Francis Hickenbottom’s Nature Notes.

14th January 2012
Awful weather in Pembrokeshire prevented me from making an attempt to photograph the planet mercury during the New Year period but I was spurred on by the coming, tomorrow evening, of the next set of Stargazing Live programs to go out this evening to take a few photographs.
My first objective was to photograph Venus whilst there was still a little light in the sky. Venus has recently started to be visible in the western sky early in the evening.
Following that, I spent over an hour standing in sub-