Gazing at the Ring Nebula #M57 tonight! 🌌 This cosmic smoke ring, a dying star's farewell, is a beautiful reminder of the universe's cycle of birth and death, one of my favourite DSO objects. #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup @liverpoolas.org

So been able to get 2 full nights now on the Drako Triplet, here's both nights images 5hrs then 10hrs #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup @liverpoolas.org

Done a quick stack and process of the Drako Triplet from last night, 1 lenticular in NGC5981 2 elliptical in NGC5982 3 NGC5985 a barred spiral Will get another night of data tonight. #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup @liverpoolas.org

Such short nights now, only about 2 hours of astronomical darkness currently and getting shorter 😔 Here's my image of the sunflower galaxy from last month with 4 hrs of data. #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup @liverpoolas.org

Inspired to go for the Draco triplet as we come to the end of #Galaxy season, so going to get a couple of nights on this interesting collection. #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup @liverpoolas.org

Looking for the next available clear night to run our next #livestream of the Sky at Night magazine's Deep Sky Tour for May. Subscribe and select reminder to see when it will occur: @liverpoolas.org #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space youtube.com/@paramountob...

Sunrise to Sunset on the Martian Mimetolith This particular mesa acquired a certain notoriety when an image was captured by the Viking 1 orbiter on 25 July 1976. The shadows cast across the feature created a pareidolic perception of a human face. More: uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_08... #Mars

With clear skies, I was able to get over 4hrs on #M63 the 'Sunflower Galaxy'. Located about 27 million light-years away. Its bright yellow core and spiraling arms dotted with young blue stars make it a photogenic beauty. #Astrophotography #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour @liverpoolas.org

A spell of much warmer weather is on the way next week 📈 As the jet stream becomes more amplified this weekend, a 'blocked' weather pattern will develop across northwest Europe - but how long this lasts for is uncertain

i love that we got 4 new hubble images today and we still continue to get more after 35 years 🥹 hubble really is the little telescope that could!!!

A bit of a reprocess of last night's Mars and the Beehive pic. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

A great talk from yesterday which you can still watch in full

The Hubble Space Telescope turns 35 this week. To celebrate, here's one of its most iconic photographs: the Pillars of Creation. These pillars are actually star-forming regions of gas and dust, and from top to bottom are more than FIVE LIGHTYEARS tall—farther than the distance to our nearest star.

Adjacent lectures rooms at University of Liverpool; ancient skills and astronomy I’m currently between Rocks and Hard Space

"Preventing the addition of new debris is no longer sufficient. We must now actively clean up the space environment to halt the onset of a chain reaction that could render heavily utilised regions unusable. Immediate and decisive action is necessary." Read the ESA Space Environment Report 2025 👇

BIG NEWS for all UK Astonomy/Space outreachers and non-formal communicators. We have a new email list! A friendly supportive space for sharing ideas, resources, successes, and training opportunities (incl. upcoming free online events from ASDC and RAS). Sign up at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/astromailbox

Done a cleanup and new stack of #Jupiter taken 27/02/2025 18:59 GMT from backyard #ParamountObservatory #Liverpool #UK #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup @liverpoolas.org

Our free, public lectures continue tomorrow evening with Prof. Julian Onions PhD FRAS of the University of Nottingham (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) & his talk, "Crazy Interstellar Rockets!" No need to book. Details: liverpoolas.org/event/monthl... #astronomy #outreach #rockets #lecture #liverpool

During our recent period of clear skies I was able to gather lots of time #M81 #Bodes #Galaxy At its core lies a supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of around 70 million times that of our Sun! #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup @liverpoolas.org

I have edited our ' Galaxy Quest' live stream down to a short 2 minute edit. All 6 Objects in detail: youtu.be/XHnEyMtHw_E?... #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup @liverpoolas.org

Have been able to spend more time today working on last night's image of #M51 with over 9 hrs of integration, I have been able to pull out a lot more detail and colour. (More details in Alt) #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup @liverpoolas.org

Another clear night here in #Liverpool, #UK so decided to spent the night on #M51 the Whirlpool galaxy. The galaxy is surrounded by a dark, rich, cosmic background filled with faint galaxies and the light from stars in the distant universe. #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour @liverpoolas.org

The Black Eye Galaxy is a fascinating spiral galaxy notable for its striking dark dust lane and its unusual internal dynamics resulting from a past galactic merger. This is a stack of 30x5 mins from last night. #Astrophotography #Astronomy #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup @liverpoolas.org

If you missed the LIVE-STREAM of our Galaxy Quest, the replay is available now to view: www.youtube.com/live/veKFCWe... #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup @liverpoolas.org And keep an eye out for our next event.

