M45 – The Pleiades Here’s a capture of the gorgeous M45 cluster (“the Pleiades” or “Seven Sisters”) taken last November. Showing up quite a bit of nebulosity in here...
M42 Captured Again Update: very chuffed to have this image shown on Brian Cox and Dara O’Brian’s Stargazing Live show on the BBC 😉 Yet another Greater Orion Nebula..
The Castle and the Stars Now for something a bit different. I’ve had my Astrotrac for over a year now but have barely used it until recently due to work commitments or..
Leo Fires over Spiddal – Leonid Fireball A small Leonid fireball in the wee hours of the morning. Taken from Trá Mór, Spiddal, Galway at around 4:45am – Sunday 18th. One of the few meteors..
Orion the Hunter over Cornamona Jupiter, the Pleiades and Orion the Hunter on show. I had gone out to try and catch the aurora after receiving an alert that night. Could not find..
The Stars over Nowhere Not quite sure what to make of this one. Didn’t work out as planned. Taken in Connemara a few months back late on a Saturday night (about 4 or 5am..
Major comets coming our way It’s been a while since we were treated to a nice Comet encounter. The dramatic surprise brightening of Comet 17P Holmes in 2007 (to the right is a..
Liquid Gold! After spending 3 hours wandering around Connemara waiting for a break in the clouds we headed home at around 2am. Stopped off at Cornamona for a..
Giant Sunspot Group AR1476 The enormous AR1476 sunspot group has been cracking with A and C class flares over the last few days. Like AR1339 this one is visible with the..
Canon 60Da Announced Well here’s something I never expected to happen. This morning Canon announced a new arrival to it’s DSLR line. 70D? 7D MkII? nope, it’s a 60Da, a..
