The Plough and Iron age roundhouse.

[madjohn]

Hi,

I was observing with Hants Astro at their observing site at Butser Ancient Farm 4 miles south of Petersfield, Hampshire on Sunday night (24th Oct).

Its where they try to discover how ancient people built their houses and skills that have been lost or forgotten, Time Team have filmed there and the Discovery channel partly financed the building of a Roman villa so they could make a tv series about it.

The villa is a one third scale model, and in addition there have been several Iron age roundhouses built, plus rare ancient breeds of animals preserved such as sheep.

I took this image of the largest roundhouse with the plough rising above when there was a full moon above and behind. a single 30 sec exposure at ISO 800, F3.5 using my Canon 18/55 EF-S lens at 18mm

Hope you like it, it looks like broad daylight with the Moon looking so bright!

John

[Keiran]

Seems like you had a good time up there... What time of night did you take those. Is the LP from portsmouth in the back ground

Keiran

[oldfruit]

That`s a nice picture.

[AndyUK]

That's an amazing picture - As you say, it looks like daylight... yet with the stars shining through!

[Doc]

What an amazing place. I love locations like this.

[skywatcher1701]

thats a cool picture mate

[wbm156]

good picture, very nice place to visit

[astroimpulse]

It totally looks like daytime! Very nice pic and I like how the edge of the roof-line is a very sharp contrast to the background.

[ollypenrice]

Great picture and surely one of the most beautiful roofs on earth...

Olly

[Demonperformer]

its part owned by the discovery channel.

I was speaking to one of the archeologists who work there, who asked me to "point out that we are not part owned by Discovery, they only put money in to build the villa so that they could make a TV series about it."

[madjohn]

Thanks for the correction Demonperformer (now amended), and thanks for the kind comments everyone.

The picture was taken around 11pm, and I'm not sure of the light pollution source, I think its the main A3.

John

[Spr]

Lovely shot John,

Darren

[Leegsi]

Great picture.

Wont be Portsmouth's as thst behind I think. More likly the car sales garage just of the A3

[LukeSkywatcher]

I've been to a similar place here in Ireland. It really makes you think about just how amazing the skies must have looked to our ancestors when there was zero light pollution.