Andromeda galaxy, taken at the Kelling star party just before dawn. I've not done much imaging using RGB filters before, so took a short series of images to test exposure and gain settings. This is only 1½ hours total exposure. I'll try and do a proper session, hopefully with better framing! 🔭

The rig I used at Kelling Heath star party during my daytime imaging session of the occultation of Venus. This image was taken a few seconds after the planet popped out from behind the Moon 🔭

Lunar occultation of Venus on Friday lunchtime. Finally got home to my PC and a chance to process my images. As it was the middle of the day, I used a red filter to increase contrast, which has helped emphasise the clouds. This is the last image I took, seconds before the planet disappeared 🔭

Venus occultation by the Moon. Just over an hour after the planet disappeared from view, it popped out again on the dark side of the Moon's disk, and the natural order was restored! This was taken a few seconds after re-emergence with my minor camera and Esprit 100 scope 🔭

Kelling Heath star party is in full swing. Yay! A last minute thought to try for the lunar occultation of Venus this afternoon. Always fun trying to image in broad daylight! Supported by my buddy Martin, @cityspaceastro.bsky.social I was actually quite pleased how it turned out! 🔭 Details in Alt

Revisited my Pacman image and reprocessed just the hydrogen and oxygen data to make an HOO palette image. Think I prefer this to the original SHO 🔭

Started a new project last night. Clouds didn't clear until gone midnight, and I had some guiding issues in the early hours of the morning just before dawn, but here is a quick stack of 2 hrs hydrogen-alpha data. The Question Mark nebula in Cepheus. Unfortunately it's too big to get it all in! 🔭

Commonly known as the Pacman nebula due its resemblance to the video game character, this is NGC 281, an emission nebula in Cassiopeia, at a distance of around 9000 light years. I took this through my small telescope during August. 15 hours total exposure, processed in the SHO Hubble palette 🔭

Pelican Nebula or should it be Pteradactyl? Wonderful gas clouds in the constellation Cygnus. 15 hours total exposure, through hydrogen, oxygen and sulphur filters to create a 'Hubble palette' image. I took this over several nights in July and August, cloud dodging the wonderful English weather 🔭

The Veil nebula is usually shown using the HOO palette, but I took 5 hrs of SII in addition to Ha and OIII, which is a shame to waste. So here it is in standard Hubble palette SHO. 5 hrs integration for each channel. Think I prefer the HOO look, but this is interesting. Love the green Ha ribbon! 🔭

Closer crop of the Eastern Veil nebula, taken over several nights in July/Aug. I love the way the blue oxygen gas seems to wrap itself around the red clouds of hydrogen. Light captured using Antlia Hydrogen alpha and Oxygen III filters and a Skywatcher Esprit scope. 🔭

The Eastern Veil nebula captured across several nights in July and August. Processed in the HOO palette, which is close to how it would look by eye. Total integration of 10 hours (5hrs H-alpha + 5hrs OIII). Taken with an Esprit 100, ASI2600MM camera and Antlia Edge 4.5nm filters 🔭

I did some filter tests at 5am this morning. Alnitak is a great target to check for haloes, which can be a real challenge for an Oxygen filter. I was quite pleased with the result. Total exposure was only 15 mins for both H alpha and Oxygen III. Orion was just above the rooftop at 20° altitude 🔭

So I've stacked my Easter Veil neb sulphur II data. 5 hours integration. Now just need to finish off collecting some Oxygen III. Can't see that happening for a few days at least 😕 🔭

Getting a bit fed up of the current spell of cloudy nights. Desperately trying to finish off collecting oxygen data for this, the East Veil nebula, before the moon becomes a nuisance and I lose this target behind my neighbours trees. Astrophotography is stressful 😄 🔭

Reprocess of NGC7331, plus supernova, and Stephan's quintet. I did this to try and develop a more standard workflow for mono RGB images, which I'm a bit new to. Not there yet, but getting close to something I'm happy with. Channel combination and calibration performed in APP 🔭

Nice surprise when I opened the latest copy of Popastro this morning. Forgotten I'd submitted this image a few months back 😄 🔭

Jupiter and Venus at 4am this morning, against a sprinkling of Gemini stars I missed out on their closest apparent approach, which was yesterday, but they'll remain very close together in the early Eastern sky for several days yet 3 moons of Jupiter are visible and labelled More in the ALT text 🔭

Seems ages since I've posted any images. This is a work in progress. 5 hrs integration of H-alpha only, colourised just for fun. I have SII data too, but will be a week or two before I can get OIII due to the Moon getting in the way! I'm juggling several incomplete projects at the moment 🔭

Love the composition and colour of this...

