ω Centauri, the largest known globular cluster in the Milky Way. It contains roughly 10,000,000 stars, is 17,000 light years away and measures 150 light years across. April 18th 2026 #astrophotography

A beautiful part of the sky in Carina, NGC 3581-2 is a nebula 9,000 light years away. April 18th 2026 #astrophotography

925. Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge. Deluxe edition with 2010 remix, 1974 original mix, original demo and 5.1 mix. A beautiful piece of music, and here there are many ways to enjoy it. #CDsAtoZ 💿

924. Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique. London Symphony Orchestra conducted by André Previn. A truly fantastic piece of music, which has the premise of an artist’s drug adventure. Hence the movement about him marching to the gallows. #CDsAtoZ 💿

Orange man is having a crack at the Pope now. 🍊 Needless to say, it’s time for . . .

Is he dead yet? Seriously.

Planets are bloody hard to photograph. They are dim compared with stars and the atmosphere here on Earth affects the quality of the light coming through. Anyway, here's Jupiter and it turned out OK. March 30th 2026 #astrophotography

Waxing gibbous Moon, a couple of days before full, March 30th 2026. All going well, four astronauts will be heading to the Moon this week on @nasaartemis #astrophotography

Aussie here in solidarity with our pro-democracy friends in the USA 🇺🇸 today! We are watching and we are with you 🇦🇺 #NoKings

#astrophotography How I came to do it, how I do it, and a little bit about why I do it. 🔭 substack.com/@asteroidpro...

My “review” of Project Hail Mary but shhhh, some spoilers. A beautiful movie with something for everyone, and maybe everything for someone. substack.com/@asteroidpro...

The Running Woman Nebula (Sh2-279), a reflection nebula 1,500 light years away in Orion. Beautiful blue glow stretching light years across. #astrophotography

The Spiral Planetary Nebula (NGC 5189) in the constellation Musca. A planetary nebula whose central star may have a small stellar companion, hence the s-shape. Lovely amongst the stars of the Milky Way. 3,000 light years away. March 22nd 2026 #astrophotography

923. XTC: The Big Express. Surround Sound Series with BluRay, remixed by Steven Wilson. Fantastic remix of XTC’s heaviest and loudest album. Lots of bonus tracks. #CDsAtoZ 💿

#CDsAtoZ 💿 #Styx

The Antennae Galaxies, NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, in Corvus. Two colliding galaxies, 70,000,000 light years away. Looking like an amoeba, an embryo, a flower, but covering a space of some 250,000 light years. I know, right. March 11th 2026 #astrophotography

922. Carl Orff: Die Kluge & Der Mond. Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchestra conducted by Herbert Kegel. Two one-act operettas with sprech (spoken word) in German. Very weird and very delightful, and very much in the elemental style that Orff brought to ‘Carmina Burana’. #CDsAtoZ 💿

921. The Police: Synchronicity. 2CD reissue with bonus tracks. There is not a poor song on this album; even “Mother” is magnificent. This is timeless and it could have been released yesterday. What a band. #CDsAtoZ 💿

NGC 2525, a barred spiral galaxy 70,000,000 light years away in Puppis. Difficult to see, as we are looking at it through the obscuring stars and dust of our own galaxy. But beautiful. March 10th 2026 #astrophotography

Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), 8,500 light years away. Thousands of stars in one of the richest areas of the Milky Way. March 10th 2026 #astrophotography

Waning gibbous Moon, March 11th 2026 at 1.30am. Early morning Moons are especially beautiful, with the dark lunar seas being prominent. The bright crater near the centre is Copernicus, 93 kilometres across and 3.8 kilometres deep. #astrophotography

State Library Victoria 📚 #booksky

Monochrome of Alnitak, one of the stars in Orion's Belt, with the Flame Nebula at right. March 5th 2026 #astrophotography

Orion Nebula (M42), March 5th 2026. The nebula covers a wide patch of sky, wider than my telescope's field of view. So I divided the area into quadrants, and merged the four resulting images, each made up of 25 x 4 second exposures. The end result is pretty good. #astrophotography

