Super sunspot AR4274 is still massive, but slowly turning away from us. Zooming in some nice granules. SW 120ED 2x barlow (F=1800mm). Lunt Solar Wedge imppg, PixInsight 2025-101-13 02:18 UTC Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Comet C/2025 A6 (LEMMON) 2025-11-8 7:44-8:02 PM MYT (GMT+8) 35 x 30s. ASKAR (F=230mm), ASI533MC PixInsight ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This was yesterday's shot. Travelled about an hour to the nearest seaside. Comet C/2025 A6 (LEMMON) 2025-10-31 8:08 PM MYT Fuji X-T20 (18mm 30s) Pantai Jeram, Selangor, Malaysia

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) 2025-10-13 12:32-13:01 UTC 59 x 30s. ASKAR (F=230mm), ASI533MC PixInsight ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) 2025-10-07 12:26-12:32 UTC 65 x 5s. ASKAR (F=230mm), ASI533MC PixInsight ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Rare clear evening sky. Taking a shot on C2025 R2

There are two bright star occultations by the waxing gibbous Moon over the next 24 hours: -First up, the 83% illuminated Moon occults the +3.7 magnitude star Gamma Capricorni for Indonesia and SE Asia centered on 12:28 Universal Time; paging @marwellaspaceart.bsky.social & @shahgazer.bsky.social

Sunspots today using Lunt Solar Wedge 2025-10-02

Added a few more frames for stacking. The tail was more obvious this time. C/2025 R2 (SWAN)

Sky clears up this evening. A quick shot before it got blocked by the neighbors roof. C/2025 R2 (SWAN) 2025-09-16

Failed attempt to get Comet SWAN25B this evening. Probably to faint for simple DSLR setup. Unfortunately the horizon view from my roof top observatory was even worse . Minorplanetcenter is reporting the current mag is at 9.4

Lunt Solar Wedge observations today. 2025-09-14

About an hour to go. 🥲

For Monday’s Total Lunar Eclipse, happening after midnight local time, I ‘might’ stream live to my youtube channel without any commentary. You’ll probably see me frantically adjusting exposures on my sharpcap. Weather has been really chaotic so far in Kuala Lumpur. youtube.com/shahgazer

I am back after long hiatus. It’s been a wild few months for me. Finally decided to get the Lunt Solar Wedge for white light solar observations. Looks promising using my small 420mm TS65Q.

Kosmos-428-SA has most likely reentered by now. Have not heard any reports of observations. Space Force will at some point issue a reentry estimate - nothing yet.

Sunspot AR4079 2025-05-07 03:20 UTC (11:20 am MYT) Sky-Watcher 120ED (F=900mm) 2x barlow ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia #astrophotography #astronomy

Monkey Head Nebula NGC2175 and open cluster M67 20250417 Kuala Lumpur. Bortle 8-9 sky #dwarf3 #astrophotography

Southern skies galore! Did a quick 5-10 minutes shots of these mesmerizing southern deep sky objects. Bortle 8-9 sky. Eta Carinae Nebula Omega Centauri NGC3532 Centaurus A cropped significantly. Straight out of the box with minimal adjustments using iphone Photos apps #dwarf3 #astrophotography

Old friend, Lagoon Nebula rising in the east. Rushing with the brightening dawn sky. Managed to get 15 minutes total exposure. Used the star removal tool in the DwarfLab app. Not bad! #dwarf3 #astrophotography

Waning Moon this morning 26th March 2025. Time to get that mesmerizing earthshine again. 25th Ramadan #dwarf3 #astrophotography

A short 5 mins shot on M47 with NGC2423, and NGC2420 in between the clouds last night. bortle 8-9 sky. #dwarf3 #astrophotography

After a couple of cloudy nights, the sky clears up a bit this morning, 25th March 2025. 24 Ramadan. 42 x 1/124s #dwarf3 #astrophotography

Now that Universe Today is totally ad-free, we can do whatever we want. And what we want is a 5-part overview of the new science coming from JWST's Cycle 4. www.universetoday.com/articles/jws...

