Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Crab Nebula (M1)

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Crab Nebula (M1) in white light: A 62 minute integration of 2,3 and 5 minute exposures taken with an Atik 320e OSC CCD camera attached to an...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Wide field imaging

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During the morning of the 13th December 2025, numerous time-lapse images were taken of various regions of the sky in an attempt to capture s...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

M31 the Andromeda galaxy

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M31 the Andromeda galaxy taken with a Canon 1300D DSLR camera with a Rokinon 135mm prime lens at f/2.8. The camera was mounted on a Star Adv...

The California Nebula

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The California Nebula captured with a Canon 1300D DSLR camera with a Rokinon 135mm prime lens at f/2.8. The camera was mounted on a Star Adv...

The East Veil nebula

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Click on the image to get a closer view We only had about half an hour of clear sky. I captured just 33 x 30s exposures of the East Veil neb...

NGC 7822 and SH2-136

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Click on an image to get a closer view NGC 7822 The Teddy Bear Nebula . 5 hours data using a Seestar S50 stacked and processed in Pixinsight...

Dee Sky Sketches from Portugal

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Sketches from Portugal. Here are some that one cannot see from here. Click on a sketch to get a closer view Jim Startup

The Pleiades, The Flame and Horsehead nebulae and Geminid meteors

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Click on an image to get a closer view The Pleiades (M45): A 1 hour integration of part of M45 using an Atik 320e CCD OSC camera attached t...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Reprocessing of the Heart and Soul nebulae

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Reprocessing of the Heart and Soul nebulae, taken with a Canon 1300D DSLR camera with a Rokinon 135mm prime lens. The camera was mounted on ...
Monday, December 8, 2025

87% waning Moon

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Colour image taken on the evening of the 7th December 2025 during a gap in the clouds with a Sony ZV E-10 camera mounted on a fixed tripod u...
Friday, December 5, 2025

The Sun in white light on December 4th

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The Sun on December 4th with a Seestar S50 fitted with a Baader solar filter. Best 50% of frames from a 6 minute RAW AVI stacked in Autosta...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

The Wizard nebula in various narrowband palette like renderings

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The Wizard nebula. 22 x 5 minute exposures were captured with AstroDMx Capture, using an SV605CC OSC CMOS camera and an Altair Starwave ASCE...

The Camel’s Eye or Oyster planetary nebula (NGC 1501)

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The Camel’s Eye or Oyster planetary nebula (NGC 1501) in the northern constellation of Camelopardalis.This is an HOO image.  Click on the im...
Friday, November 28, 2025

NGC 7822 and C/2025 R2 SWAN

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Click on an image to get a closer view NGC 7822 is a young, star-forming complex in the constellation Cepheus, located about 3,000 light-ye...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Galaxy Clusters: A Zoom talk by Owen Brazell

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Owen Brazell gave a fascinating and authoritative and well illustrated Zoom talk on Galaxy clusters. The talk was wide ranging and provided ...

Flying dragon nebula SH2-114

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Flying dragon nebula SH2-114. 31 x 5 min exposures were captured with AstroDMx Capture, using an SV605CC OSC CMOS camera and an Altair Starw...

Wide field image of the Cassiopeia region

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Wide field  image of the Cassiopeia region taken with a Canon 1300D DSLR camera and ma Rokinon 135mm prime lens. The camera was mounted on m...

The Wizard nebula

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The Wizard nebula. 22 x 5 minute exposures were captured with AstroDMx Capture, using an SV605CC OSC colour CMOS camera and an Altair Starwa...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

M45 The Pleiades

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M45 The Pleiades. 24 x 5 minute exposures were captured with AstroDMx Capture, using an SV605CC OSC colour CMOS camera and an Altair Starwav...

Deep sky images and the Sun in H-alpha light

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Deep Sky Images taken with a Sky Watcher 80 Esprit triplet refractor fitted with a field flattener using an ASI 533MM Pro camera and EFW: Cr...