This morning's capture of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) The comet will make its closest pass to Earth on October 21, 2025, at a distance of about 55 million miles (89 million kilometres). #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

I'm awake, hoping to shoot a comet! In the meantime, there's a bright Moon overhead. 94.3% waning gibbous. #astronomy ##astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The Harvest Moon is now at its closest to Earth. Barely 224,000 miles away. Truly a 'Supermoon'! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

'Supermoon' - The Harvest/Hunter Moon part 2! Now waning at 99.3% and fighting the clouds and aeroplane exhaust. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Red sky at night, Clouds approaching! @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The Hunter (and Harvest) Moon just now. Exactly 100% full and as close as it gets to Earth (226k miles away). It really is a Supermoon! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

'Supermoon' - the first of 3 this year. This evening's fantastic rising full Harvest Moon! Actually 100% about 04.45 tomorrow morning. Also rising into the 'Belt of Venus' #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Proof that comets move! Here's C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) from successive early morning captures (look at the position of 'neighbouring' stars). I've been able to capture a faint tail at last! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Tonight's Moon with Saturn (lower left in photo 2) in 'close' contact. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Two nights away from the 'Hunter' or 'Harvest' Moon (it'll rise already full on Tuesday). Currently waxing at 97.5% #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Tonight is NASA's international #ObserveTheMoon night. Currently at 92 8%, the waxing gibbous is rising in the south east and if you've got a great sky (like here in London), take a look. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Two-thirds Moon! 67.3% waxing gibbous looking superb this evening! #astrophotography #astronomy @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Decent sky again in the early hours so had another go at Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). It's not naked eye yet (doubt it ever will be here in London) but stands out against the stars in this image. Needs more time to capture the tail. #astrophotography #astronomy @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

This evening's lovely big (and very low) Moon sails on the last day of September - ally-ally-oh! Also, can you see the 'Eyes' of Clavius? It only lasts a few hours. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social 1/2

The last day of September and the third quarter of 2025 is about to end tonight. An excellent month for #astrophotography with a Lunar Eclipse, the Occultation of Venus and the annual arrival of the lovely Orion! #astronomy @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

My first attempt at Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) earlier this morning. To be honest, it's little more than a fuzzy blur at the moment (and little tail in this image) but if/when it gets brighter next month I'll have another go. #astrophotography #astronomy @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

We all need a bit of love right now! Here's the Heart Nebula - the latest capture from last night 🤎 #astrophotography #astronomy @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Exactly ten years ago tonight, there was a Total Lunar Eclipse when the Moon went 'blood' red! It coincided with a perigee 'Supermoon', an occurrence that's happened only 5 times since 1900. Next one is 2033 #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

From the night before last. The Pacman Nebula #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

This is called #astrophotography progression! The Iris Nebula (Caldwell 4). After adding another 4 hours of data last night, this is where I am now, cf with my first session last week. That's 10 hours in total! #astronomy @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

It's the Crab! The Crab Nebula to be precise. Messier's Number One (M1) in his famous catalog of fuzzy objects in 1758. My fifth attempt to collect a decent image. Two clear hours before sunrise for this one. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

This will need a click on your phone! The Heart and Soul nebulae. A full framed widescale image as captured in a single session last night by the Dwarf3! 180 minutes of 60 second exposures (the best 132 of which were stacked) #astrophotography #astronomy @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Today is the 179th anniversary of Neptune's discovery. I first 'discovered' the outermost ice planet in 2020. A year later, this is the best image I've taken of it (so far)! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

My latest shot of the Pleiades (M45) earlier this morning. The first of astronomical autumn! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The Cygnus Loop AKA The Veil Nebula. Complete mosaic of the whole region of a massive supernova aftermath of a star that exploded between 17,000 and 25,000 years ago. The east, west and north portions in detail below 👇 #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social 1/2

