Section of the beautiful Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), April 18th 2026 #astrophotography

ω Centauri, the largest known globular cluster in the Milky Way. It contains roughly 10,000,000 stars, is 17,000 light years away and measures 150 light years across. April 18th 2026 #astrophotography

A beautiful part of the sky in Carina, NGC 3581-2 is a nebula 9,000 light years away. April 18th 2026 #astrophotography

925. Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge. Deluxe edition with 2010 remix, 1974 original mix, original demo and 5.1 mix. A beautiful piece of music, and here there are many ways to enjoy it. #CDsAtoZ 💿

924. Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique. London Symphony Orchestra conducted by André Previn. A truly fantastic piece of music, which has the premise of an artist’s drug adventure. Hence the movement about him marching to the gallows. #CDsAtoZ 💿

Orange man is having a crack at the Pope now. 🍊 Needless to say, it’s time for . . .

Fantastic! Here’s a snippet of my Frank collection. My favourites are Lumpy Gravy, Waka/Jawaka, Läther, the YCDTOSA series and One Size Fits All. And pretty much everything he ever did.

Is he dead yet? Seriously.

Planets are bloody hard to photograph. They are dim compared with stars and the atmosphere here on Earth affects the quality of the light coming through. Anyway, here's Jupiter and it turned out OK. March 30th 2026 #astrophotography

Waxing gibbous Moon, a couple of days before full, March 30th 2026. All going well, four astronauts will be heading to the Moon this week on @nasaartemis #astrophotography

Fantastic!!

Aussie here in solidarity with our pro-democracy friends in the USA 🇺🇸 today! We are watching and we are with you 🇦🇺 #NoKings

Fantastic!! It’s been mine too. Essential!

Astrophotography and me Gathering the ancient light

#astrophotography How I came to do it, how I do it, and a little bit about why I do it. 🔭

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Movies You Should Watch Because I Said So Number 7: Project Hail Mary (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, 2026)

My “review” of Project Hail Mary but shhhh, some spoilers. A beautiful movie with something for everyone, and maybe everything for
someone.
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The Running Woman Nebula (Sh2-279), a reflection nebula 1,500 light years away in Orion. Beautiful blue glow stretching light years across. #astrophotography

The Spiral Planetary Nebula (NGC 5189) in the constellation Musca. A planetary nebula whose central star may have a small stellar companion, hence the s-shape. Lovely amongst the stars of the Milky Way. 3,000 light years away. March 22nd 2026 #astrophotography

923. XTC: The Big Express. Surround Sound Series with BluRay, remixed by Steven Wilson. Fantastic remix of XTC’s heaviest and loudest album. Lots of bonus tracks. #CDsAtoZ 💿

#CDsAtoZ 💿 #Styx

The Antennae Galaxies, NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, in Corvus. Two colliding galaxies, 70,000,000 light years away. Looking like an amoeba, an embryo, a flower, but covering a space of some 250,000 light years. I know, right. March 11th 2026 #astrophotography

Absolutely!!! And hardcore.

922. Carl Orff: Die Kluge & Der Mond. Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchestra conducted by Herbert Kegel. Two one-act operettas with sprech (spoken word) in German. Very weird and very delightful, and very much in the elemental style that Orff brought to ‘Carmina Burana’. #CDsAtoZ 💿

921. The Police: Synchronicity. 2CD reissue with bonus tracks. There is not a poor song on this album; even “Mother” is magnificent. This is timeless and it could have been released yesterday. What a band. #CDsAtoZ 💿

NGC 2525, a barred spiral galaxy 70,000,000 light years away in Puppis. Difficult to see, as we are looking at it through the obscuring stars and dust of our own galaxy. But beautiful. March 10th 2026 #astrophotography

Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), 8,500 light years away. Thousands of stars in one of the richest areas of the Milky Way. March 10th 2026 #astrophotography

Waning gibbous Moon, March 11th 2026 at 1.30am. Early morning Moons are especially beautiful, with the dark lunar seas being prominent. The bright crater near the centre is Copernicus, 93 kilometres across and 3.8 kilometres deep. #astrophotography

State Library Victoria 📚 #booksky

Monochrome of Alnitak, one of the stars in Orion's Belt, with the Flame Nebula at right. March 5th 2026 #astrophotography