The prominent crater Copernicus, showing terraced crater walls and numerous small craters outside the walls.

Plato and Sinus Iridum. Plato is the lava filled crater to the right of the image, and Sinus Iridum (bay of rainbows) is to the left, showing the 'golden handle' effect.

Prominent craters Tycho and Clavius in the Southern Uplands. Clavius has numerous internal craters visible, down to less than 4km in diameter.

Three images of the Moon from a very windy night in Edinburgh with poor seeing. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x powermate, #Touptek 585 mono camera. Best 25% frames from 1000 frame (1500 frame for Copernicus) videos, stacked and sharpened in AstroSurface. #astrophotography

Image of first quarter Moon from 25th March. The Clair Obscura effects of the Lunar X and V are visible on the terminator. The effect is caused by sunlight hitting features like crater walls while leaving leaving the surface in darkness, causing our eyes and brains to recognise an X or V shape.

Finished processing a full disk video of the Moon from last night. Had to use a mask to brighten the terminator while not blowing out the rest of the Moon. #CFF160 🔭 at 1050mm focal length, #Touptek 585M camera. #astrophotography

Waxing crescent Moon with North up. Mare Crisium is in the top right.

Close up of the Moon showing prominent craters Langrenus (upper) and Petavius (lower, with prominent rille at approximately 8 o'clock)

Close up of Mare Crisium showing a couple of filled craters and some wrinkle ridges.

Short period of clear skies in Edinburgh just after sunset allowed me to get 3 pictures of the crescent Moon. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate for the two close ups, and #Touptek 585M camera. Best 25% frames from 1500 frame videos, stacked and sharpened. #astrophotography

Thin crescent Moon, showing Mare Crisis and craters near the terminator

Close up of the crescent Moon showing the prominent craters Langrenus and Petavius. Petavius is identified by the rille running from the central peak to the south west

A couple of Moon images from Edinburgh tonight. #CFF160 🔭 and #Touptek 585 mono camera. The zoomed in image used a #Televue 2.5x powermate as well. #astrophotography

A tulip-shaped nebula is off-center in a dense starfield in the constellation Cygnus. The nebula itself is bright with colors ranging from green to teal and dark dust lines. The surrounding area also glows a faint green as gas emissions cover the area.

☘️ St. Patrick's Day has arrived! ☘️

To celebrate the occasion along with the arrival of spring, here's the Tulip Nebula processed in a very green way instead of natural red.

Prints: buff.ly/NDzxGQa

#space #astrophotography #tulip #spring #nebula #green #skywatcherUSA #touptek 🔭 📷

DEEPSKY SYSTEM OBJECT | ANTLIA VPROL | ALPT
THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY | M31
CONSTELLATION ANDROMEDA

#messier31 #andromeda #galaxy #touptek #antlia #redcat51 #astrophotography #spaceart #artofpix #artofpixastro

My phone has been buzzing about solar flares and these monster sunspots did not disappoint! This image was captured at 1pm on February 4th.

Full res + details: www.astrobin.com/15lhx0/

#astrophotography #sun #sunspots #solarflares #space #touptek #skywatcherUSA

A 74% waxing crescent moon captured with a monochrome camera and sharpened with PixInsight.

I took the rare break in the clouds as an opportunity to get my first moon image in awhile. This image was captured on January 27th with the moon 74% waxing. Lovely, as always!

Details: buff.ly/aaCr54W

#astrophotography #moon #crescent #photography #touptek #skywatcherUSA #space 🔭 📷 🌔

A full disk solar image showing off a combination of lines and spots covering the surface

It has been a busy couple days for Earth's magnetic field as the sun has been pummeling us with material. With all this sunspot activity, it's easy to see why!

Full res + details: buff.ly/lOYXqmZ

#astrophotography #photography #sunspots #aurora #skywatcherUSA #touptek 🔭 📷

This is the region around Alnitak, the easternmost star in Orion's Belt. Featured are the Flame and Horsehead Nebula, which both shine brightly in the dust.

