A few of September's astro highlights with the dwarf3 smartscope. The collage contains Andromeda galaxy, the Coathanger, the Teddy Bear, Pacman, Horsehead & Flame & Dark Shark nebula Its an amazing device👍 #smarttelescope #astrophotography 🔭

Hidcote Manor, Gloucestershire, a beautiful place to stop for a visit in the Cotswolds. #photography #nationaltrust #photohour

M31, Andromeda Galaxy our closest galactic neighbour at 2.5 million light years away Every star you see is in our own milkyway #astronomy #astrophotography 🔭 #dwarf3 #smartscope

Fortunatley, after a long wait, the moon found the gap My first view this cycle and its 12.5% lit waxing crescent #astronomy #moon 🔭

The full sturgeon moon, and a passing contrail #astronomy #moonart #moon

This is Caldwell 11, the bubble nebula that really looks like its name when zoomed in. With the nearby scorpion cluster, M52, also in frame on the left and NGC7538 emission nebula on the right, home to a protostar that is the size of 300 solar systems!!! (wiki) #astronomy #astrophotograpy

This is the crescent nebula C27 located at the heart of the constellation of Cygnus, Formed by strong stellar wind of HD192163, a Wolf Rayet star, a hot old massive star rapidly losing mass. #astronomy #astrophotograpy

M8, the lagoon nebula, first time I've imaged this, Its the 2nd brightest nebula in the night sky, it was only 11 degrees high and doesn't get much higher for me, so I'm pretty pleased with how the Dwarf 3 smartscope caught this, all in just 9 minutes 30 seconds of data #astronomy 🔭 #smarttelescope

A view looking down Market Street to the Market clock tower, Shrewsbury, passing through the centuries in building architecture #photography #Shrewsbury

The Flying Scotsman, chugging through Shropshire on the re-opening day of the Severn Valley Railway from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth #svr #locomotive

The little #Dwarf3 #smartscope has been busy in July, and even under a full moon the scope has been superb and such a joy to use 👍 The Heart and Soul nebulas. The Elephants Trunk nebula and Pacman nebula Processed in Dwarflabs Stellar Studio, PSexpress and Snapseed #Astrophotography #Astronomy

The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest intergalactic neighbour at 2.5 million light years distant, as it rushes towards our own Milky Way to merge in 4.5 billion years (wiki). 1hr 56 minutes of data from the Dwarf3 info in alt #astronomy #astrophotography

Interesting clouds over Shrewsbury 04.07.25, just before a short summer shower #StormHour

The Strawberry moon rising behind St. Marys Church in Shrewsbury 10.6.2025 #astronomy 🔭🌕

Saturdays 89% lit moon with a lovely orange hue in darkening skies over Shropshire.

Stockholm Central, what an impressive railway station #Sweden #Stockholm #Photography #travel

As @sjbastro.bsky.social @salopchris.bsky.social and @davidbflower.bsky.social have posted, we're heading into Noctilucent Cloud season. These are about 50 miles high, made of ice and other space dust matter Even in big cities (like London) they can be visible as these images prove. #astronomy

Noctilucent cloud season is underway. If you have clear skies in the UK over the next 8-10 weeks, look north 60-90 minutes after sunset or before sunrise, look for bright white lacey clouds, these are rare clouds 50 miles high, pic is from 2021 #nlc #noctilucent #weather #astronomy #stormhour

The western veil, or the witches broom nebula, NGC6960, another component of the huge veil complex in Cygnus. 2hrs 22 minutes of data 60secs 60gain, with stella studio and snapseed for processing. #astronomy #astrophotograpy #dwarf3

The Eastern Veil, NGC6992 and NGC6995, just part of the Veil nebula in Cygnus, a supernova remnant from 10k-20k years ago #dwarf3 #astronomy #astrophotograpy 🔭

A few snaps of Tuesday's moon rise, a beautiful colour. 98.5% waning gibbous #Flowermoon #StormHour #astronomy🔭

The full flower moon rising 12th May 2025 #astronomy

A few shots of the afternoon sun with huge sunspot 4079 and a "bluesky" moon at 30% lit. Pic 4 shows an interesting solar transit of the sun by a RyanAir 737-8AS, the planes contrail casting a huge shadow below #astronomy #SunHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #Dwarf3

