A spooky foursome from me today! A ghost 👻 An evil face😈 A witch's broom🧹🧙‍♀️ Hubble bubble toil and trouble🫧 Happy Halloween 🎃 #astrophotography #astro #space #halloween

Data from last nights clear sky. The Ghost of Cassiopeia (IC 63) glows with hydrogen and dust, lit by a nearby giant star. Even ghosts need starlight to shine. 💫 #NASA #Astrophotography #Cassiopeia

It's almost Halloween, time to get those pumpkins carved! I'm setting the scene today with this slightly spooky landscape. Available on Folksy... folksy.com/items/8556673 #Landscape #Spooky #Halloween #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #bsnm

Love a wee Moo Coo 🐮

Caught Comet Lemmon shining through a Bortle 4 sky on our mini break. Just us, the stars, and the SeeStar doing its magic. 💫✨ #CometLemmon #Astrophotography #SeeStar

Not astro... but how cute are my nails?

My all-time favorite astrophotography app. It doesn't compress my images, and it's a space filled with beautiful snaps of the cosmos with the added nerd bonus of capture info. picastro.co.uk/profile/MTMz...

The Sadr Region, glowing in the heart of Cygnus. Captured last night with 2 hours on each SHO filter. Just a small attempt to show the beauty that’s already there. #Astrophotography #Nebula #SadrRegion #Cygnus #NightSky

Spent a few nights this week collecting data on the Eastern Veil Nebula in Cygnus. This is part of a huge supernova remnant, the aftermath of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago. This is in SHO, a less common choice for this target. #astrophotography #space #astronomy

Love my new astro nails 🌟🧙‍♀️🌙

Collecting data on the beautiful Eastern Veil Nebula this month. This is around 4hrs HA and 1hr 40 of OIII. Can't get more OIII until the pesky moon is out of the way. Here is a rough process so far #astro #astronomy

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Kicking off the new academic year tomorrow with a hands-on making session . . . a group of teachers have asked me to help them explore fossils through 3D making. It's a bit like asking the Cookie Monster to do training about biscuits. 😆😆😆 www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky

The colours of the universe! 8 hours of smart shooting overnight. Great to wake up and see what this little scope has captured and here they are now I've processed them. I've added AI descriptions in ALT so blame that if you disagree 🤣 #astronomy #astrophotography #StormHour #PhotoHour

Here’s our capture of NGC 7023 – the Iris Nebula 🌌. Located about 1,300 light-years away in Cepheus, the Iris glows as starlight reflects off cosmic dust, illuminating the surrounding dark interstellar clouds. 🔭 What do you see when you look into the Iris? #Astrophotography #Nebula #SpaceLovers

The fog parted unexpectedly last night to give me two more hours to work on the galaxy NGC 7479. Two more hours is not much, but it's more than I expected. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

✨ The Cave Nebula (Sh2-155) Captured over 21 hours of exposure time (and still adding more!), this cosmic cloud lies about 2,400 light-years away in Cepheus. Its dark dust lanes and glowing gas create the illusion of a celestial cave, where new stars are born. #astrophotography

Jupiter and Venus at 4am this morning, against a sprinkling of Gemini stars I missed out on their closest apparent approach, which was yesterday, but they'll remain very close together in the early Eastern sky for several days yet 3 moons of Jupiter are visible and labelled More in the ALT text 🔭

Sky appreciation this evening over the Obsy or as its also known, the 'Light Grabbin' Cabin' 🌞 ❤️ #sunset

Good Mooning everyone from the heat haze of London. Another scorcher today! 81.7% waning gibbous to wake up to. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The squish decided to take a rare nap, so I sketched for an hour. I came across a beautiful sketch by @marymcintyreastro.bsky.social of Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, and Arzachel and felt inspired. At first, I wasn't happy, but I reminded myself to trust the process. I think it turned out okay 🌙✨

Solar really isn't our strongest skill, but its been so sunny and beautiful. It's been hard to ignore! Here's the Sun this afternoon, just doing its sunny kinda thing 🌞 #solar #sunny #astronomy

SeeStar captured the Dumbbell Nebula (M27) last night about 1,300 light-years away in Vulpecula. It's always satisfying when the skies are clear enough for a good shot. #astrophotography #space #sky

