NGC7497 A dusty galaxy in Pegasus This spiral edge on galaxy is located almost 60 million light years away. It is visible in this image hiding behind the integrated flex nebula, a faint cloud of interstellar dust within our own Milky Way galaxy Shot from my backyard , September 2025 .

A quick time lapse from last night’s bright and fast moving Aurora scene from Ottawa Canada

Cyanotype bees

Pinhole camera shot of a happy bee hanging out in a big sunflowers. 4x5 fomopan 400 . Printed in #cyanotype #pinholecamera #altphotography

WOOHOO! My very first APOD ( Nasa’s Astronomy Photo of the Day) I am so pleased and honoured that the APOD team selected my crazy plasma time lapse. It was a pretty unusual sight. They rarely float in the air ( err, I mean space….) like that. #astronomy

My first totally analog photo print! I took the picture with a zero 45 pinhole camera at 50 mm with 4 x 5 black and white sheet film . I develop the film at home and then used the film negative to print a cyanotype in the sunshine!! #pinholecamera #altprocess

Wacky floating plasma on the sun, August 10, 2025

Catmint on Blackberry #anthotype

Blackberry barn from Middlesex County Ontario #anthotype

Peonies for days

A big fancy prom on the west limb of the sun June 14th #solarimaging

A solar image of the very active region 4114 shot on June 14 from my backyard

Milky Way season

Just came back from Photo Pill’s camp. What a great experience.

The gorgeous Sunflower galaxy Messier 63 located 27 million light years away this big spiral galaxy remind us of Sunflowers, especially the seeds! Shot with my Big C11 scope and the ASI2600MC colour camera for 6 hours on the fine evening of the April New Moon. No filters!!

I will admit to a small obsession with ARP Peculiar Galaxies ( see the pictures from my big ARP picture book) Ok I may just love all galaxies…. Here is NGC 3718 shot over 2 nights from the Ottawa Backyard at 1960mm foal length

Blackberry Anthotype I have had this image outside in the sun since February with a negative on top of a paper coated in blackberry juice. It came in earlier than planned due to a sudden snowstorm still, I’m quite pleased with it and I think I’ll start another blackberry image ASAP #anthotype

A closer look at 300 mm of the solar eclipse of March 29 2025

Chasing the dawn eclipse Wedecided to leave at 3 am and drive up the coast of the magnificent Bay of Fundy, known for the highest tides in the world. Glad we did! ( PS my husband is a saint for driving 5 hours that day!)

Dawn eclipse from a stunning 🇨🇦beach March 29 , 2025 Alma New Brunswick, along the Bay of Fundy. Straight out of camera All batteries died so processed images still need to come. #solareclipse

BREAKING: 34,000 people have showed up in Denver, Colorado this evening to see Bernie Sanders and AOC fight oligarchy and authoritarianism.

Finally my Timelapse of the lovely pink lunar eclipse from Ottawa, Nikonz6ii, on a tracker at 560mm flic.kr/p/2qTeyRa

Pretty Rugosa rose blueberry anthotype exposure time: 3 weeks #anthotype #alternativephotography

The coral poppy moon ( no blood involved) from march 13th 2025 . Nikon Z6ii on a star tracker

Good bye to the evening star! Near inferior conjunction, Venus is big bright, close to Earth and a lovely thin crescent. Occurring only every 2 years capturing Venus at this elusive and fantastic phase has been a goal of mine for a long time. So pleased. #venus #eveningstar

A few of my of my pretty #cyanotype prints from today. As much as I love my Astro photographs I think my favourite image was the beautiful white Rugosa Rose . 🌹

A Sun selfie made of turmeric die, and a solar image negative from one of my Astro Photography images of the sun from last summer #cynanotyoe #anthotyope

My Astro Cyanotype adventure today

Venus the evening star shining bright above, I set up my telescope in the front yard to try to catch this beauty

Jupiter, little Io and Mars Imaged between the clouded Dec 1 2024. Honestly I have never seen Jupiter to high, so crisp and clear! Go image it now!!

Little MArs and Big jupiter… from the backyard with my C11, Uranus C camera and a 2x barlow

A better image of Jupiter using Winjpos and de-rotation Icy Europa post transit Nov. 28

Little Mars getting closer and look at that norther polar cap…. Also i need a good Martian map any recommendations??

The giant gas planet Jupiter, and the little ice moon Europa! ! I was just about to hop in bed when I noticed the beautiful clear night. I had time to do a few sequences of Jupiter before the clouds rolled in

The beginning of EE Barnard’s journey cataloging dark nebulae. In this image, Barnard 1,2,3,4 and 5. Shot from the backyard

Was a busy night on Saturday and not the best seeing but a good refresher on how to set everything up . The moon was out but planetary imaging is not affected by the moonlight and the moon lets me get well focussed before I slew over to the planets.

The full beaver moon rising… over beavers,… who may or may not be living in the Ottawa River….

@bot.astronomy.blue signup because I am an amateur astronomer and photographer

Why? Why did we come to Blue Sky….. for the people , especially the astro-people…

A composite image showing the path of the sun and moon during the afternoon of the total solar eclipse over the frozen Lac Megantic , Quebec. I even got a mini diamond ring!!! The bright star below is Venus

Totality at Lac Megantic Quebec

Sparky sunspot 3590 in h alpha an calcium k

Our moon tonight, shot this afternoon under a blue blue sky

Messier 82- Some galaxies are especially good at generating bright new stars and have so much galactic dust and gas that they create stars at a furious rate. M82 is also called the “Cigar galaxy” due the red glow of Hydrogen “smoke” emanating from its galactic core.Imaged from my Ottawa backyard.

Stephan’s quintet a colorful, but tiny galaxy group as image from my backyard this month also known as ARP 319

The Deer Lick galaxy group in the constellation Pegasus as imaged from the backyard

My very first Astrobin Image of the Day!!! Whoohoo! Astrobin is an astronomy website where people from all over the world post their wonderful astronomy images. This is a wonderful honour! This image is a 12 part mosaic of the the sun captured using my Quark Chromosphere solar filter.

Find a Dark sky (ideally the city glow is to the north and west) outside the city and dress warmly for the Geminids meteor Shower. Tonight and tomorrow night will be the best and we may actually get some clear skies in Ottawa. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

The big solar storm has arrived at earth. Unfortunately, it looks like the magnetic field is going north, which may dissipate the current Aurora.

Pretty Jupiter and two moons. Imaged from my backyard