These are the details of tonights live stream, please join us tonight at 21:15 GMT as we do our 'Galaxy Quest' take 2 🙂🔭 www.youtube.com/live/4XEtG4-... #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup @liverpoolas.org

Last night's broadcast had issues, so going to run it again tonight as the forecast is good again. Will post an update and link once setup, maybe share with followers? @liverpoolas.org @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social @stormhour.bsky.social @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social

The details of tonight's livestream are: www.youtube.com/live/ikKrJIR... The plan is to run through the #Skyatnight magazines, deep-sky tour for April 2025. Details of objects are on P56 of magazine if you want to follow along. #Astrophotography #Astronomy #lookup @liverpoolas.org

Got the ADC working sort of last night. Pretty good seeing too. This is best Image of Jupiter I have managed to get so far using my 6" SCT. Calisto nearest Jupiter on the left Io on the right. #astronomy #astrophotography #Jupiter

Took a look a Venus earlier. Daytime astrophotography feels weird to me 😂, it was fun though!

👀 By repeatedly training Hubble on Uranus over 20 years, astronomers have gained new understanding of the ice world’s complex atmosphere: bit.ly/4hVo8ih 🔭 🧪

Welcome to our Bluesky Channel! Here you’ll hear of breakthroughs fresh from the labs of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). Follow for news from scientific disciplines collaborating to tackle the big questions. For a start, we´ll tickle your curiosity with a tour through ISTA.

Meet Polaris, the North Star. It's not the brightest star in the sky, but it's within a degree of the north celestial pole. buff.ly/PO446nK . . #astronomy #stargazing #northstar #polaris

An ultra-high-energy neutrino, a galactic PeVatron, and a fading quasar at cosmic dawn are the subjects of today’s Monthly Roundup. aasnova.org/2025/03/31/m... 🔭🧪

Today, @fcain.universetoday.com & I record ep **750** of @astronomycast.com. While the number is one of those numbers human brains deem as special, we don't have anything special planned; it's just another day to talk science. Topic: SN Early Warning System www.youtube.com/live/AEugVwl...

Fingers crossed for the weather for @paramountobs.bsky.social ! Also the Moon will be occulting (going in front of) the Pleiades ("the seven sisters"l star cluster tonight, approx 21:30-23:30

I have put together an edited version of yesterday's live view of the solar eclipse from #Liverpool #uk we had a lot of cloud, so trimmed out a lot of that. It's no challenger to @dylanodonnell.bsky.social or @astrobackyard.bsky.social hope you like it? @liverpoolas.org youtu.be/9-BcDqsYzf8?...

I am broadcasting the #Solar #Eclipse now if you'd like to take a look? #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup @liverpoolas.org @dylanodonnell.bsky.social @astrobackyard.bsky.social youtube.com/live/2F6pC2Y...

Just noticed that the #ISS will pass very close to #Jupiter shortly, so hopefully, will try and video the pass 🤞 it's dark enough to capture. #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup @liverpoolas.org

🚀 Blast off to Jodrell Bank this February #halfterm for an out-of-this-world adventure the whole family will enjoy! 🎟️ www.jodrellbank.net/events/febru...

We spent a very enjoyable day at Norton Priory museum, for their Astronomy Day to celebrate Luke Jerram's giant Mars hanging in the atrium. Children took home sparkling✨ constellations, 🌠 and 🪐🌕 mobiles. Grownups looked at phone apps and affordable telescopes. #Astronomy #Mars

See that bright, glowing object with a tail? That's not a comet. That's the planet Mercury.

Having spent sometime imaging #jupiter I do struggle to post process the data, so seeing this video explains a lot, and get why you'd use a B&W camera rather than a colour, take a look. #Astrophotography #Astronomy #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour @liverpoolas.org youtube.com/watch?v=D36t...

Great video from @drbecky.bsky.social about spiral galaxies and why they're not as simple as they look. #astronomy #cosmology #gravity #darkmatter #space #galaxies www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK0e...

Thanks for all the follows recently! It's great to see a nice little community building up over here!

Just a reminder to #uk , we have Nation Astronomy Week 1st to 9th of Feb. This is always a reminder to me to #lookup and remind myself why I started this hobby and reconnect again 🔭 #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour @liverpoolas.org astronomyweek.org.uk

This is really #impressive, considering Sunni should not even be up there right now👏 #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup #ISS @liverpoolas.org www.nasa.gov/image-detail...

Discover the story behind the SKA in a new book "The Square Kilometre Array: A Science Mega-Project in the Making, 1990-2012". Written by Richard Schilizzi & colleagues, it chronicles the early days of this global collaboration. The PDF is free to download link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Wouldn't you love to travel to all the planets of the solar system by balloon and electric elephant? (1904, by Frances Trego Montgomery) 🧪📚💙🪐

Been a few days, but got some clear skies tonight. This is tonight's plan: 1. Horsehead Nebula 2. Rosette Nebula 3. The Eyes (NGC 4435) Will post a screenshot when I start each object. #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #StormHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #lookup @liverpoolas.org