Horsehead and Flame Nebula are a rite of passage for any new camera gear, so I pointed my ToupTek585M at it and snapped away with L, R, G, and B filters.

Prints: buff.ly/k6rAEso
Details: buff.ly/C5bdeLj

#astrophotography #space #nebula #orion #horsehead #touptek #skywatcherUSA #photography 🔭📷

Sulfur II filter

Hydrogen-alpha filter

Oxygen III filter

Here are the stacks by filter that I combined to make this image

#astrophotography #nebula #space #monkey #touptek #skywatcherUSA 🔭 📷

A large colorful nebula with a gold-orange rim, wispy clouds streaming off the outside, and a bright blue center.

Located between the constellations Orion and Gemini, Monkey Head Nebula is a large, colorful nebula is an excellent narrowband target.

Prints: buff.ly/nQZ74Eh
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#astrophotography #nebula #space #monkey #touptek #skywatcherUSA 🔭 📷

An image of Gassendi crater and Mare Humorum. Gassendi has multiple floor fractures and a central peak with several mountains.

An image of Gassendi and Mare Humorum taken on 30th December 2025. Numerous rilles are visible on the crater floor. #CFF160 🔭, #Televue 2.5x powermate, #Touptek 585M camera. Best 25% frames from 2500 frame video, stacked and sharpened in AstroSurface. #astrophotography

A 97% illuminated waxing moon photographed on the evening of Jan 1, 2026

A full disc solar image featuring a few clusters of sunspots at various latitudes in the middle of the surface

My first sun/moon pair of 2026! The moon was 97% illuminated last night and then sun was captured this morning as it peeked up over my house.

Moon: buff.ly/2uiGNHo
Sun: buff.ly/1OSCm4T

#astrophotography #newyear #sun #moon #sunspots #aurora #solarsystem #touptek #skywatcherUSA

Southern uplands of the Moon. The prominent crater Tycho with its bright ray system is in the upper centre of the picture. Clavius is down and slightly right, and the elongated crater Schiller is on the terminator to the left.

Sinus Iridum showing wrinkle ridges.

Copernicus crater with its terraced walls and ejecta pattern. Lots of small craters visible around it.

3 images of the Moon tonight taken with #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #Touptek 585M camera. Best 25%(Southern uplands) or 5% (Sinus Iridum and Copernicus) stacked from 2500/5000 frame video in AstroSurface, and further processed in PixInsight. #astrophotography

A two panel mosaic of the Dark Shark Nebula with jaws open facing the left side of the image. The dark dust needs a ton more exposure time to sharpen the edges and bring out the texture.

This is a two panel mosaic of Dark Shark Nebula with about 2h on R, G, B and 4 h on L per panel. This is still very much underbaked and will need more exposure time, but it's starting to take shape.

#astrophotography #darknebula #shark #photography #space #telescope #touptek #skyWatcherUSA

Waxing crescent Moon, showing craters along the terminator

Waxing crescent Moon from Edinburgh through clouds and low over some houses. #CFF160 🔭 and #Touptek 585M camera. Best 5% frames from 2500. #astrophotography

Sun image from 2025-12-05 showing the massive sunspot band in the middle of the disc.

Sun image from 2025-12-08 showing the massive sunspot band two-thirds of the way toward the right edge of the disc.

Sun image from 2025-12-09 showing the massive sunspot approaching the right edge of the disc.

It's been fun watching this large cluster of sunspots cruise across the sun and change shape over the past several days. It's possible there may be aurora activity tonight, but not for me ☁️

#sun #sunspots #aurora #timelapse #astrophotography #solarsystem #telescope #touptek #skywatcherUSA 🔭 📷

A three-panel mosaic of the Soul Nebula in a SHO palette, with the strong H-alpha signal showing up in green. This was a quick stack and stitch with almost no processing.

Last night I did a quick run of 30 minutes per narrowband filter on each frame of a 3-panel mosaic on Soul Nebula. I stacked it up with basically zero processing and I like how it looks! More integration time incoming!

