M51 from a few nights ago. The background is frustrating me - i think my primary fogged up!

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This peculiar galaxy has a bent arm probably due to an interaction with another galaxy.

NGC2146, the Dusty Hand, a peculiar barred spiral. More info on flic.kr/p/2rHxGV7

The Fetus Nebula, a blue planetary nebula that looks like a grub or fetus

Another small planetary nebula, this time NGC7008 the Fetus.
Details on flic.kr/p/2rHDwcd

RCW89 is a probable supernova remnant in the southern constellation Circinus. The left image is Ha, the right is RGB, Ha and Oiii
Details here flic.kr/p/2rHtVeW

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And finally for today, M81, Bodes Galaxy. This will be it for a while as we're due solid rain for a week!
About 3 hours data taken with my usual kit. Somewhat messy background due to thin high cloud

Another planetary, the Medusa Nebula aka sh2-274. Only the 'head' is visible in this image, not enough data!
As always, tech info over on flic.kr/p/2rGGHW9

And with 3i in the news constantly, i couldn't resist making a video of this interstellar object as it passes by. This is about 90 minutes compressed into a few seconds!

Another planetary, this time NGC1514. Again more technical info on my flickr account. flic.kr/p/2rGviet

I've had a few goes at this now - PK164+311, the Headphones planetary nebula. There's more info over on my Flickr account flic.kr/p/2rHdh83

NGC3227 and 3226 are an interacting pair of spiral and elliptical in Leo. 3227 has an active nucleus and the group are about 77 Mly away.
More technical info on Flickr

ARP 286 is a small group of peculiar galaxies, NGC5560, 5566 and 5569 about 50-60 Mly away in Virgo. They're gravitationally interacting and in particular the two spirals appear distorted.

More info on my Flickr account

C23 aka NGC891 2025_09_22 C23 aka NGC891 is an edge-on spiral galaxy in Andromeda. Its about 30 Mly away. I quite like this one because its pretty much what our own galaxy would look like edge-on. 81 mins data taken with the ...

C23 aka NGC891 is an edge-on spiral galaxy in Andromeda. Its about 30 Mly away. I quite like this one because its pretty much what our own galaxy would look like edge-on.
tech details on Flickr flic.kr/p/2ryiWTW

And part 2

Golly its been a while since i posted. anyway, here's a bunch of Galaxies and one Glob. Mostly taken with my own kit, except NGC1365 which is some iTelescope data.
more in part 2

Kid-at-xmas levels of excitement (did I wake up at 5am - yes I did!) #RubinFirstLook

The Virgo cluster is an inspired choice: three-cheers for Sinclair Smith and his 1936 observations of it which helped Zwicky conclude there must be invisible #darkmatter out there! 🤓 🔭🧪

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Its astounding isn't it. They'd rather blame the messenger than admit they made a mistake. Why exactly do they think wildfires are getting more common?

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M42, the Orion nebula.
I barely processed this at all - i stretched the stack a little but otherwise its pretty much straight off the camera.
M42 is an emission nebula in Orion, lit up by new, highly luminous stars.

Jupiter 2025-01-02 18:42
Imaged with the RC8, H294C.
Best 10% of 2300 frames (2 mins video)
Stacked in Autostakkert 4, processed in Registax & FastStone.
Three galilean moons visible, plus the red spot.

IC434, the Horsehead. This is 40 minutes of data captured with my RC8 and Altair 294C, stacked in DSS and processed in Pixinsight.

Its interesting to note that IC434 is actually the bright nebula *behind*. The nebula is about 1200 ly away and is an HII region being ionised by Sigma Orionis.

Hello! Its high time i posted here. Prepare for much astrophotography...

View of fireball

another view of the fireball

tail of fireball just visible through cloud

fireball passing to the SW of the camera

A bright fireball was seen this morning at 0147 on 2024-03-02, unfortunately through thick cloud on many cameras. Several visual sightings too - if you saw it please do file a report via our website.
Analysis hopefully incoming!