A selection of my Hallowe'en make up looks to date. There's a gap for tomorrow in the bottom corner - what will it be? ;-) #Halloween #MakeUp

I took part in a #Halloween collaboration video and I made a #DeepSpace #nebula inspired #skull and #pumpkin trinket box. I am so in love with the results! The video is live on my art & craft channel now but here's a short video showing the finished pieces 🥰

Creation timelapse of my pastel drawing of a 95% #WaxingGibbousMoon which was a wedding gift for my friend. Now I have finally given them the gift I can share the video. Music is by Dave Simpson #AstronomySketching #MoonArt #LunarArt #SpaceArt #AstronomyDrawing #PastelArt

My friend Claire got married earlier this year and my gift was a #PastelDrawing of the #Moon on their wedding day, 95% #WaxingGibbous. I was finally able to give them their gift yesterday so I can now share the photo #AstronomySketching #MoonArt #LunarArt #PastelArt

On 21st October I took over 900 photos of #Comet #C2025A6 (Lemmon) from Oxfordshire, UK and created a timelapse with the images. You can watch the video here: youtu.be/fjCoysw2J_A

#Comet #C2025A6 #Lemmon from #Oxfordshire, UK 21 Oct '25. #Canon1100D 50mm lens, 122x10sec, ISO-800 f/2.2, total exposure 20min 20sec. I observed it visually with 15x70 binos & my observed tail length was about 1 deg 15min, but the ion tail is ~13 degrees on the stacked image!

9 years married to my soulmate 🥰❤️🧡💛💚💙 Happy Anniversary Mark xxx

17yrs ago today I had mega spinal surgery to rip out failed hardware fitted in '04 & replace it with titanium screws, rods + bone graft from my hip. I lost so much blood I needed a transfusion afterwards. The X-ray shows my old spinal cord stimulator fitted in 2010; I now have a different SCS.

Here's the big reveal of my #Miniature #Apothecary shop made by upcycling a 2024 #TedBaker beauty #AdventCalendar box. Aside from the skull, all shelf contents were made from scratch. So much work went into it and I doubt I will ever love anything I've made as much I love this! #Halloween

My video premier begins in 2 minutes! Come along and see how I turned an old Advent calendar into a miniature apothecary shop: youtu.be/LL6M5Bm_mBY?...

TONIGHT at 7pm UK join me in the YT live chat as I premier my latest #Halloween video. I upcycled an old Advent calendar into a miniature #ApothecaryShop. It's my favourite thing I've ever made! Grab a cuppa and join me here: youtu.be/LL6M5Bm_mBY?...

I've been sharing some more cute Hallowe'en themed projects over on my craft YT channel. Using low cost ice cube moulds I made some lovely hanging decorations and an army of 13 ghosts. I also made a skull that has hints of iridescent colour when you catch it in the right light

As well as the anniversary of the epic aurora display, I can now wish happy 1st Birthday to the UK version of the Collins Stargazer's Bible, which was published on 10th October 2024 🥰

I just shared a photo collage from the mega #AuroraBorealis display we had on 10th October 2024. I couldn't upload my video because of file size limits, but you can watch the full video here: youtu.be/9FkNW9i6FIk?... #NorthernLights #MidLattitudeAurora #Aurora

1 yr ago today we had the 2nd 'once in a lifetime' #AuroraBorealis display from North Oxfordshire, UK in just 7 months! We had dusk 'til dawn aurora on 10 May & 10 Oct '24 but the colours & structures were more impressive in October. Here are some highlights pics as my video is too big to upload

I had such a fun time doing a double session in a school today, covering astrophotography tips + astronomy coursework stuff. The students were impeccably behaved (especially given the fact this was a two hour session in total!) and my day was made brighter by seeing my lovely friend Kat 😊

On 6 Oct the almost full #Perigee #Moon produced some spectacular #lunar #AtmosphericOptics. Very bright right side #paraselene (#moondog) with long #ParaselenicCircle fragment, very prominent lunar #CircumzenithalArc, #UpperTangentArc. Our Auroracam also caught a 120deg paraselene Oxfordshire, UK!

