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

All night timelapse from 12/13 August 2025 on the peak of the #Perseids #MeteorShower. I had 2 cameras running from dusk until dawn, a total of 3,434 x 13 second shots. Out of those I got a dozen meteors + plenty of satellites/aircraft! Music by Dave Simpson.

All night timelapse from 12/13 August 2025 on the peak of the #Perseids #MeteorShower. I had 2 cameras running from dusk until dawn, a total of 3,434 x 13 second shots. Out of those I got a dozen meteors + plenty of satellites/aircraft! Music by Dave Simpson.

I've just published a video round up of the #meteors captured on DSLR and on our 4 #MeteorCameras on the night of 12/13 Aug, the peak of the #Perseids #MeteorShower. I've included meteor camera images from 3 nights following the peak because rates were still high. Watch here: youtu.be/UWRVPdBlRFw

5hr 50min #circumpolar + 1 hr #CelestialEquator #StarTrails from #Oxfordshire, UK 12/13 Aug '25. It's been a while since I did this particular kind of creative edit. 2,117 images from 2 Canon 1100D cameras were used to make the video. Music by Dave Simpson #StarStaX

5hr 50min #circumpolar + 1 hr #CelestialEquator #StarTrails from #Oxfordshire, UK 12/13 Aug '25. It's been a while since I did this particular kind of creative edit. 2,117 images from 2 Canon 1100D cameras were used to make the video. Music by Dave Simpson #StarStaX

We caught a couple of #sprites on our NE facing meteor camera in North Oxfordshire, UK on 13th August 2025, I believe they were above a #ThunderStorm over Lincolnshire about 170km away. The larger one was at 23:54:48 UT and the smaller one at 01:27:53 UT #TransientLuminousEvent

Wowzers!!! Mark has created an all-sky track-stack of the #Perseids caught on all 4 of our #GMN #MeteorCameras in #Oxfordshire. Over 1,000 #Meteors over the whole night of 12/13 Aug '25. These stacks clear show the #MeteorShower radiant!

Here are the track-stacks from our #GMN #UKMON #MeteorCameras from overnight 12/13 Aug 2025. Despite the moonlight, they captured so many #meteors! Most of them are #Perseids but there are new Kappa Cygnids + sporadics. Dotted lines are aircraft #Perseids2025 #MeteorShower

Out of almost 4,000 images with 2 #Canon1100D cameras I captured 15 #Perseid #Meteors overnight 12/13 Aug from #Oxfordshire, UK. Here are the brightest 4 #PerseidsMeteorShower #Perseids2025

If you're not able to get out to observe the Perseids tonight, Mark is livestreaming the view from one of our meteor cameras on his YT channel. The stream starts at 10:15pm BST. Here's the link: tinyurl.com/4zj8xar4

This graphic & similar have flooded social media this week. It's false; meteors are NOT fireworks! The colour of a meteor is almost always caused by ionization of atmospheric oxygen or nitrogen, not the chemical composition of the meteoroid. Rare exceptions are bright fireballs

This is utterly amazing!

Back in February I took a series of 'star squiggles' photos, where I did 3.2sec exposure while wobbling the tripod to capture scintillation in the trails and the general star colour. I included Mars and Jupiter to show that planets do not scintillate. This was just a bit of creative fun

2 hours NW facing & 1hr 35 min W facing #StarTrails captured from #Oxfordshire overnight 10/11 Aug '25 with 2 different #Canon1100Ds + 18-55mm lens. 1st is 632 x 10sec, 2nd is 531 x 10sec, stacked with 30 darks in #StarStaX

1 #SporadicMeteor + 2 #Perseids captured from #Oxfordshire overnight 10/11 Aug '25 with DSLR + #MeteorCamera. I've including the ground tracks + the all night stacks & track-stacks. Rates were down because of moonlight + clouds #Perseids2025 This is a very low res version because of file size limits

I also caught 2 #PerseidMeteors last night from #Oxfordshire UK, at 00:07 UT / 01:07 BST & 00:17 UT / 01:17 BST 11th Aug '25. 10sec ISO800 f/3.5. Both were captured on our NW facing #MeteorCamera #Perseids2025 #Perseids #MeteorShower

I got a nice #Sporadic #Meteor last night from #Oxfordshire at 22:33 UT / 23:33 BST. It was also picked up on our NW facing #MeteorCamera. The monochrome image is the meteor cam, colour is my DSLR photo, ISO-800 10sec f/3.5

These are the track-stacks from our 4 #GMN #RaspberryPi #MeteorCameras in Oxfordshire, UK from 9/10 Aug '25. These clearly show which events are #Perseids and which aren't.

I may have had slim pickings overnight 9/10 Aug on my DSLR images, but our #GMN #RaspberryPi #MeteorCameras did much better! These are the all night captured stacks from each of our cameras in North Oxfordshire. Dotted lines are aircraft that were in shot at the same time as a meteor

Just two faint #Meteors captured last night (out of 2,200 photos!). A #Perseid at 22:14UT/23:14 BST + a sporadic at 02:16UT/03:16BST. Both were captured on our GMN meteor cameras so they're definitely meteors

6hr #StarTrails + overnight timelapse from #Oxfordshire 9/10 Aug '25. Star trails was 1,970x10sec + 35 darks, all night was 2,136x10sec, ISO400 f/3.5. I only got 2 faint meteors on camera in all of those images! Music by Dave Simpson

2hr 10min #StarTrails under a Full Moon, 8th August 2025. #Canon1100D 18-55mm lens. 695 x 10sec ISO-400 f/3.5 stacked with 35 darks using #StarStaX You can see the bright #Perseid that occurred at 22:14 UT / 23:14 BST on the bottom right.

2hr 10min #StarTrails under a Full Moon, 8th August 2025. #Canon1100D 18-55mm lens. 695 x 10sec ISO-400 f/3.5 stacked with 35 darks using #StarStaX

Very short #IonizationCloud left behind after the #Perseid #Meteor at 22:15UT/23:14BST 8th August 2025. #Canon1100D with 18-55mm lens, 10sec shots at ISO-400 f/3.5 because of the Full Moon bleaching the sky. #Perseids2025 #PerseidsMeteorShower #MeteorShower

I caught three #PerseidMeteors overnight 8th/9th Aug '25 - confirmed by UK #MeteorCameras. The 1st was 22:14, 2nd at 02:32, 3rd at 02:46 - times in GMT/UT which is 1 hour behind BST. #Canon1100D 10 sec ISO400 f/3.5 #MeteorShower #Perseids2025 #Perseids

I managed to catch this bright #Perseid meteor last night, despite the bright Moon in the sky. If you don't go out, you won't see anything 😄. #Astronomy #Astrophotography #Perseids #PerseidMeteorShower