It's the Autumn Equinox right now! Today's Sun is precisely overhead at the equator. The Equilux (equal day and night) is variable and is in another 3 days for the UK and much of the Northern Hemisphere. #equinox #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

An excellent night for #astrophotography The Rosette Nebula. 2 hours worth of 30 second exposures at gain 60. The Nebula has several catalogue designations due to different parts of it being recorded separately before its true nature was known. #astronomy @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The Ring Nebula (M57). 90 minutes of data collection and processing on Sunday evening from 20.30 to 22.00 BST. Weather is great all night so 7 more hours and 4 more targets to come! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

It's a Sunday #Sun Day! Eleven groups of active sunspots. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Celestial alignment captured by @peterlewis55.bsky.social this afternoon! Behold the Moon, on its journey around the Earth, moving to temporarily block out the light from planet Venus. 🔭🧪 Absolutely cracking photos Peter - thanks so much for sharing!

Occultation! Venus is about to disappear behind the 5% lit Moon! #astronomy #astrophotography #Occultation #Moon #Venus @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social 1/2

The Moon will occult Venus this lunchtime! Here they are between 5am and 6am today as they move together in the next few hours. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Apparently, today is 'National Fox Day'. In the UK at least. So a good opportunity to share my favourite photo of one again. #NationalFoxDay #Mammals #Fox @photohour.bsky.social

Another night sky wonder my Dwarf captured last week! Bode's Galaxy with its neighbour, the Cigar Galaxy. M81 & M82 are 12 million light years away and can be seen in the Great Bear constellation (not that they're part of it). #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

I'm baring my Heart and Soul and need a click! This is an adjusted image of the two large, adjoining and distinct emission nebulae located in the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. Situated in the constellation Cassiopeia. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

This morning's Moon. 60 degrees high, 29% lit. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The Elephant Trunk Nebula. A 3 hour data collection session the other night. Rotated & cropped, with & without stars plus a wider field view of a star-forming region (IC 1396) of gas & dust, approximately 2,400 light-years away. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

A blue sky Moon this late Moonday morning on Bluesky! The great crater Clavius is showing well near the terminator #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Goodnight from London as the 45% waning crescent Moon rises! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The North America and Pelican (looking like a Pterodactyl) nebulae. This is a crop of a 1.8x1.8 wide field mosaic. Two and a half hours of 45 seconds exposures in EQ mode. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

A Sunday morning blue sky Moon lit by the Sun's light- you might not even spot it unless you look very high up - currently 66 degrees altitude. Waning Gibbous of 52% #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

A very noisy photo but here's the Moon and the Pleiades at very close quarters, an hour after occultation #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The Moon is currently occulting (passing in front) of The Pleiades (M45 - the 'Seven Sisters'). It's a pity there's too much cloud to see the stars but you can get the picture! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

What a glorious early autumn morning and such a blue sky Moon to wake up to! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

It's all in today's Sun! Observation doesn't reveal too much other than 3 sunspot groups on the western half but specialist NASA images reveal a massive 'hole'. Details in ALT in photo 3 but don't worry, the Sun isn't dying - yet! #astrophotography #astronomy @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Second Moon shot of the day! This time, the waning gibbous is 86.5% illuminated as it starts to pull away from Earth's gravitational pull. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Struggling to sleep tonight (is anyone else awake?) and there's a bank of heavy cloud over London ahead of heavy rain but I've just seen a bright patch bursting through! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) - a trillion stars roughly 2.5 million light years away. My latest on another clear night (maybe the last for a while) so this is 2 hours worth of 60 second exposures. Portrait view for phone users. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social 1/2

One final photo from yesterday's Lunar Eclipse. As I often do, I played around with exposures and rather like this one which reveals the misty atmosphere and some surface detail of the as yet unlit portion. #astronomy #astrophotography #LunarEclipse @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

As I was preparing for last evening's Lunar Eclipse, my hopes were low as the sky looked like this at sunset. The 4th photo showed the area in the east that the fully eclipsed Moon rose into @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social