Tonight’s full moon. #Fujifilm X-T4, XF150-600mm

The Snow Moon, a little early. It's closer to full when it rises tomorrow, but I'm not sure it will be clear. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

The Moon tonight is very nearly full (99.3%). 🔭

22° lunar halo from earlier this evening

Good evening from London. Tons of clouds but a shaft of light is bursting through. Will be a full 'Snow' Moon tomorrow #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Another moon shot from a few nights ago. Sinus Iridum at sunrise. I love the long shadow cast by Cape Laplace. The mountains at lower right, known as the Straight Range, are also interesting 🔭

I have had my Orion ShortTube 80 refractor for 30 years. I used it a lot in the 90s with a film camera. Now it is relegated to guide scope duty attached to a ZWO ASI178MM camera. Last night I let them show what they can do on the waxing gibbous moon. Not bad! Details in ALT. #astrophotography

Another target from last night, Sinus Iridium, the Bay of Rainbows. It is a large impact crater that has been flooded by basalt flows. Bianchini is the large crater in top center. Some wrinkle ridges can be seen and the crater Laplace A looks lonely out in the bay. Details in ALT. #astrophotography

My attempt on Maffei 2 - a pretty sizeable disk galaxy, but hidden behind the Galactic dust curtain - so only very few images can be found on astrobin. I had to stretch it rather aggressively to get the faint structure show up prominently. bit.ly/4lB3t68 🔭#astrophotography 🔭📷

Made with paper and an empty toilet roll. Will be a future painting reference 💚⭐️

Our celestial neighbour, right now, from my backyard. SeestarS50 capture. Monochrome. That prominent central crater is Theophilus. It’s about 4km deep and 100km wide. In its centre is a triple peak mountain that gets to about 2km high. Mountains on another world, formed by an impactor. 🌙🔭

This is really beautiful and gives a sense of altitude and column height. [alt-text: a person standing on a snow field with a camera and tripod in front of them. Above them, are very bright green and purple aurora borealis. These look to stretch vertically into space. Stars pepper the background.]

Lots of shots to go through from tonight’s incredible auroral show over Dartmoor. Here are four of my favourites so far. While the camera does see far more than the naked eye, the colours in tonight’s display were the best I’ve seen in 30 years of mid-latitude aurora watching. #NorthernLights #Devon

Seeing faint #aurora in Southeastern Connecticut right now. Hope it gets brighter. #astro

Absolute scenes! The #aurora has gone crazy this evening here in Wales with vivid green and red visible to the naked eye. And don’t get me started on this beam which shot overhead for no more than 20 seconds. #astrophotography #photography #northernLights

Beautiful aurora tonight! Don’t forget to look outside. Arthur’s seat in the background.

#Aurora over Alveston near Bristol. Could see no colour unless looking through the iphone. Now cloudy ☹️

Potent!!

SW Ireland

Aurora confirmed, South West England!!

doing what i love most 🥹🌌🔭

Had a look at Jupiter this evening

Had a look at Jupiter this evening

Behold! My Solar System Christmas tree 🎄 Created 5 years ago, it’s a black tree with hand painted ornaments. Each year I added something new—asteroids from clay, moon ornaments, tree skirt, more stars, and even made it rotate. One year it was my favorite exoplanetary system, TRAPPIST-1. 🔭🧪🐡

Jupiter on Saturday morning in good seeing using the C11 with x2 Barlow. I'd just recollimated the scope and cleaned the corrector plate, which I think helps, but the dew was awful! This is probably my best Jupiter image to date. More data still to go through 🔭

On this darkest solstice day of the year, my heart has dimmed, waking up to learn of the loss of dear colleague and mentor, Yannick Mellier. Yannick will be known to most as the lead of the amazing Euclid Space Telescope which will revolutionise our understanding of the Dark Universe 🧵🔭

Star trails shot centred on Polaris from 16-17 December. Just over 3 hours of star movement. 😀 #Astronomy #Astrophotography

#astro So privilaged and honoured to be a part of this amazing project and book with so many amazing women in STEM. 🥰🤩 ✨ 🔭

Nifty. Jean-François Gout caught this +8th magnitude flash of a Geminid hitting this nighttime side of the Moon this past weekend:

Finally processed my shot of this morning's Moon. Always cool to see sunset over the Lunar Apennines. #astrophotography #astronomy #ireland #speirgorm

