Category Archives: Picture of the Week

Never seen this before in 21 years of imaging! Right across the middle you can see a tumbling piece of space junk – North is to the right. This is in the Meissa nebulosity (North of Orion) which is why … Continue reading →

Picture of the Week this week features a Canon 5D MkII DSLR shot of Jupiter, Venus and Mercury taken over the New Forest.

This week’s Picture of the Week features bright star Denebola – the head of the Lion – taken with the Hyperstar 4 and the 2600MC Pro CMOS camera.

Picture of the week for the beginning of August 2025 shows the 12 brightest stars that I can image from my south of England location.

This week we feature the only bit of blue in a sea of red which is the reflection nebula NGC6914 in Cygnus. This is a composite image including Sky90 + tiny little H9C data which only imaged the NGC6914 region … Continue reading →

This week features just about all the data I have on the Cygnus Wall region of the North America nebula. This includes Sky90 and Hyperstar III/IV data and must be well over 24 hours of total exposure time, possibly well … Continue reading →

This week is a cropped 2-frame mosaic of the Sadr and Butterfly nebula region across to the Crescent nebula region in Cygnus. This will be around 8-hours exposure time per frame using the 200mm lenses and the 2100MC Pro CMOS … Continue reading →

I had taken many hours of M13 data using just about every piece of kit I have (except the 200mm lenses) – but I had never checked it to see if I could find the “propeller”. So I checked my … Continue reading →

I take a break from astrophotography this week to show instead a pinhole photograph of 6-months of solar travel across my southern horizon. This exposure is from Winter Solstice 2021 until SUmmer Solstice 2022.

This week we feature a 200mm lens/M26C OSC CCD 2-frame mosaic of the IC2087 region in the massive Taurus Molecular Cloud region. A total of in excess of 15 hours of exposure time went into this one, and as you … Continue reading →