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

The Lunar Eclipse of 2025 is over (other than the Penumbral closing stage). As expected, the UK didn't experience the full blood bit and clouds/gloom prevented me seeing it till the closing 50% stage. Still, it was fun! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Lunar Eclipse - An hour after rising! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Good luck UK Lunar Eclipse hunters. The Moon rises in the east in one hour!

Another 75 minutes on the Horsehead and Flame Nebulae in Orion this morning. Captured by the Dwarf3 in EQ mode to get a wide landscape view. Cropped here to portrait view for phone users! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social 1/2

This evening's rehearsal for tomorrow's Total Lunar Eclipse. Currently 99.1% full, I could barely see the Moon as it cleared the horizon (and it was fully lit). When fully eclipsed it may be very tough to spot until it rises. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Another 30 minutes on the Great Orion Nebula this morning. Captured by the Dwarf3 in EQ mode to get a wide landscape view. Cropped here to portrait view for phone users! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social 1/2

The Seven Sisters! Messier 45 - The Pleiades that my Dwarf captured before Orion rose. Another great sight by naked eye, though binoculars, a telescope or (in this case) on a phone or tablet. 90 minutes of exposures #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae! 45 minutes of 30 second exposures. Such a popular #astrophotography target regularly captured during the winter but currently just 25 degrees above the horizon before daybreak #astronomy @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

It's back! The Great Orion Nebula (M42) captured before first light during a marathon Dwarf3 imaging session overnight. More to come but here is 40 minutes of exposures before daybreak. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Tonight's even more fabulous Moon! 89 6%. Waxing Gibbous is currently only 9.5% above the horizon #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

So sad to see the news about the terrible funicular tragedy in Lisbon. Rode on it a few times in May. Always very crowded.

Tonight's fabulous Moon! 82.4%. Waxing Gibbous is just 9.6% above the horizon #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Tonight's Moon in a gap through the clouds. Almost three quarters lit. The 'jewelled handle' is showing up near the top left. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The First Moon of Autumn (Meteorologically)! Waxing Gibbous at 64.6% #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The last Sunflower made it to the end of August - just! Time to go to seed! @photohour.bsky.social #Sunflowers

Watching Lord of the Rings - Return of the King - on the Sky LOTR channel. So I set the Dwarf to capture the Wizard and Elephant Trunk nebulae (Geddit?). 45 minutes each! This smart scope lark is too easy! #astronomy #astrophotography #StormHour #PhotoHour

The last Moon of (Meteorological) summer! 55% Waxing Gibbous is incredibly low (barely 10% altitude) and just clearing my hedge. Wishing you a happy autumn! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

It's a Sunday #Sun Day! Lots of active sunspots facing Earth and giant group AR4197 has 50 of them alone. Watch this spaceweather! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social 1/2

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

Thunderstorms at Sunset. Colours of the clouds and the Moon! Happy Friday evening all! @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social #astronomy #astrophotography @metoffice.gov.uk

Micro Moon! The 35% waxing crescent is currently at Apogee eg the point in the Moon's orbit when it is farthest from Earth eg approx 405,000 km (252,000 miles). #astronomy #astrophotography #StormHour #PhotoHour

The Sun is alive again! 100+ spots. According to spaceweather.com 'A phalanx of large sunspots is facing Earth .... forecasters estimate a 65% chance of M-class solar flares and a 15% chance of X-flares solar flares during the next 24 hours' #astronomy #astrophotography #StormHour #PhotoHour

Fan of the 'Fab Four'? A free exhibition of 'Beatlemania' era photos taken by Paul McCartney went on display in London today (till 4 October) in Mayfair. It shows the Beatle's fame and fortune through the lens of McCartney's 35mm Pentax camera. @photohour.bsky.social #Beatles #PaulMcCartney 1/2

The Heart and Soul Nebulae neighbours - captured this morning. When we get more than a couple of hours clear sky I'll try and get both in a single wider field image. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social