Moon interfering with Perseids up at the North Essex Astronomical Society Obs. #astronomy #Astrophotography

When stars go BANG! Managed to do a bit of imaging last night. This is the supernova SN2025rbs in galaxy NGC7331 in Pegasus, which outshines its host galaxy of thousands of millions of stars. Taken with an Esprit 100 refractor, ASI2600MM camera and LRGB filters. Total integration 1h 40m. 🔭

My latest #NoctilucentClouds video, from 2-3 July 2025: youtu.be/JeATWwFLcMA #NoctilucentCloud #Noctilucent #NLCs #NLC #Astronomy

Haven't shared anything for a while This is the Wizard nebula, taken over several nights over the last few weeks. 14 hrs total exposure spread equally between S,H and O filters. Stars used RGB filters Taken with my Esprit 100 refractor and ASI2600MM camera Processed with APP and Affinity 🔭

Can you see the Wizard? Very much a work in progress. 1h 40m per channel so far but needs loads more. Hopefully I'll get a few more hours on it this week 🔭

Can you see the Wizard? Very much a work in progress. 1h 40m per channel so far but needs loads more. Hopefully I'll get a few more hours on it this week 🔭

First try at the Elephant's Trunk nebula in the Hubble SHO palette. 2hrs data for each channel, collected over 3 nights last week 🔭

First try at the Elephant's Trunk nebula in the Hubble SHO palette. 2hrs data for each channel, collected over 3 nights last week 🔭

Nice sky, complete with sundog, during an evening walk in the heat 🥵🔭

Elephants Trunk nebula. Only HOO so far. Hoping to get some SII data in the next few days, cloud gods willing. Esprit 100 with ASI2600MM camera 🔭

Rework of the North America nebula using the SHO Hubble palette. My first true Hubble palette image! Esprit 100mm refractor with ASI2600MM camera 🔭

My first try at the Tulip nebula in full SHO. Taken 2 days before the shortest night of the year is not the best time to image! Very noisy and needs lots more data, but I was quite pleased considering the conditions. Roll on winter dark nights! Esprit 100 and ASI2600MM. 50 mins per filter. 🔭

Rework of the North America nebula using the SHO Hubble palette. My first true Hubble palette image! Esprit 100mm refractor with ASI2600MM camera 🔭

North America Nebula, imaged a few nights ago. Processed in HOO with only 50 mins of integration (10 subs) per channel due to lack of darkness. This is my first true narrowband mono image. Bit of a learning curve compared to what I'm used to, but good fun. Compression has killed resolution a lot 😕 🔭

I've revisited my ISS solar transit images. The detail visible is clearer when shown in mono, as captured by the camera, without artifitially colourising the image. Here's a rework... 🔭

Sun, taken in white light, a few days ago. Some nice sunspots and faculae - the bright regions near the sunspots clise to the limb. 2 panel mosaic. My first solar image using Afginity Photo! 🔭

Closer view of the ISS passing across the face of the Sun yesterday. Single video frame. Angular size of the ISS was 57.4", at a distance of 299 miles from my little scope 😄 🔭

ISS Transit across the Sun from yesterday afternoon - composite of selected frames from a 60 sec video. Details in ALT text Seeing wasn't great so many of the frames were a bit blurry. I'll take a closer look at the sharper ones for a close-up. 🔭

Waiting patiently for the International Space Station to pass in front of the Sun at 12:28. Duration of the transit is only 0.5 second. What could possibly go wrong 😬 🔭

Haven't taken any astro images lately, partly due to weather and light summer nights, but also 'cause I'm working on some new astro projects. In the meantime, here are some pretty poppies from the end of my lane, which caught my eye, and camera

Another globular cluster, M10 located in the constellation Ophiuchus. 55 minutes integrated exposure taken with an Esprit 100 scope. 🔭

My first image processed without using Photoshop! Globular cluster Messier 5, located about 25,000 light years away and containing over 100,000 stars Good fun trying to develop new workflows 🔭

Siril advice needed please! Just starting to use Siril and trying to get Graxpert installed and running from within Siril, but having problems getting it working. If there's anyone out there who uses this combo and can help show me where I'm going wrong, I'd be really grateful! Thanks 🔭🙏

My last image from yesterday morning, showing the Sun's western hemisphere. I've processed this as an inverted/negative image to create a more 3-dimensional feel, and to make the proms more visible; a method popular with many imagers 🔭

4 images of the Sun taken this morning over about 10 minutes. Considering this prom is bigger than Earth, if you look close, the changes in structure over such a short period of time are amazing! 🔭

An amazing, large and rapidly moving arched prom on the Sun early this morning. Sadly I missed the best of the show, just catching the tail-end, which was still pretty! It would've been great to see the whole event and do a timelapse. Maybe next time 🔭

The Whirlpool galaxy, Messier 51. Imaged in early April with an Esprit 100 and ASI294MC camera. 🔭

The Sun this morning. Really nice prom on the western limb 🙂 🔭

Finally processing some DSO data from Feb. The Rosette. Could only manage 10 subs so don't look too close 😬. HOO palette taken with a 294MC and L-eNhance filter on my Esprit 100 🔭

Another shot from last week's C11 session The south west terminator with prominent crater Schickard, and the curious lava-filled crater Wargentin. Celestron C11 at prime focus, with a Uranus C camera 🔭