Waning gibbous Moon, two days past full. Lovely view of the ejecta rays and the craters near the terminator. March 5th 2026 #astrophotography

#MelbHenge March 3rd 2026. The Sun setting in the gap between Eureka Tower and the Rialto, which (from my vantage point) is where the Yarra flows. #sunsets #melbourne 🇦🇺

Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), a composite of two images. February 21st 2026 #astrophotography

Moody post-storm #MelbHenge February 27th 2026 #melbourne #sunsets

#MelbHenge is beginning. February 26th 2026 #sunsets #melbourne 🇦🇺

The star cluster M46 in the constellation Puppis, 5,000 light years away. Superimposed is the green planetary nebula NGC 2438, which is more than 3,000 light years closer to us. February 21st 2026 #astrophotography

Waxing crescent Moon, February 23rd 2026. 370,634 kilometres away at the moment. Lunar fun times are approaching, with a lunar eclipse in 8 days time (AEDT), and of course mission @nasaartemis being prepared for launch! 😍 #astrophotography

Wow.

The galaxy NGC 1566 in Dorado. Always a beauty to photograph. 69,000,000 light years away. The light from the hundreds of billions of stars in this galaxy had travelled for almost 70 million years before reaching my telescope. I know, right. February 15th 2026 #astrophotography

NGC 3581-2, a beautiful emission nebula in a rich star field in Carina. 9,000 light years away. February 15th 2026 #astrophotography

Orion Nebula and surrounds, February 15th 2026 #astrophotography Mosaic of five images; don’t know if the whole thing will fit on the screen!

Liminal spaces between Flinders Street and Town Hall Stations, Melbourne. Moving from a 19th century passageway to a 21st century space, via a mid-20th century portal. #Melbourne 🇦🇺

Happy 50th birthday to the best album ever 🎉 #Genesis

Am I right? #pambondi #congress #trump #epsteinfiles

919. Metallica: Melbourne, Australia November 8, 2025. What a memento — double live CD from the show we went to. Sounds fantastic!! And my shouts/vocals are on the album too, somewhere. #CDsAtoZ 💿

Star Warsing the narrowest lane in Melbourne, Corrs Lane, between Lonsdale and Little Bourke Streets.

International Space Station passing over Melbourne, February 6th 2026. 30 second exposures. There are currently seven people on board the ISS, six men and one woman. 420 kilometres or so above the Earth, travelling at 27,000 kilometres per hour and orbiting once every 90 minutes.

Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), February 6th 2026. What a beauty of the southern sky. Experimenting with exposures, image stacking and processing because I am a massive nerd. Carina Nebula is 8,500 light years away. #astrophotography

A waning gibbous Moon, 85% illuminated. 12.30am, February 6th 2026. Three men and one woman will travel around the Moon within the next month, tech and weather permitting, on @nasaartemis #astrophotography

Full Moon, February 2nd 2026. It's a bit past full, with some shadow appearing on the left limb. Currently 373,922 kilometres away. The next Full Moon on Tuesday March 3rd will be accompanied by a total lunar eclipse, beginning at 10.00pm AEDT. #astrophotography

Milky Way near the Carina Nebula. Hundreds of stars and massive swathes of gas and dust, light years across. January 26th 2026 #astrophotography

Betelgeuse or α Orionis, a red supergiant star in Orion, 500 light years away. With its radius being 700 times that of the Sun, it would engulf the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars if it was at the centre of our solar system. January 26th 2026 #astrophotography

Jewel Box Cluster in the Southern Cross, very pretty and 6,500 light years away. Filled with supergiant stars. January 26th 2026 #astrophotography

NGC 3532, a beautiful open cluster in Carina, 1,300 light years away. Stars inside loop around in elegant lines. Little sprinkles, but all of them many light years from each other in three dimensions. January 26th 2026 #astrophotography

First quarter Moon, January 26th 2026 #astrophotography

Orion Nebula, January 23rd 2026 #astrophotography