🚨🌠 Did anyone else see it?! Last night at 11:13 p.m., while stargazing, we saw a MASSIVE meteor! Brightest I’ve ever seen, with a huge glowing tail that stayed visible for ages! Absolutely breathtaking. 😍💫 Did you catch it on camera? #Perseids #space #astronomy

Our little furnace in the sky is still a busy one today! #astronomy #space #astrophotography #solar 🌞

Jupiter (left) and Venus at 5am London time. Traipsing in my dressing gown in the street to get a decent shot at them. Luckily all my neighbours were still in bed! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

My favourite lunar area. Can you guess where this sketch is supposed to resemble? 🌙 #Moon #space #astronomy #art

Mark diaries: 1 mo from today! 7th Sept: total lunar eclipse (Moon-Earth-Sun alignment) for Europe, Africa, Asia & Australasia 🥳🔭🧪 A total lunar eclipse is faint red because it's reflecting the sliver of light from all sunrises & sunsets across the globe 🥰 www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna...

The Sun is being a little active, busy bumble today! 🌞 Just look at those sunspots! (Safely, of course)😎 #astronomy #space

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When stars go BANG! Managed to do a bit of imaging last night. This is the supernova SN2025rbs in galaxy NGC7331 in Pegasus, which outshines its host galaxy of thousands of millions of stars. Taken with an Esprit 100 refractor, ASI2600MM camera and LRGB filters. Total integration 1h 40m. 🔭

Space spaghetti, anyone? 🍝✨ This twisty tangle is the Veil Nebula, the leftovers of a star that exploded in Cygnus. That's 7.5 hours of cosmic fireworks in red (H-alpha) and blue (OIII)! 🔴🔵 #spaceart #sciart #space #astrophotography

Even the darkest skies give way to light—trust the dawn, for every ending holds the promise of a new beginning.

I've seen your face a thousand times Everyday we've been apart And I don't care about the sunshine, yeah 'Cause mama, mama, I'm coming home

Teacher signing off for the summer ☀️. It's been a year filled with a mixture of emotions, but I am ready for a break with my family and friends 🧡.

Weather has been shocking but still sinking in the hours on this cheeky little sky gem 💎 #space #astrophotography

Guess who actually sunk 2 hours of astrophotography last night! Looking forward to building data on this 😀 #astrophotography #space

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"Love, Is space and time, Measured by the heart" - Marcel Proust🌟

Helix Nebula, also known as the Eye Of God Nebula. An expanding shell of gas around a dying star. My artwork is available... theweeowlart.etsy.com/listing/1805... #SpaceArt #Nebula #OriginalArt #Drawing #OilPastels #Painting #Artwork #bsnm #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop

And into the stillness I wander, where the sky kisses the fields and time forgets to chase me...#goldenhour

And in the quiet of the evening, the sky whispers in colours only the soul can see. ✨🌌 #Sky #Colours #Evening #Soul #Nature #Peace

My little star, Squish Space Baby, had fun at the gala yesterday. 💕 I can't believe he is 2 in a few weeks. Beautiful hand painted stones by the lovely @joannanoble.bsky.social

After I caught the lunar sketching bug four years ago, I did a few more! Sketching gives me an hour of peace from planning lessons and dulls the overwhelm in my brain. This collection includes one of my favourite areas on the Moon, Hadley Rille 😌 #Art #Peace #Sketching #Moon #Relaxation

Now, I am by no means an artist, nor would I call myself one, but four years ago today, I had my first ever attempt at chalk-sketching the lunar craters Daedalus and Plato. It frustrated me no end, but afterward, I wanted to do more! 🥳 #Art #Space #Moon #Chalk #Anniversary #Sketching #Craters

Happy long weekend! Take a moment to put the workload down and focus on your real life. 😊

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The Pinwheel Galaxy

Still catching up with data I've captured over the last few weeks. This is Mars through my 8" SCT a few weeks ago, on a night of quite good seeing. The planet shows as a gibbous phase as it was only 2 weeks from Eastern quadrature (which occurred yesterday, 21st Apr) 🔭

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