Trio of #galaxies; #M81, #M82 and #NGC3077 taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a 70mm refractor and Canon 1100D. 45x60sec at ISO-1600, stacked with 25 darks.

From 3 years ago, #IC1805 The #HeartNebula, an emission #nebula in #Cassiopeia. Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a 70mm refractor, astro-modded Canon 1100D + Altair Quad Band filter. 70 x 3 minutes at ISO-3200 + 30 darks, total integration time 3hr 30min.

#Messier33 the #TriangulumGalaxy. Taken from #Oxfordshire, UK with a small refractor & standard #Canon1100D, 45 x 60 seconds at ISO-1600, total integration time 45 minutes #M33 #Galaxy #Astrophotography

#VeilNebula complex, taken from Oxfordshire, UK. 70mm refractor, 0.8x focal reducer, #AltairQuadband filter + astro-modded #Canon1100D. Shot during summer, 45x120sec ISO-1600. I removed the stars before processing & merged back in at the end, but I need far more practice at that!

This afternoon I had a lovely session in a local school, teaching a lesson on the Moon and how to create a simple lunar Crater sketch. The class was so well behaved, they produced some fantastic drawings and they had lots of brilliant general astronomy questions at the end 🥰

4 years ago I created this pastel drawing of the lunar crater named for #CarolineHerschel. From Earth it's a small crater with little detail visible so I used an #LRO photo as my reference. #AstronomySketching #SpaceArt #LunarCraterSketch #CraterDrawing

A little #moonrise time lapse from 8th September🌝 #Moon

My latest video on my craft channel was all about autumn leaves. I made two different resin leaf trinket trays and lots of smaller leaves in a variety of colours, finished with a bit of gold gilding wax. Watch the video here: youtu.be/GYx25Ihvmus?...

This is what a newly launched batch of Starlink satellites looks like on our #MeteorCameras. All night stacked images are from 21 Sept '25, Oxfordshire, UK. Behind the crud the cameras captured 127 & 160 meteors respectively. Fortunately RMS software is good at filtering out junk

I absolutely love making #autumn / #fall themed stuff so a couple of weeks ago I made #PineCones two ways, the 1st were made from a felt kit, the 2nd with epoxy resin. Such different results but I love both! Here's the creation video: youtu.be/pFfLZ73jdTs?...

Happy #WorldIridiumFlareDay! I took 234 #IridiumFlare photos prior to the final flaring satellite deorbit in Dec 2019. I have fond memories of tracking them down. Share your Iridium Flare photos below! #Flarewell #iridiumComm #IridiumBoss My longer video: tinyurl.com/3ruwjwsn

Several hours of work condensed into a minute! Here is a timelapse of me creating the 1% #WaningCrescent #Moon #PastelDrawing I shared yesterday. Pastels + Posca paint pen on black paper #AstronomySketching #SpaceArt #MoonArt #MoonDrawing

Happy 1st Birthday to the USA/Canada edition of the Stargazer's Bible, which was launched on 17th September 2024 (the UK version came out a couple of weeks later). I can't believe it's already been a year. I have loved hearing how much people are enjoying the book 🥰

#PastelDrawing of a 1% #WaningCrescent #Moon with #Earthshine. This is the slimmest crescent moon I've ever drawn! I was asked to create it for a ten year wedding anniversary gift as it shows the #Moon on the couple's wedding day #SpaceArt #MoonArt #MoonDrawing #AstronomyDrawing #PastelArt

2hr 15min #CelestialEquator #StarTrails #timelapse, 16 Aug '25. My camera was pointing south at the celestial equator. I stacked the images in StarStaX, saving the cumulative files to create this timelapse. 315 x 25 sec, #Canon1100D +10mm lens. Music by Doctor Turtle

2hr 15min #StarTrails, pointing south at the #CelestialEquator + the #MilkyWay. Images taken on 16 Aug '25 from my garden in #Oxfordshire, UK. #Canon1100D + 10mm lens, 315 x 25 sec, stacked using #StarStaX

