On 25th Feb '26 I photographed the #EyesOfClavius #ClairObscur effect. This animation shows how much the Sun had risen over #Clavius between 18:01 and 19:40UT. #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor, #ZWO #ASI120MC camera, #Televue #Powermate5x. #Oxfordshire, UK
Lunar images I took on 25 Feb '26 when the Moon was 64% #WaxingGibbous. I love this lunar phase because the lighting is great over so many of my favourite regions. #WilliamOptics 70mm #refractor, #ZWO #ASI120MC camera + #Televue #Powermate 5x. #Oxfordshire, UK
A ball of mostly blue stars with a few orange stars scattered in & a small ring like planetary nebula which is the remains of an exploded star.
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Shot in the New forest this Messier 46 star cluster with a planetary nebula.
Sunday was the 5 year anniversary of capturing this #InternationalSpaceStation #LunarTransit. We were in lockdown at the time but our house was below the transit centre-line & the #ISS passed over #Copernicus #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor #ZWO #ASI120MC camera. #Oxfordshire UK
Oval shaped due to incline, this galaxy has tightly wound bluish arms & darker orange dust lanes.
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My backyard shot of spiral galaxy Messier 88, 50-60 million light years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.
Yesterday was the 5 year anniversary of capturing this #InternationalSpaceStation #LunarTransit. We were in lockdown at the time but our house was below the transit centre-line & the #ISS passed over #Copernicus #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor #ZWO #ASI120MC camera. #Oxfordshire UK
Messier 95 a barred spiral galaxy 33 Million Light years away in the constellation of Leo. The core & bars are orange with blue ring like structure & delicate spiral arms.
Messier 96 a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Leo 31 million light years away. The central core is amber with distinctive dust lanes & faint arms extend forming an oval around the centre.
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A couple of Leo galaxies, Messier 95 & 96 shot last night from my Lee on solent backyard with a William Optics FLT110 F7 scope.
Here is my stacked image of the #EyesOfClavius, taken at 18:08 UT 25 February 2026 from #Oxfordshire, UK. #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor, #ZWO #ASI120MC camera, #TeleVue #5xPowermate.
A star filled background, red supernova remnant, pretty blue irregular shaped cluster adjacent a smaller compact orange star cluster.
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The Jellyfish nebula / supernova remnant & open cluster Messier 35 NGC 2158 shot from my soggy backyard.
#Jupiter from #Oxfordshire UK 24 Feb '26. #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor + ASI120MC camera, shot with #Celstron 3x Barlow then a #Televue #Powermate 5x which was pushing it a bit! I merged a different exposure for the Galilean moons
Rich in H-alpha and oxygen emission, this region is a stellar nursery where radiation and stellar winds actively sculpt the surrounding gas. You are seeing a dramatic snapshot of star formation in action.
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The crab nebula Messier 1, supernova remnant in Taurus shot from my backyard.
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My first backyard shot of the year is the star cluster NGC 7380 & nebula SH2-142 know as the Wizard nebula in Cepheus.
image shows the rosette nebula, an HII region that has shells of red gas in circular layers that resemble a rosette around the outside with little nebulosity in the centre. Some people think the shape resembles a human skull. There is a bright star cluster almost in the centre and the whole nebula is surrounded by a black sky and numerous faint stars
#RosetteNebula in Nov '25 from #Oxfordshire, UK. #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor, EQ5 Pro mount/permanent pier, astro-modded #Canon1100D + #AltairQuadband filter. 150 x 2min + 30 darks, total exposure of 5 hours. I was losing the sky to dawn light at the time of imaging #Astrophotography
Fully autonomous Telescope system with a William Optics Red Cat 61
Fully autonomous Telescope system with a William Optics Red Cat 61
Fully autonomous Telescope system with a William Optics Red Cat 61
๐งต(3/3) Here's the rig that took that picture.
A very small telescope (300mm focal length @ ฦ4.9) with excellent optics from William Optics
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Another backyard shot, this time of the bubble nebula in Cassiopeia in SHO.
The Tulip in Hydrogen-alpha: Tulip Nebula Sh2-101 and the surrounding HII region in Cygnus, centered on the open star cluster NGC 6871. 60x300-second subs, 5 hours total integration time. Location: backyard, coastal New Hampshire, US. #astrophotography #astronomy #nightsky #ZWOAM5 #williamoptics
The Space Cat was already set up and ready to go, so that's what I'm imaging with tonight. William Optics SpaceCat51 and the ZWO AM5 EQ in the backyard. I have the ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro Mono camera, 3nm narrowband 48mm filter set on tonight #WilliamOptics #SpaceCat #ZWOAM5 #astrophotography #astronomy
#sun in H-alpha light today. First light with my vintage #IsleOfMan #coronado ASP60 filter and BF30. Made in Europe, unlike later Coronado's. Excellent contrast for a 20+year old filter. Telescope was a #WilliamOptics FLT91. Player One Neptune M camera.
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Animation of #Asteroid #Flora approaching #NGC3628 the #HamburgerGalaxy in the #LeoTriplet 7th, 8th & 9th April 2025. Imaged from #Oxfordshire with a #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor + #Canon1100D Moonlight has been a real pain!
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#TimelapseVideo of the whole of yesterday's #PartialSolarEclipse captured from #Oxfordshire UK with a #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor, #ThousandOaks glass filter & #Canon1100D. I took a photo every 15 seconds for 2hrs. Unprocessed aside from cropping the video
T Coronae Borealis, a binary star about 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis, is expected to go nova any time now. Photo details in comments.
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Not an easy target to say the least. M94 is a very small target in a mid-sized refractor. This was just over two hours of data. Photo details in comments.
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The region around #MontesApenninus including #Eratosthenes & #Archimedes at 16:59UT 6th Feb '25. Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor, #Celestron 3x Barlow & #ASI120MC camera. Best 50% of 1,000 frames #LunarPhotography #LunarCraters #LunarMountains
The #EyesOfClavius #ClairObscurEffect at 16:58UT 6th Feb '25. Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor, #Celestron 3x Barlow & #ASI120MC camera. Best 50% of a 1,000 frame video #LunarPhotography #LunarCraters
#RupesRecta #theStraightWall at 16:55UT 6th Feb '25. Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor, #Celestron 3x Barlow & #ASI120MC camera. Best 50% of a 1,000 frame video #LunarPhotography
The #PtolemaeusTrio at 16:54UT 6th Feb '25. Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor, #Celestron 3x Barlow & #ASI120MC camera. Best 50% of a 1,000 frame video #LunarPhotography #LunarCraters
Getting the telescope out in the clear, dry air of New Mexico tonight. I took this with my Pixel 8 and you can even see the Andromeda Galaxy that I'm shooting in the center of the frame.
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