FAR AWAY THINGS...

We host a Star Party in East England at a Dark Sky Discovery Site close to RSPB Minsmere. The sky has reached an SQM level of 21.75 magnitud...

In Early Autumn, you can catch a nice glimpse of the Milky Way in dark skies, rising from the SSW, where we look into the centre of the gala...

Apologies for being away for a year and a half! The gaps between my blog posts have been growing wider and wider. In the meantime I've b...

Here are my ISS images through my 8" SCT. The first was taken on January 17th at about 5:30 am. It was spooky watching for it as the s...

After a warm and cosy hour's sleep, I forced myself to get out of bed to catch this rare occurrence. I think UK has been a bit unlucky w...

We went on a drive up the spine of the UK to Kielder Water - and took advantage of the dark sky park status. These are some pictures we took...

  Hello. I've just moved and I thought I'd do a spot of astro reconnaisance of my new sector. After checking out Google Maps/Ear...

This nebula, which first appeared to humanity in 1654, by Italian astronomer Hodierna, was catalogued by Charles Messier as his eighth ent...

While the rings are nice and open like they were in 2003, this time round, Saturn has moved South, Causing it to glide through the murky, ...

With a bit of stacking and processing, Norwich is beginning to look like some sort of dark rural location. I'm lucky to live on a street...

The "top right" bit of the moon on April 26th with the colour saturation enhanced by 500%. Maximum libration point was just beyond...

Mercury above the rooftops at 21:56 BST 13th May. Snapped by poking my telephoto lens out of my bathroom window. ISO1600 f/5 1/15". It...

The night of April 11 was a nice little trip to the observatory, watching Venus and the Pleiades setting over the dome. I settled on this pi...

Here's an example of where reality can get close to the simulation. I got some good seeing, and with a decent camera (a ZWO ASI) I got a...

Yeah! There are still parts of England that have escaped enough the scourge of light pollution, so that the zodiacal light can be photograph...

Here's my attempt at Comet Lovejoy via my 8" SCT, with 2 focal reducers at f/4. The image on my DSLR is vignetted at this focal l...

I popped down the observatory to try some solar imaging with the sun low in the sky Sunday 8th Feb. After dodging clouds, I was amazed to ...

When testing and setting up guiding and imaging with the Atik 383L camera on the C925 on the iOptron mount, you have to go for a nice brig...

I got up at 3:30 a.m., venturing out into a frosty January night to the society's observatory. After dragging out the Celestron 9 inch...

Our skies are graced with another comet. It is a bit difficult for us to see in the North at the moment, but will move out of the low mist...

After a successful forecast of reasonable seeing conditions in the UK (i.e. low 300 mbar geostrophic wind) I spent an evening at the observa...

I went to a local hilltop near the student residences in order to try and get a 360º panorama of the sky with my Canon 18mm lens, on a moo...

  This is a quick and crude process of some stacked images of the Horsehead nebula. I took them through the 20 inch with the Canon 1000...

While testing my planetary imaging demo for the talk I'm giving next month (see: http://www.brecklandastro.org.uk/meetings/  ) I spo...

A night at the observatory and a moonless clear spell coincided! Not wanting to waste the opportunity I wheeled the society's new iOpt...

  During the light nights of summer here in the UK, planets are an ideal target. Unfortunately, we are also rather far North for good pl...

I managed somehow to get an image out of the 20 inch scope after its drive rebuild. It has been out of action for imaging for months. The ...

The area in central Auriga featuring open clusters M36 & M38, IC 417 (around central star, phi Aurigae), IC 405 and IC410 - the flamin...

I "videoed" Jupiter on the 8 inch Schmidt-cassegrain at the observatory tonight (11th March 2013). I got better results with jus...

Yeah! I caught a glimpse of the Northern Lights for the first time this solar 'season' on Thurs 27 Mar 22UT. It was not too impres...

I have had another go at processing the twelve 30-second (dark-subtracted jpeg) exposures that I took of the Milky Way setting over the B...

It's not live as we know it, Jim. It happened 11.4 million years ago. But - that's using our human concept of time. In reality tim...

November 13th brought a favourable libration around the eastern limb of the moon so I couldn't resist taking a few videos on the Imagi...

The Helix Nebula, a large death shroud of a star, floats across the Southern sky in October and November and never climbs higher than abou...