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AR2192 in H alpha 2014 October 28
This could be subtitled ‘goodbye to AR 2192′, as the great spot approaches the limb.
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Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) with M79 2014 December 28
I’d been trying to get this comet for some nights, desperately cutting down vegetation in my neighbour’s garden (with permission) to get low enough. I managed to capture it on the 28th, the same night...
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The total lunar eclipse of 2015 September 28
It was a beautifully clear night here in Edgware, and the entire eclipse was visible, the first time this has happened since 4 March 2007. The eclipse was an extremely dark one, and it was apparent...
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Conjunction of Venus and Saturn 2016 January 09
A lucky brief break in the clouds allowed this capture of the conjunction of Venus and Saturn this morning. The two were 5 minutes of arc (1/6 Moon breadth) apart, 12 degrees high in the dawn twilight....
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The Moon 2016 January 19
Here’s a hazy and low gibbous Moon from very early in the morning. Thanks to the magic of processing it comes out quite nice. This is just exactly the largest phase that can be fitted in in one go on a...
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Jupiter 2016 January 01
This was my first image of 2016 and first of Jupiter this apparition. I had good seeing on the morning of the 1st, but transparency was rapidly falling when I took this, and there was a halo around the...
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Astrofaketography
I got this title from my friend Eric Emms (one of the organisers of the excellent Baker Street Irregular Astronomers), and when he came up with it on Twitter, I thought he has being rather rude about...
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NGC 2244 2016 January 15-16
The forthcoming BAA Deep Sky Section meeting prompted me to process one of my sets of deep sky data which has been hanging around. This is a wide-field Rosette, taken with a modified DSLR from Outer...
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Mars 2018 June 12
This was the start of my Mars observing campaign for the 2018 apparition. My method for coping with the very low altitude (no more than 17º) is to use the C-14 at native focal length (f/11), so...
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