#MilkyWay from North #Oxfordshire, taken mid-August. 50x25sec ISO-1600 f/4.5. #Canon1100D + #Canon 10-18mm lens, stacked using #Sequator making use of the freeze foreground tool. The light pollution removal also helped to bring out lots more Milky Way detail

#MilkyWay #timelapse from North #Oxfordshire, 16 Aug '25. Video created with 317x25sec shots, ISO-1600 f/4.5, #Canon1100D + #Canon 10-18mm lens. Music is 'Sleep' by Dave Simpson

#MilkyWay #timelapse from North #Oxfordshire, 16 Aug '25. Video created with 317x25sec shots, ISO-1600 f/4.5, #Canon1100D + #Canon 10-18mm lens. Music is 'Sleep' by Dave Simpson

#MilkyWay from North #Oxfordshire, taken mid-August. 50x25sec ISO-1600 f/4.5. #Canon1100D + #Canon 10-18mm lens, stacked using #Sequator making use of the freeze foreground tool. The light pollution removal also helped to bring out lots more Milky Way detail

Pretty spectacular distant #cloud and #RainShower to the east of us today! Taken from #Oxfordshire UK at 16:55 BST 9 Sept 2025 🍄 Photos taken with a #Fairphone4 smartphone camera #Weather #CloudAppreciation

Pretty spectacular distant #cloud and #RainShower to the east of us today! Taken from #Oxfordshire UK at 16:55 BST 9 Sept 2025 🍄 Photos taken with a #Fairphone4 smartphone camera #Weather #CloudAppreciation

Last night I recorded a VLOG while trying to capture the #LunarEclipse so if you like that kind of thing, check out the video on my YT channel here: youtu.be/YpWh8Nsr9iw?...

All of my lunar eclipse photos from last night made into a short animation 🌝#lunareclipse #eclipse #moon

25 minutes of last night's #LunarEclipse condensed into 12 sec. Canon 1100D + Sigma 300mm zoom lens, static tripod. I centred/cropped the 127 images & turned them into a video using PIPP. Images are straight off the camera, no processing. #Oxfordshire, UK #TotalLunareclipse

#LunarEclipse from North #Oxfordshire. I missed totality but the #Moon popped out from behind the cloud bank so I got some photos of most of the second half :) #Eclipse #LunarEclipse2025

#LunarEclipse from North #Oxfordshire. I missed totality but the #Moon popped out from behind the cloud bank so I got some photos of most of the second half :) #Eclipse #LunarEclipse2025

Last October I made an octopus flat ride addition for my haunted fairground. The video showing how I did it is going live at 4pm UK time, 3pm UTC Sunday 24th August. It was total chaos but I got something done! youtu.be/N9MeVB7Vr1M?...

Here is a snippet of our new collab video where we attempted some #AstronomySketching - whilst blindfolded! Huge thanks to Mark Radice for humouring me on this, it was hilarious 😆 Full video here: youtu.be/wPtKeAraluw?...

New collab video with Mark at Refreshing Views is going live today, Fri 22 Aug at 6pm UK time (5pm UTC/GMT). Mark was a great sport going with my crazy idea to have a go at some #AstronomySketching while blindfolded...😂 Join me in the live chat here: youtu.be/wPtKeAraluw

A year ago today, 21 Aug '24 I was up at stupid o'clock to image the #LunarOccultation of #Saturn. I was battling thin cloud, low altitude & dawn light so I was glad to have managed to get these images of Saturn's egress. I made a howler of ingress! #Moon #Occultation

The beautiful #Corona during #Totality of the #TotalSolarEclipse on 21st August 2017. This is an HDR merge of 4 different exposures, taken hand-held,with a #Canon1100D with 300mm zoom lens. They were taken from #GlendoStatePark Wyoming USA #Eclipse2017

On this day in 2017 we were in #GlendoStatePark, Wyoming for the #TotalSolarEclipse. It was such an incredible experience 🥰 Here are the 2 diamond rings either side of #totality. #Canon1100D 300mm lens, hand-held! #SolarEclipse2017