#astrophotography #mosaic #nebula #soul #wip #touptek #skywatcherUSA

Waning Moon from 6 December. Prominent craters on the limb are (from top to bottom): Langrenus, Vendelinus, Petavius, Furnerius. Petavius has a broad, deep rille that runs from the central mountain group to the inner wall.

Jupiter and Galilean moon Io. The North Equatorial Belt shows small red spots, and blue streaks, while multiple belts are visible in the southern hemisphere. North is up.

A brief clearing in the skies last night allowed me to get quick snaps of the Moon and Jupiter. CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #Touptek 585 mono camera for the Moon and #ZWO ASI585 colour for Jupiter. #astrophotography

A full disk monochrome image of the sun, stacked from 750 frames of video and colorized orange. The main feature is a tight band of sunspots right in the middle just below the equator.

Yesterday's sun! I had seen some images of this massive band of sunspots, so I decided to take some images even though conditions weren't ideal. Hoping for some more aurora magic!

Details: buff.ly/nu2MOO3

#astrophotography #sun #sunspots #photography #solarsystem #touptek #skywatcherUSA 📷 🔭

Spiral galaxy M33 in Triangulum, showing red star forming regions and blueish regions with young hot stars.

Got some Ha to add to a recent image of M33. CFF135 🔭 with #Touptek ATR2600 mono camera and filters. #astrophotography

Pointed at the Andromeda Galaxy last night. The #touptek 585M does a great job and atm is my favourite camera but it needs to be paired with something wider than my 420mm triplet. I think an SQA55 or SV555 will be on my doorstep soon to do this camera justice. #astrophotography #space #andromeda

Eastern Veil Nebula through the much smaller sensor of my ToupTek ATR585M and monochrome filters (13.5h total)

Full res + details: buff.ly/bvFdKZj
Prints: buff.ly/x3VhDAQ

#astrophotography #nebula #nightsky #supernova #stars #space #ToupTek #SkywatcherUSA #art

A full, supermoon captured with a monochrome camera just after midnight on November 5th.

Here's the full supermoon from just after midnight on Nov 5th. Supermoons occur when the full moon coincides with the moon being closest to Earth in its elliptical orbit (perigee).

Full res + details: buff.ly/Vwjs3Ta

#moon #supermoon #fullmoon #astrophotography #touptek #skywatcherUSA 🔭 📷

A 92% waxing moon with the shadows receding off the left side

92% waxing moon from November 2nd. As usual, as the full moon arrives, the weather clears up. Narrowband it is! Tonight's targets are Eastern Veil, Pacman for a bit, and then Monkey Head.

Full res + details: buff.ly/MCd3wOE

#supermoon #moon #monochrome #astrophotography #skywatcherUSA #touptek

Gassendi and Mare Humorum. Gassendi is upper left of the picture with Mare Humorum just below. Mare Nubian is to the right of the picture

Plato to Sinus Iridum. Plato is the large lava filled crater to the upper right, and Sinus Iridium (the bay of rainbows) is a large lava filled crater with missing south east wall to the middle centre of the picture

Two more images from last night's session: Gassendi and Mare Humorum to the left, and Plato to Sinus Iridum to the right. Both best 10% frames from 2500 frame video taken with #CFF 135 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x powermate, #Touptek 585MM camera. #astrophotography

The heavily cratered southern uplands of the Moon. Prominent craters visible are Tycho (upper right), Clavius (large, lower middle), and Schiller (elongated, upper left).

The heavily cratered southern uplands of the Moon, showing Tycho, Clavius, and Schiller. Best 10% frames from 2500 frame video. #CFF135 🔭, #Touptek 585MM, #Televue 2.5x Powermate. Processed in Astrosurface and PixInsight. #astrophotography

Helix Nebula is planetary nebula located roughly 200 light years from Earth. This image was captured using a monochrome camera and narrowband filters.

This awesome planetary nebula is Helix Nebula. It is roughly 200 light years from Earth and is located in the Aquarius constellation in our skies.

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Full res + details: buff.ly/QriQ73z

#astrophotography #nebula #helix #eye #space #telescope #touptek #skywatcherUSA