FAR AWAY THINGS...

Hi, I was expecting good things if clear in Wales, and I was rather disappointed by the Brecon Beacons Dark Sky park. It had a large amou...

Here's the view when I returned to the tent on the cliff top at Three Cliffs Bay, The Gower, Wales (30 second shot). A view I first ...

Some views of the sky from the North-West valley slide in Hay-on-Wye. Looking SSW (toward the Brecon Beacons dark sky park), SSE and...

In keeping with the original theme of my blog, I have been taking some "easy" shots of scenes recently, as the 20 inch isn't...

Hiya, Havent posted for a while. I have been moving. Closer to the observatory. Yes! But I'm all back and doing proper astronomy agai...

For a change, I'm adding a planetary image, obtained using the society's Celestron 9.25" f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope. I...

Here's around 50 minutes of footage of the asteroid 1998 QE2 drifting by us on the evening of the 2nd of June. I recorded 10 second ex...

The asterism Czernik 11 pictured here, lies within the myriad stars in Cassiopeia, a constellation with the Milky Way running through it. ...

Here is the central massive elliptical galaxy in the Virgo Cluster. M87 is huge and has an active nucleus (supermassive black hole) that i...

This is the southern pinwheel galaxy, M83, taken from the northern latitude of 52½ºN. It was under 7º above the southeastern horizon when ...

This pair of galaxies are M66 and M65, which are on the left and the right respectively. They are located in the eastern part of the const...

I was getting aurora alerts on my phone and with activity having been raging at Kp=10 all day and evening I couldn't resist driving No...

On Tuesday night I placed my 8" telescope, roughly aligned, outside the observatory and attached the Canon 1000D to the photo bracket ...

I popped out to a local hill on the edge of Mousehold Heath within the city of Norwich and took a series of 36 pictures of the comet with ...

Apologies but I'm preparing a talk for an exhibition of all BAS's work on Saturday at Norwich arts centre 2 pm. Also,thrweather has ...

After the exciting news of the Russian meteor we finally got to seethe asteroid 2012 DA14. We used the 20" and thanks to our in-house ...

I finally found my fifth moon of Jupiter! It's called Himalia, and lives about a degree away from Jupiter in the sky. We recently ope...

At last! A snippet of clear sky between fast-changing clouds. Enough to grab a few 30 second exposures of a weird little nebula, IC 426. I...

Well as usual in the British Isles, it has been cloudy. Very cloudy. Especially when the moon is out of the way. Anyway, I haven't blo...

I finally got all 6 of my pics of different parts of this supernova remnant processed, including the flat field calibration frames I took ...

Taken through the 20 inch scope, the ISS (space station) passed first 350 miles from the observatory, then went round the earth and passed...

In autumn, our planet's orbit takes us into such a position that looking away from the sun is out of the plane of the Milky Way. Spr...

Palomar 8 is a globular cluster orbiting our galaxy that we see as its passing through the galactic plane. This means it has lots of dust ...

Ka-pow! Another piece of space flotsam slams into the upper atmosphere at supersonic speed. This one, a remnant of comet 109P Swift-Tuttle...

When I say 'neighbour' here I mean JUST 3 million light years away. Our 20" telscope has had some structural work done and w...

What with the consistent beautiful clear weather we've had following months of persitent rain and cloud, the guaranteed clear skies ha...

I had to take the opportunity of a clear night to get a picture of this lovely object with my little 8" Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope...

We were due, at shortly after 3 am Sunday July 15 for the moon to pass over half of the planet Jupiter. This view was only visible in a sh...

I was recently reminded of the song Far Out by Blur  in which the star Wolf 359 is mentioned. I remembered that I had located it and tak...

Hurrah! I get a lovely feeling when these return. It's almost like the Gods are happy. I didn't see any last year, which is unusua...

Just before I took this picture, I had driven 150 miles to find clear enough weather. It was around 5:10 am, the birds were singing and ...

No it's not the moon! I filmed Venus using our society's Imaging Source DBK camera while it was right near the Sun in the after...

On a sunny saturday afternoon Andy SMSed me about doing a bit of solar astronomy. We got down the observatory and I got the 20" on Ve...

For the first time, I've imaged a jet from a supermassive black hole. This one lies at the centre of the elliptical galaxy M87 in Vir...

The so called Integral sign galaxy (UGC 3697) is actually a mirror image of one. All the same, it is a beautiful thing to photograph a...

This would be an impossible conjunction, mainly because of the fact that the bluish star, zeta Boötis is out of the plane of the Solar sys...

Here, we are peering slightly around the north east (top right) side of the moon, due to it's slightly wobbly path around us here on E...

Now here's a far away thing. NGC 5701. I heard this 'little' thing had a detached ring around it so I thought I'd add it to ...

I popped over the obs. this afternoon and did some imaging of the sun with the Gordon-cam, a portable DBK colour camera designed to run in p...

I'd known about this conjunction of Mars and some galaxies for a while, but I missed the close pass due to cloud and caught this wider g...