An interesting #sunset, followed by the setting #Venus and crescent #Moon. #timelapse #astronomy

Globular Cluster M3 in the constellation Canes Venatici. #astronomy #astrophotography

Currently onboard #WCRDarkTrain Px 12 by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving "Part 3" by Three Fields. Fantastic stuff! 🌃🚂🎼🎵🎹😎
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Running upon the wires this Moonday evening is an awesome mix from Black Pylon, which is a nascent cassette label by Nicholas Langley and Lee Pylon.
Departing UFO Central (@warminsterradio) y Radio MINERVA at 2200 BST//1800 ART
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Pleased to share that our new book chapter has been published online in "Harmony of the Spheres: Recent and Ancient Perspectives". We feel privileged to contribute to this evolving dialogue, bridging ancient philosophical perspectives, modern science and contemporary artistic practice.
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Just pulling out of UFO Central on board #WCRDarkTrain Px11 by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving "Warmth" by Appleblim. Wonderful stuff!
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C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) is a hyperbolic Oort cloud comet and it is unknown if it will survive perihelion passage on 19 April 2026 when it passes 0.499 AU (75 million km) from the Sun. Around perihelion may reach a naked eye visibility of around apparent magnitude +3.

Comet! C/2025 R3 (panSTARRS) Maybe my last clear morning for a while. Had to be creative to find a small window of visibility with trees and my house in the way but 10 mins x 15 secs exposures & there it is, cropped/processed.
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Pale yellow 77% lit Moon above some trees on the morning of 7 April 2026. Some birds are flying through the scene.

The 77% lit #Moon low in the south this morning. The Moon seems to have seen in the news a lot recently. Not sure why... 😄 #Astronomy #Astrophotography

C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) is a comet that is expected to reach perihelion (its closest point to the Sun) on 19 April 2026. It was discovered on 8 September 2025 by the Pan-STARRS survey in Hawaii. The comet is currently brightening and is expected to become visible to the naked eye later this month, potentially reaching an apparent magnitude of around +3 (or even brighter in some scenarios).

Comet!
Officially named C/2025 R3 (Pan STARRS). Currently passing through our solar system. The comet head & tail is very clear.

This image is from 15 minutes of exposures captured low in the east before sunrise this morning.
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

M 100 - Blowdryer Galaxy Messier 100 (also known as NGC 4321) is a grand design intermediate spiral galaxy in the southern part of the mildly northern Coma Berenices. It is one of the brightest and largest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster and is approximately 55 million light-years from our galaxy, its diameter being 107,000 light years, and being about 60% as large. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781 and 29 days later seen again and entered by Charles Messier in his catalogue "of nebulae and star clusters".. It was one of the first spiral galaxies to be discovered, and was listed as one of fourteen spiral nebulae by Lord William Parsons of Rosse in 1850.

M100 imaged last night from my back garden. #SeestarS30 #Astronomy

Orion is the constellation on the right hand side of the image. Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, is the bright star in the bottom left of the image.

Orion looking magnificent in the south-west this evening. 🔭

Jupiter shining brightly in the middle of the constellation of Gemini yesterday evening. Take a look to the south-west in the evening sky and you should be able to see it for yourselves. 🔭

Image from the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory satellite (SOHO) from 2 April 2026. The image shows comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) in the lower left, approaching the Sun. ESA / NASA.

Will comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) survive its close encounter with the Sun? It is seen lower left in this latest SOHO LASCO C3 image. I'm guessing that it won't because it is so small and gets very close to the Sun. Anything's possible though so we can just watch and see what happens. #Astronomy #Space

Full Moon in a black sky.

#Full #Moon

Date (UK): 2026 04 02, Date (US): 2026 04 01
Time (UTC): 01:23:47, Time (EDT): 21:23:47
Artemis II Mission Elapsed Time: 02:48:35
Altitude: 27° 34'
Distance: 390 482 km
Phase: 100%

Nikon Z8
Skywatcher 200P

Exposure: f/5.9, 1/400s, ISO-100
Focal Length: 1200 mm

#astronomy #Artemis

The full moon rising over the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The Orange-yellow moon is left of centre with part of it's lower limb obscured behind the top spans of the bridge. At top left you can see the Aboriginal and Australian flags and at centre-right the small figures of some bridge climbers.

Tonight's full moon rising behind the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
I dragged my telescope down to Birchgrove earlier to capture the moonrise of the so-called "pink" moon.
Skywatcher Esprit 80, 2x Powermate extender, Pentax K-5 DSLR. Single exposure 1/180th sec at ISO 1100. 🔭 #astrophotography #artemis

The yellow Sun with spots on a dark background.

The Sun and sunspots. 1114UT 2 April 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 ☀️ #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

It was pretty indescribable to actually watch a rocket carrying humans launch to the Moon in person. It’s not hyperbole for me to say that for my entire life I have hoped that I would actually see this happen. #PlanetSci #Artemis2

Currently onboard #WCRDarkTrain Px 10 by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving "Phase Memory" by Wahn. Fantastic stuff! 🌃🚂🎼🎵🎹😎
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30 degrees high. Rising in the South eastern sky.

This afternoon's Moon. 80% waxing gibbous looks pretty cool in the blue sky!
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Tonight's 61.5% waxing gibbous Moon. Looked fabulous just now before the curtains of clouds were shut!
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Currently departing UFO Central on board #WCRDarkTrain Px9 by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving "News" by Humanoids. Fantastic stuff! 🌃🚂🎼🎵🎹😎
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7 Sunspot groups, 2 of which may br capable of delivering M class solar flares.

58.5% waxing gibbous Moon in a clear blue sky

Thursday lunchtime's Sun and Moon! 150 million less 375 thousand kilometres apart!
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Had a great time talking about the 'sounds' of space at the amazing @bas.ac.uk Open Day on Saturday as part of Cambridge Festival. Here I am explaining our @soundsofspacep.bsky.social music video, created by @dianascarborough.bsky.social, for our third album Sunconscious.☀️🚀🛰️🎼🎵🎹😎

The Rosette Nebula is an H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter.

Finally got around to processing my #RosetteNebula data from last week. 8 hours taken with my zwo #asi533mcPro with the excellent svbony #sv220 3nm Ha/Oiii filter #Astrophotography

18.2% waxing crescent Moon

Sunday night's Moon. Cloudy but they're thin enough! 🌙
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42 or M42) is one of the brightest and most studied nebulae in the night sky, located approximately 1,344 to 1,500 light-years away from Earth. It is a massive "stellar nursery"—a cloud of gas and dust where new stars and planetary systems are actively being born.

....and The Great Orion Nebula. Just 4 minutes to shoot this!
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Thank you very much, Nigel! Hiroshi Ebina's album is beautiful.
Thank you for the excellent @soundsofspacep.bsky.social session too! I'm so thrilled to have been able to broadcast it.
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Last night's crescent moon from The New Forest.

M51 is approximately the diameter of 76,000 to 77,000 light-years, making it about 88% the size of the Milky Way. Estimated at 160 billion solar masses, roughly 10.3% of our own galaxy's mass and contains roughly 100 billion stars.

The Whirlpool Galaxy (also known as Messier 51a, M51a, or NGC 5194) is a classic grand-design spiral galaxy located approximately 23 to 31 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is famous for its distinct, face-on spiral structure and its ongoing gravitational interaction with the nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 5195.

The Whirlpool Galaxy! 8.5 hours of data collected last night in 2 sessions and 'mega' stacked, processed with and without unrelated stars.

There are actually 2 galaxies and gravity is pulling them together. Watch this space!
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