Colourful Conjunction

Regulus and Mars A few days ago I took this image of the star Regulus with the planet Mars sailing … More

Southern Cross

Crux Constellation Crux is the smallest of the eighty-eight constellations but is an iconic southern constellation. It lies in the … More

Thermo-nuclear explosion in our sky, coming soon. 💥

A pair of unrelated objects, just four arc-minutes apart

The brightest visible star in the night sky, circled by a stunning blue and green atmospheric ring phenomena.

Alpha Centauri – our nearest star system.

Conjunction!

A nearby triple star system.

Proxima Centauri, a tiny faint red M type star.

The Pleiades is a cluster of stars in the constellation of Taurus, relatively close to Earth – and is a … More

This was a thirty second snap taken during the period while I was imaging Comet 46P/Wirtanen through my SkyWatcher ED120 … More

Some of my recent astro-images with the Canon 60D camera – no telescope and no light pollution filter. The star … More

My first nova, TCP J18102829-2729590, an 8th-9th magnitude object in the Sagittarius “Teapot” asterism. This cropped image was taken with … More

Acrux, also known as Alpha Crucis is the brightest star of the constellation of Crux, the Southern Cross. It is … More

Some unguided (hence short exposure) wide field images taken with my Canon 60D and Sigma 50mm f/1.8 lens: All images … More