill, Belfast.
#witns
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A glimpse of the remarkable conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn tonight, two days before their closest pass. You can easily see three of the Jovian moons and, although my zoom lens can't resolve the rings around Saturn, it does have a notable elliptical shape.
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A cheeky wee aurora display under the light of a hundred billion stars last night at the Giant's Causeway. And there was only me there to witness it all!
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Nothing more than the merest hint of aurora last night at the Causeway. But something even more elusive managed to dazzle & entertain me for a good 45 minutes - a glorious Moonbow, draped below the Big Dipper, just poking out from the clouds. Only the second time I've seen this!
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I got aurora at the Causeway last night!
Thick anticyclonic haze & a rising Moon meant that trying to get anything to show on camera was tough. But, the aurora put on one beam for me that was just about bright enough to shine through.
Aurora hunting season 21/22 has begun!
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The Cygnus region of the Milky Way rises above the Giant's Causeway, whilst some bright green airglow lights the sky to the north, and a couple of faint aurora rays reach up into the sky along the horizon. Quite the astrophotography feast last night!
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Just another fabulous location along the sublime Causeway Coast.
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Aurora tonight at Slemish!
@barrabest
@TamithaSkov
@SkyeAuroras
@aurorawatchuk
@TweetAurora
@Aurora_ireland
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On the summit of Slieveloughshannagh, a good three months after I had last stood here. The freedom you feel on top of a mountain is quite unlike any other. Worth the wait - and good to be back!
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That moment when you think the cloud bank on the horizon will block out the rising sun.
And you're gloriously wrong. The light finds a way through & puts on the kind of show that says, 'How dare you doubt me!'
Lake Bled, Slovenia
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How do you possibly convey the sheer scale of a 55 inch size panoramic image of sunset at the Skerries, Portrush on Twitter...?
Not easily, is the answer.
But here's my best attempt!
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When the light breaks through...
The magic of the Causeway cliff top path.
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*Do* look up!
Did anyone else see this wonderful astronomical conjunction in the evening sky tonight?
Top: Jupiter
Moon
Bottom right: Venus
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Last Saturday night's aurora at the Giant's Causeway. After everyone else left, it was just me, the gentle arc of the remains of the amazing aurora show, and the light of a hundred billion stars. And Andromeda galaxy, just turning up for the craic too!
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#HarvestMoon
rise over Bangor, Co Down this evening. It was lovely to have clear skies all the way down to almost the horizon line so we could see the Moon poke its head up in all its full glory.
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Another week, another aurora! I love solar maximum!!
Slemish, Co. Antrim, 21.45 18 Sept 2023
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4 minutes of swirly magic at the Murder Hole Beach.
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A wee alternative view of golden hour at the Causeway Coast.
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Samuel Beckett and the Convention Centre, Dublin. For just a few moments, the ripples on the Liffey stopped, and I managed to get some pretty sweet reflections of these iconic structures.
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After the long years of solar minimum, it's so good to be back in the aurora game in Northern Ireland once again!
It was always going to be a battle with cloud last night, but the aurora put on a dance for us just before the gap closed entirely.
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Throw back to a beautiful night under a hundred billion stars at the Giant's Causeway.
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First proper snow of the season, and I was treated to a few moments of golden light this morning at Cavehill. Bracing and beautiful!
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Another photo from the amazing aurora display of 12/13 September. And a first for me - a beam or blue aurora light (faint, top right)!
This is caused by interaction with nitrogen (the green and red are from oxygen interactions). Delighted to have captured this.
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Mussenden Temple - actually only the second time I've properly photographed here. Pretty staggering, given often I've photographed the rest of the Causeway Coast!
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If you were stuck inside in Belfast today, looking out at the dank, misty conditions outside, this is what was actually above you!
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Happy
#stpatricksday
Time to celebrate with one of this times when the skies above Northern Ireland went aurora green, all by themselves!