Extremely cloudy sky this morning, 20th March 2025. This is just a single 1/300s shot. 19 Ramadan. #dwarf3 #astrophotography

Rising Moon of 18 Ramadan. 11:30pm 18th March 2025. Moon still low on the eastern horizon. Managed to get about 40 frames before the clouds rolled in. #dwarf3 #astrophotography

The Moon of 17 Ramadan. Observed during the dawn of 18th March 2025. #dwarf3 #astrophotography

Waning Moon. Night of 16 Ramadan. (16th March 2025). 72 x 1/500s #dwarf3 #astrophotography

Another moon shot tonight. March 15th 2025. The night of 15 Ramadan. 210 x 1/640s #dwarf3 #astrophotography

M41 under the full moon sky. Not bad for this little scope #dwarf3 . So far I’ve been using this far more frequent than my usual ap gears! #astrophotography

Full Moon on the night of 14 Ramadan. (14 Mac 2025 11:30pm MYT) #astrophotography #dwarf3

Venus - 21 days to Inferior Conjunction 2025-03-01 11:57 UTC Elongation from Sun: 30 degrees Illumination: 13.8% Apparent Size: 50 arc sec C9.25” F=2350mm, Touptek 678MC ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia #astrofotography

It has finally arrived! #dwarf3 New phase on my #astrophotography adventure. Simpler, lighter.

Venus - 29 days to Inferior Conjunction 2025-02-21 12:14 UTC Elongation from Sun: 36.5 degrees Illumination: 21.2% Apparent Size: 44.3 arc sec C9.25” F=2350mm, Touptek 678MC ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia #astrophotography

Huge prom on the western limb. TS65Q, Daystar Quark Ha, ASI290MM 2025-02-20 02:52 UTC (10:52 am MYT) ShahGazer Observatory, KL, Malaysia #astrophotography

The chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting out planet in 2032 is now 1.5%, or 1 in 67. The OVERWHELMING likelihood is that the asteroid will miss Earth. But for the first time ever, we might have to seriously consider a deflection mission soon. Let me explain. 🧵 (1/x)

Last night I was enjoying another night away from city lights. It must be obvious that Orion the hunter is my favourite constellation but I never usually see so many stars visible in that region. This is a handheld 4 second exposure using a phone camera (no tripod). #astronomy #astrophotography

Pew, pew! ☀️The solar wind pours out from the Sun all the time, sending potentially dangerous particles in our direction. But how does it get launched from the Sun in the first place? Thanks to @ESASolarOrbiter, we now have a surprising answer 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭🧪

Mars 2025-02-02 15:14 UTC Apparent Size: 13.6 arc sec CM: 334.6º C9.25” F=2350mm (2x barlow) , Touptek 678MC ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia #astrophotography

Venus - 48 days to Inferior Conjunction 2025-02-02 11:40 UTC Elongation from Sun: 44.7 degrees Illumination: 36.7%
Apparent Size: 33.2 arc sec C9.25” F=2350mm (2x barlow) , Touptek 678MC ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia #astrophotography

Jupiter 2025-02-02 13:55 UTC Apparent Size: 42.9 arc sec System: CM I 17.3° CM II 271.7° CM III 71.0° C9.25” F=2350mm (2x barlow) , Touptek 678MC ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia #astrophotography

Suddenly after months of overcast skies, it clears up tonight!

Waiting patiently for my #dwarf3 to arrive.

Venus - 49 days to inferior conjunction 2025-02-01 12:04 UTC
Elongation: 44.9 degrees
Illumination: 37.4%
Apparent Size: 32.75 arc sec
C9.25” F=2350mm (2x barlow) , Touptek 678MC ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia #astrophotography

A cleaner calibrated image of C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) this morning around 10 am Kuala Lumpur local time. Stacked about 400+ frames , extracted from the recorded video. #astronomy #astrophotography

Behold! Daylight comet!!! C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) 2025-01-14 02:06 UTC (10:06 am MYT) Elongation 5.3º from Kuala Lumpur It was surprisingly easy to see from the computer screen,albeit only 5.3 deg from the Sun! #astronomy #astrophotography

Lunar occultation of Elnath just now from Kuala Lumpur.Due to very cloudy sky, I couldn’t make any good recording with the IOTA-VTI .I was frantically adjusting the exposure in & out! In fact I thought I might have totally missed it 30 seconds before ingress! #astronomy #astrophotography

Incredible! right after Elnath was occulted by the Moon, the sky clears up! 😆 #astronomy

Pheww.. just finished replacing my old NEQ6-Pro board with the new one. Connection is ok. No more intermittent power problem. Been using this old fella since 2010/2011 I think. Now pondering if its worth to super tune it. 🫠

Get set for an astro-doubleheader going into the weekend: first up, the waxing gibbous Moon occults the Pleiades at ~2:00 tonight for Europe and Eastern North America; also in the evening sky, brilliant Venus reaches greatest eastern (dusk) elongation, 47 degrees from the Sun in the eastern sky.