A big shout out to the P7 class of Stockbridge Primary who took these utterly awesome photos last night on their residential visit to the Lagganlia outdoor learning centre in the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Highlands. Lagganlia is part of the Scottish Youth Telescope Network and I'm so proud of these kids! 🥳 🔭 #SYTN

A nice little pairing. This is the Bubble Nebula in the lower left, and the open star cluster M52 in the upper right. The Bubble is devilishly hard to get right. A least, I find it so. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

The Pacman Nebula NGC 281 in Cassiopeia had been on my wish list for several years, and now, over the course of 4 nights in September & October, I finally got it. Visually not an easy object due to light pollution, but really fun to photograph (tech. details in image) 🔭 @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

NGC 7635 The Bubble Nebula It is an H II-region emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. Isn't it fascinating to see such a bubble in space? 🤩 (1/7)

The Boogeyman Nebula 🌌 Here's a fun astrophotography target to try with your telescope this season - but be warned, this one takes TIME! LDN 1622 is a dark nebula in the constellation Orion that resembles 'a dark figure with a head and arms' (I kinda see it!) This is 10 hours! #astrophotography

Uranus and its 5 brightest moons. Miranda is the closest to Uranus and is about 50,000x fainter than the planet, making it a challenge to capture in the glare of the planet. This is a 24 image stack. Uranus is over-exposed to help record Miranda. It's just visible on the edge of Uranus' glare! 🔭

5 mins vs 70 mins. Just live stack and auto stretch. #astronomy #astrophotography

Jupiter imaged on Tuesday morning in good seeing, with the C11. I think this is the first time I've captured vague albedo features on Ganymede, it's largest moon, which I was pleased about 🔭

The planetary nebula Sh2-188 in the constellation Cassiopeia is also known as Shrimp Nebula due to its shape. I took this image over five nights in August using a C8, an ASI294mc Pro camera and a total exposure time of around 13 hours (details in image) #Astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

It's not the best image you are going to see of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), but I managed to catch it with my DSLR. 30 images stacked. 5 seconds/ISO 800/ F/3.5. A quick set up with the intervalometer, just after sunset. I'm quite pleased to have caught it! #Astrophotography #Astronomy

Folks — @astrobites.bsky.social is a fantastic community-media source for astronomy news, and gives voice to the fantastic research that goes on by early career scientists. If you wanna get some experience in Astro SciComm writing it’s the place to be. Check link below for deets! 👇🏽

Mind has been officially blown by seeing Saturn and its moon Titan through the Mills Observatory Victorian 10" Cooke telescope. WOW! Every time I've visited before, the clouds have come too, but not today! This old technology still works perfectly with a clockwork tracking mechanism. Stunning 🥳👌 🔭

October 27, 2025 ended with twilight adorned by luminous colorful brush strokes due to an earlier launch from Vandenberg. The plume was invisible until the darkening sky above the twilight revealed it as as a pale white wisp. Later, as Earth's shadow climbed up the plume, sunset colors appeared.

Motion of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) over a period of ~1 hour. Nikon D850, Nikkon 180mm AI-S, f/4, ISO 200, 30x120 seconds. #astrophotography

Managed to grab a few more images of Comet Lemmon this evening (Sunday Oct 26th) from Kielder Campsite, Northumberland, through very brief gaps in the clouds. This is a phone-processed stack of half a dozen jpg images taken with my Seestar S50.

Messier 27, the Dumbbell Nebula from last night. Framed in the context of the wider star field in the constellation of Vulpecula. Taken with a Canon 250D DSLR through Evostar 72ED telescope on a Star Adventurer mount. #Astronomy #Astrophotography #Space

#Comet C/2025 A6 #Lemmon in the constellation Boötes, on the evening of October 24th. Captured from the light polluted outskirts of Munich. 16 minutes integration time with my Fujifilm X-S10 and 135mm f4.5 lens (untracked). #astrophotography 🔭

Congrats to @carersinstemm.bsky.social for a successful and insightful launch event in Edinburgh's grand Playfair library. They're calling for systemic changes to funding, policy & culture to support carers in STEM. Read more 👉 carersinstemm.co.uk & join future events in London/Manchester/Online 👩‍🔬🧪

Another session with the #Seestar S50 last night. Getting a feel for what it can/can't do, but there's much to learn—including accessing/using the RAW files; maybe this weekend. Also need to test it in a dark sky, not suburban. Here's 3x Orion neb w/ different exposures, and the Helix nebula. 1/n 🔭