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One of my favourite photos I've ever taken in the Mournes. A few minutes of incredible cloud port just after an intense 15 minute hail stone storm.
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Thanks for the incredible response to last night's snowy Cavehill tweet. It has been my most popular tweet to date, with over 1000 likes on Twitter.
If you got a copy of the Belfast Telegraph today, you might have seen it make an appearance in there too. 😃
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A field in Co Down. With a hundred billion stars in the sky above. And a fair dose of cloud. It is Northern Ireland, after all...
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Above a blanket of cotton wool, under the most gentlest of twinkling star light.
Moments of bliss on top of Binevenagh.
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The arc of the Milky Way sweeps above the iconic stone of the Giant's Causeway.
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St Patrick's evening at the Giant's Causeway. Just a few minutes before, the heavens were chucking it down like there was no tomorrow. But I was hoping that it would clear just in time for sunset. And,when it did, all the raindrops acted like prisms to make the light go boom!
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How better to celebrate St Patrick's Day than with a photo of aurora green behind St Patrick's own mountain, Slemish?!
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Chasing after
#Perseids2018
meteors last night. I didn't capture many on camera - perhaps because we were very taken by the beauty of the Milky Way over the
#giantscauseway
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My view in the wee small hours of Christmas Eve 2014. The real lights of Christmas!
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Kinbane Castle, with a few determined sea pinks just about clinging on as we go further and further into June.
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The most amazing aurora in Larne NI tonight around 18.30. Arc still going despite the Moon
@barrabest
@coolfm
@TamithaSkov
@aurorawatchuk
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Simply the summit of one of the most sublime mountains in Ulster - Errigal.
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Some of my favourite photos of 2023.
A photographic thread. 🧵
1/ Jan 23 Snowy Cavehill, with Orion over McArt's Fort.
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Couldn't resist one more quick process from this evening's amazing photoshoot over the fog at Knockagh. This time, into blue hour, the Christmas lights on top of the crane had come on & the docks below began to shine through the fog above, whilst the Mournes look on from behind.
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A few minutes. Sometimes that's all it takes. If you're standing in just the right place waiting for that moment to arrive, that is!
A few moments of spectacular sidelight at the Causeway last night.
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Happy New Year 2021 - may all your skies be clear and full of stars!!
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A subtle sunset on Friday night at the Giant's Causeway bathed the stones in a delicate, diffuse light, accenting these improbable shapes so delightfully.
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The clouds cleared just in time for me to be treated to a lovely wee view of the second aurora substorm tonight. And the moonlight gave a nice wash of light to the foreground.
21.40, Slemish, Co Antrim.
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One minute of light spilling out between a strategically placed gap in the cloud at the Causeway cliffs yesterday evening was all it took for this wee moment of magic!
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The night is not so dark after all...
180 seconds of starlight at the Giant's Causeway last night, using my Star Adventurer tracker, with a little bit of pink diffuse aurora glow along the horizon. It's amazing how much starlight and nebulosity is just waiting to be captured!
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I still can't quite believe the glorious light we got up the Mournes on Saturday. Years up there. Countless hikes. And I've never seen anything quite like this!
@Mournelive
@visitmourne
@WalkNI
@walkhikeireland
@barrabest
@VacancesIrlande
@WeatherCee
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Getting an aurora this early in the season is like scoring a goal in the first 90 minutes after kick off!
And I was more than happy to celebrate this wee score last night at Magheracross!
Pillars just about visible to naked eye, esp with averted vision.
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A day of chasing rainbows along the Antrim Coast Road. This one was from Carnlough as I went to get our chippie. Glorious way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
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The Milky Way rises above the Wishing Arch, peeking between the rain showers tonight.
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I will keep a light on...
One of Rathlin Island's lighthouses, as seen from the top of Fair Head. As summer approaches, I love the long lingering hours of twilight. When the golden band never fully fades, and the blues are deep and rich and true.
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