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 š 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..
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..
Jupiter LRGB Believe it or not this is the first time I have ever made a planetary image in LRGB. Finally making use of that Atik filter wheel I bought a..
The Flame Nebula and the Horsehead It seems to be an age since I was out with the telescope but we finally had a clear night this weekend, albeit one with a high waxing crescent...
Giant Sunspot Group AR1339 For the first time in years we have a sunspot group that is visible to the (shielded) naked eye. AR1339 is 3 times wider than the Earth and a..
A View of the Summer Milky Way Taken in early September with a modded 450D. There was a short clear spell this night so I rushed out with mount and camera, used a 17-55 f2.8 @..
M13 The Great Hercules Cluster Been too busy to make an use of our unusually clear nights recently but the forecast is not good for the coming week so I took the opportunity to..
The Leo Triplet Got lucky with the weather last night. Despite a cloudy forecast it was very clear in between some hazy patches so I imagedĀ M65, M66 & NGC 3628,..