Sundays full pink moon, at 4am, with the bright star Spica visually nearby #astronomy 🔭

Thursdays moon, 95% lit, pics 1,2,3 shot on the Dwarf3 smart telescope, pic 4 shot on nikon dslr #astronomy 🔭

Wednesday's sunset sequence,lovely to see the sun setting behind a distant famhouse #sunset #weather #stormhour

A bright white nearly full moon in a dark blue sky this Wednesday evening over Shropshire, UK #astronomy 🔭

A few images off the Dwarf 3 smartscope from the last two weeks a few issues around setting up in eq mode, frustrating at times, but it's a learning curve, a great little scope. Can't wait to try it out on some of the larger nebulas. All images are out of the unit #astronomy 🔭

There was a partial solar eclipse here in the UK today, here's a timelapse of the first 80 minutes, clouds unfortunatley spolt the rest. Equipment Skywatcher 80ED refractor and Nikon D7500 dslr using Seymour solar filter. #astronomy #astrophotograpy #partialsolareclipse

A few shots/Video of Mondays Space X Falcon rockets 2nd stage excess fuel dump over Shropshire, UK last night after it deployed its classified Satellite #astronomy #spaceflight

It's #Saturn ring-plane crossing day! A once in a 13-15 yr event when Saturn's rings are edge on, as viewed from Earth, making them appear to disappear! I'm so infuriated that the Sun is in the way meaning no-one will see it! 😡 We'll just have to imagine it 😞 👇The last time it was seen in 1995. 🔭🧪

Only 2 days of the year does the sun set behind this tree, (when viewed from the garden), and only when the weather is right, today it was 😎 #SpringEquinox #loveukweather #StormHour #sunset

I think this was a chiff chaff in garden? #birds #ukbirds

The bright white moon in a blue sky #StormHour

Orion, the mighty hunter standing with a mighty english oak #astronomy #astrophotograpy

The full worm moon over Shropshire UK Friday 14th March 2025 #astronomy #astrophotography 🔭

Wednesday's 98% moon, very bright tonight, the atmosphere looks so clear away from the clouds #astronomy

The high moon at 9pm, 9th March 2025 , 82% lit with the Jewelled handle coming into view(pic 2), plus a bonus lunar halo #astronomy #moon 🔭

Saturday afternoon's blue sky moon, 71% lit waxing gibbous phase #astronomy #moon 🔭 #photography #nikon

A hazy sky tonight, with a nice line up of the 30% lit moon with Jupiter, Mars, and the constellation of Orion in view #MoonHour #astronomy 🔭

Mondays 20% moon, with cloud building the earthshine was hard to get, also Jupiter and moons, plus Venus through cloud #astronomy 🔭

Another beautiful sky tonight, the crescent moon, Venus and Mercury (below venus, above the wire) #moonhour #astronomy #Astrophotography

Amongst a beautiful sunset, the beautiful crescent moon and venus shone brightly, Mercury was there but in the clouds 01/03/2025 🔭 #photography #sunset #astronomy

Mercury setting A timelapse from 80 shots, apologize for the flicker, cropped from a larger vid🤔 #astronomy #Mercury

As it's been a dreary day today, I went back over some shots of Lake Vyrnwy from August 2022, the dark sky is unreal, the mist on the lake was so ethereal too #astrophotography 🔭 #Wales #PhotoHour

The beautiful blue stars of M45, the Pleiades aka Seven Sisters, Subura. 60 minutes of 90 second shots (22/02/2025), no calibration frames, stacked in Sequator, processed in GraXpert, Siril, and photoshop (ACR). #Astrophotography #Astronomy

Finally, Sunday's 83% waning moon, rising through the clouds. Its been a while. #moon #astronomy

a winters night sky at Lilleshall monument The constellation of Orion, and the monument at Lilleshall, a composition of two differnt shots, using the snapseed app #astroart #astrophotography #composition #orion #Shropshire #telford

Sunday's moon, the 22% lit waxing crescent, with Venus still nearby, also now a 37% lit crescent #moonhour #astronomy #moon 🔭

Saturday evenings cresent moon and Venus above. A quick handheld blurry shot as clouds filled the sky #astronomy