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 the background looks red. This is a single 10-minute exposure using the 200mm lenses and the ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS colour cameras.
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 itself, plus Sky90/M26C data of 4 hours of 3-minute subs RGB data, plus 4-hours of 6-minute subs H-alpha data, for the bigger frame.
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 over 30 hours. This is a region that I feel benefits from having no stars to distract from the nebula.
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 cameras with both UV/IR and L-Enhance filters (used separately).
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 deepest M13 image with a PILE of data (MANY hours) – and there it was. So this week we feature the propeller in M13 🙂
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 can see from the image, it could do with even more.
