🥳 Major milestone for the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish Dark Sky Observatory: architectural designs are now public and isn't she a beauty! Two 5m 🔭domes, observing deck, solar-panelled planetarium, exhibition area & cafe. Fingers crossed that planning permission gets approved! ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 📷: arpl

Our winner of the Image of the Year competition 2025 has been announced: www.astronomyedinburgh.org/2026/01/10/i... 🔭 #astrophotography

My daughter's cat Biscuits was upset about the tree being taken down, so was allowed to play in the branches before it was put away. Apparently he kept patting at the baubles as they were placed around him, making the photo hard to get! #cats #catsofbluesky

A splendid cold walk to Fiddlers Gill to see the fab but rusting Victorian #Braidwood Telescope! Once part of the now long-gone Lanark Observatory, its optics are safe at the Lanark Museum. Sadly I see no hope in restoring this beauty tho, that's been long-abandoned in this field ☹️ #histsci 🔭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

An image of Gassendi and Mare Humorum taken on 30th December 2025. Numerous rilles are visible on the crater floor. #CFF160 🔭, #Televue 2.5x powermate, #Touptek 585M camera. Best 25% frames from 2500 frame video, stacked and sharpened in AstroSurface. #astrophotography

Yay! I've seen a lovely review of my new Affinity Astrophotography Image Processing book on First Light Optics Web page. www.firstlightoptics.com/books/affini... It is available from FLO or directly from my Web site: www.star-gazing.co.uk/shop

✨ Applications for the 2026 International Astronomical Youth Camp are now open! ✨🚀 Join us in Spain for the 60th lAYC celebration and experience an unforgettable total solar eclipse! 🌘 Head to our First Info page via the link in our bio to apply! Clear skies 🌌 🔭🎢 #EduSky #scicomm #astroedu

The Astronomical Society of Edinburgh wishes everyone a happy and prosperous New Year. #astronomy

Ganymede shadow transit on Jupiter. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #ZWO ASI585C. Two 90s videos, stacked and sharpened in AstroSurface. #astrophotography

3 images of the Moon tonight taken with #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #Touptek 585M camera. Best 25%(Southern uplands) or 5% (Sinus Iridum and Copernicus) stacked from 2500/5000 frame video in AstroSurface, and further processed in PixInsight. #astrophotography

Highlights of 2025 from The Astronomical Society of Edinburgh: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sotR... We have continued to grow our membership with over 200 members from all over the UK and beyond. If you like what you see, try us out - we're a friendly and welcoming group! #astronomy

Waxing crescent Moon from Edinburgh through clouds and low over some houses. #CFF160 🔭 and #Touptek 585M camera. Best 5% frames from 2500. #astrophotography

Merry Christmas all from the Astronomical Society of Edinburgh, and wishing you all clear skies for those new (and old) astro toys. 🔭

My daughter’s #cat Biscuits poses in a Christmas scene. He has apparently already sniffed out the catnip fish they bought him for Christmas. #catsofbluesky

Two images of Jupiter from last night. #CFF160 🔭 with #TeleVue 2.5x PowerMate and #ASI585MC camera. Europa and Io visible in left image from single video (best 10% stacked), and right image is stacked from 12 x 60s videos in WinJupos. #astrophotography

Absolutely fascinating talk to @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social on Kuiper Belts around other stars by Tim Pearce of Warwick University, and how you can use images of them to infer existence of exoplanets. Available to watch on YouTube: youtu.be/z0JPizgxe2k #astronomy

The Geminids are already firing and the peak should be tonight (14 Dec), clouds permitting. The Moon is kindly hiding too. These are a few from Friday night. Capturing 200+ in each of our cameras overnight (we have 17 in the Society). 🔭

Jupiter tonight, with 3 of the Galilean moons (Europa, Ganymede, Io from L to R). CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2x Barlow, #ZWO585MC camera. 90s video, best 10% frames stacked and sharpened in AstroSurface. #astrophotography

Capture of Saturn low down from Edinburgh with CFF160 🔭 and #Televue 2x Barlow. #ZWO585MC camera, best 10% frames from 90s video. #astrophotography

A brief clearing in the skies last night allowed me to get quick snaps of the Moon and Jupiter. CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #Touptek 585 mono camera for the Moon and #ZWO ASI585 colour for Jupiter. #astrophotography

🔊Big in #Biggar! If you're in the #Lanarkshire area, the Biggar Science Festival's Christmas lecture in the Corn Exchange, will be featuring yours truly. We'll be discussing the 4 questions that I'm most often asked! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔭 ⏰: 11th Dec @ 19:30 🎟️: biggarce.yapsody.com/event/index/...

Really enjoyed this talk! #astronomy #scicom

Talk by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell at 7.30pm tonight. It will be streamed live on YouTube. #astronomy www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTWJ...

2025’s Geminids will be the best meteor shower of the year With a waning Moon and a denser-than-ever debris trail, 2025’s Geminids might be the year’s best meteor shower, and 2026’s could be amazing. bigthink.com/starts-with-...

My daughter’s cat Biscuits in festive mood! #tabby #cat

First time imaging the Sun for a while. White light image (on the right) from the Seestar, left hand image from a Coronado Solar Max H-alpha 🔭 . Both images are best 25% frames from video, stacked in AstroSurface and processed with PixInsight SolarToolbox. #astrophotography #heliophysics

Albert Nagler (1935—2025) The Nagler family would like to express our deepest appreciation for the outpouring of condolences these past few weeks. Each is helping us inch forward from our loss. Our new blog post has an image gallery from Al’s life: tinyurl.com/TVOTWAlNagler

Have you e-signed @sciencecentres.bsky.social's letter to the UKGov? Today is your last chance before it goes to Downing St! Join 1000s of us in calling for fairer funding for the UK's science centres currently excluded from UKGov infrastructure funding.🧪🔭 ✍️ www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...

Perks of the job: sneak previews of awesome books! This is a beautiful blend of travel & adventure; wonder & awe; 🧪STEM, #histsci, astronomy, art & nature. If you've ever looked up and wondered "what is that?", then the inimitable @drlucyrogers.com has written this for you!

Got some Ha to add to a recent image of M33. CFF135 🔭 with #Touptek ATR2600 mono camera and filters. #astrophotography

I've submitted my application, but not sure I'll meet the criteria, soooo a little ask. I'd be grateful of a #follow #repost if you like #space, #physics & want to help me get invited to @nasaartemis.bsky.social launch! In return you'll get excellent content, & hopefully learn something too! 🧪🔭🙏

Had a few enquiries recently about #Seestar smart-telescopes for #scicomm or xmas gifts for keen-kids. If you are lucky enough to have the cash (£369), these are a great investment & super easy to use. 👇These images were all taken in just a few mins in the light polluted city of Edinburgh. 🤩🔭

🥳 Huge congrats to @sherwoodobs.bsky.social! Their hugely successful creation of the Sherwood Observatory and Planetarium has been recognised with a King's Award for Voluntary Service! If you're in the Nottingham/Derby/Sheffield area, they are well worth a visit! 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Combined two sessions on M31 from Jan this year with last nights group observing session with @e-astronomer.bsky.social , @astroroyalscot.bsky.social and @andynightsky.bsky.social and processed in PixInsight. About 2 hours of data, 15s exposures, gain 60. #Dwarf3 smart 🔭, #astrophotography

A time-lapse of a typical night observing with our remote telescope in Spain: ASERO. On an average night we observe 6 variable stars, a couple of comets and a chosen deep sky object - all selected by our members. 🔭☄️ Sometimes we do live observing, always fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n5F...

Your guide to the November night skies courtesy of @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social. Wishing you all clear skies and lots of lovely #Leonid 'shooting stars' (meteor shower peaks on the 17th)! 🤞🧪🔭🤩

Two more images from last night's session: Gassendi and Mare Humorum to the left, and Plato to Sinus Iridum to the right. Both best 10% frames from 2500 frame video taken with #CFF 135 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x powermate, #Touptek 585MM camera. #astrophotography

The heavily cratered southern uplands of the Moon, showing Tycho, Clavius, and Schiller. Best 10% frames from 2500 frame video. #CFF135 🔭, #Touptek 585MM, #Televue 2.5x Powermate. Processed in Astrosurface and PixInsight. #astrophotography

My daughter's #cat Biscuits getting into the #Halloween spirit.

Sh2-173, or the Phantom of the Opera Nebula, imaged with @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social remote 12" Murrell Newtonian 🔭 at #Trevinca in Spain. RGB stars with Ha for the nebula. #astrophotography

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️ ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

#Aurora from South Edinburgh just now. Looking west, barely visible to the naked eye because of the LED streetlights here. 10s hand held photo with phone. #astronomy

Woken early by Felix Astronomicus and saw the sky was clear, so got a quick shot of the Moon. CFF135 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x powermate, #Touptek 585 mono. Pleased that I got most of Hadley Rille. Best 100 frames from 1000 frame video. #astrophotography

Large prominence on NW limb of the Sun captured at 15:20 today (11 October) with Coronado SolarMax 🔭 and #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate. #Touptek 585 mono camera. Stacked in AstroSurface, then processed and coloured in PixInsight. #heliophysics #astrophotography

NGC7293 (Helix Nebula) imaged in HSO earlier this month with @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social remote Murrell 12" Newtonian 🔭 at #Trevinca in Spain. 71 x 300s Ha, 96 x 300s Oiii, 171 x 300s Sii. Processed in PixInsight. #astrophotography

My previous M33 combined colour RGB data from last year with L data from my new Touptek because I had not got good flats for the G and B channels. I fixed that this evening and processed 85 x 60s L, 20 x 60s G, B, and 19 x 60s R to get this image. CFF135 🔭, #Touptek ATR2600M. #astrophotography

The fantastic UK network of science and discovery centres needs your help to survive and thrive! Sign this letter urging the UKGov to stop excluding science from the financial support that is available for other museums, art galleries & theatres 🙏🧪🔭👩‍🔬🎢 👉✉️: www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...

Trying out my new #Touptek ATR2600M mono camera on M33. This is the first 24 luminance images. I'll probably combine with some RGB data from last year once the sequence is finished. Scope #CFF135 🔭 on #TTS160 Panther mount. #astrophotography

About 1 hour on M31 with a #Dwarf3 smart scope in equatorial mode. (257 exposures at 15s, gain 60.) Processed in PixInsight. #astrophotography 🔭

Set up CFF135 🔭 hoping to try new #Touptek ATR2600MM. But loads of clouds, so quick shot of Moon with #Touptek ATR585MM and #TeleVue 2x Barlow. Best 100 frames from 1000 frame video, stacked and sharpened in Astrosurface. #astrophotography