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NGC8918 viewsAn edge on spiral galaxy similar in size to the Milky Way but 30 million LY distant in Andromeda constellation. Five & half hours with a UHC clip filter fitted. The 8" reflector is on a pier mounted EQ6 Pro.
Bill CDec 08, 2018
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Globular Cluster M1512 viewsOne of the brightest globular clusters in the northern sky and home to around 100,000 stars. It is one of the most densely packed globulars in the Milky Way galaxy and is classed as 'core collapsed'. Whether it has a black hole at its centre is subject to much speculation but even images taken with the Hubble were unable to resolve its dense core and solve the problem. David R.Dec 06, 2018
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Planetary Nebula NGC 709417 viewsSome planetary nebular shapes are so "messy" - as is the case with NGC 7094 - that perhaps triple or even multiple stars systems must be involved. In a recent paper, Bear & Soker, placed NGC 7094 in the category "Maybe shaped by a triple stellar progenitor". It is certainly an odd one. David R.Nov 28, 2018
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Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy26 viewsThis dwarf galaxy is part of the local group and is a distant satellite of M31. Recently Hubble images have confirmed the presence of a substantial globular cluster (DDO216-A1) near the centre of the galaxy. It is 3mly away whereas the tiny edge-on galaxy is way in the background at around 900mly. David R.Nov 20, 2018
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IC 1396 Elephants trunk nebula38 viewsPart of an emission nebula in Cepheus. Taken on a pier mounted EQ6 Pro mount and guided with a Gerald Bramall made off axis guider. Essential for the long exposures.
Bill CNov 16, 2018
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Escaping the Void32 viewsAlfaZoa is the galaxy that my talk finished with on Tuesday. It is one of only 2 attested galaxies within the Local Void and it is escaping fast. It was discovered with the Arecibo Radio Telescope. David R.Nov 08, 2018
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IC1396-Elephants Trunk Nebula52 viewsThis is the red channel Using a Ha 6nm filter. eight & half hours giving me all the info I need before combining it with 4 hours UHC filter on 28th & 29th to get the star colours. (note the triple star on the left.) Bill COct 31, 2018
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NGC 700055 viewsNorth American Nebula reprocessed from October 2012Oct 24, 2018
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NGC 45741 viewsFirst attempt as using my modified Canon 600D, Stacked with DSS, Processed with GIMP. Seem to have a very large number of hot pixels following the Astro Modification Oct 23, 2018
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Messier 2960 viewsSomewhat ignored Messier object which does look a bit like a small Pleiades. All is not what it seems though with 2 of the seven brightest stars not being cluster members. The blue one is a background giant and the "handle" star (top left) is a foreground object. Age 5 million years. David R.Oct 14, 2018
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Blazar - BL Lacertae67 viewsIt took many years for astronomers to work out what this object was - it has a featureless spectrum. We now know it is a Blazar - a quasar where the jet from its central black hole is pointing straight at us. Its distance is around 900 million light years. David R.Oct 03, 2018
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81 viewsSun Taken at Kelling heath.Sep 18, 2018
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Lifting the Veil70 viewsKelling Heath 2018. Just managed to get 45 60s between the clouds. Ross Wilkinson did his magic on the Tiff to produce this image.Sep 14, 2018
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Saturn & Mars - 31 August 201887 viewsCivilised time for imaging but boy are they low. Mars is large this year being close to the Sun and they are both are at the same scale here - I didn't even re-focus. South polar cap is visible on Mars and despite the dust storms some surface markings are visible too. There also seems to be a haze over its north pole. David R.Sep 01, 2018
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Crescent Nebula96 viewsImaged in Gloucestershire om 11th-8-18, ISO 400 processed in IRIS and Photoshop.Aug 20, 2018
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Veil Nebula83 viewsImaged in Gloucestershire 5-8-18, ISO 400, processed in IRIS and PhotoshopAug 20, 2018
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Gamma Cygnus82 viewsIMAGE TAKEN ON 17-8-2018, iSO 400, 10 MIN Subs in GloucestershireAug 20, 2018
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Noctilucent clouds over Longridge117 viewsJul 08, 2018
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Noctilucent clouds & passing car102 viewsJul 08, 2018
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Iridescent Cloud125 viewsTaken with Mobile Phone 6.45pm 1st JulyJul 02, 2018
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Full Moon144 viewsSingle shot taken at dusk, 6" reflecting scope and a Samsung A5 mobile phone.Jun 10, 2018
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Jupiter 7th June 2018192 viewsAnother warm evening so another image of Jupiter - this time I was just in time to catch the red spot. Note title should read 7th June not May - sorry. David RJun 08, 2018
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Jupiter 6th June 2018122 viewsTime to dust off the old Celestron C8 SCT and try to image Jupiter. Never going to be wonderful at only 20 degrees elevation - but a nice way to spend a warm evening. David R.Jun 07, 2018
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M13134 viewsMay 20, 2018
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303 viewsFeb 27, 2018
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M33 Triangulum galaxy337 viewsM33 is 3rd largest galaxy in the local group and is nearly 3 million light years distant. I realised I'd imaged it in Oct 15 and Nov 16 giving over nine hours exposure in total. Here's the result of the two combined. Processed in iris and Photoshop. BillCFeb 11, 2018
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M45335 viewsFeb 06, 2018
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Super Blue Moon325 viewsImaged in Gloucestershire, processed in IRIS and enhanced in Photoshop
Feb 06, 2018
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Crab nebula358 viewsTaken on a pier mounted EQ 6 Pro mount. 19 x 10 minute subs using a UHC clip filter. The 1100 D camera is off axis guided. Bill CJan 17, 2018
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NGC 1499 Calafornia nebula458 viewsThe scope is on a pier mounted EQ6 Pro mount PHD guided using a Gerald Bramsll made off axis guider. Bill C Dec 18, 2017
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Big Dipper461 viewsImage was taken while down at Kelling Heath.Nov 24, 2017
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Uranus and three moons351 viewsStellarium screenshot on the left, my image on the right.Nov 19, 2017
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Western Veil Nebula401 viewsNGC 6960Nov 19, 2017
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Bode's Nebulae331 viewsM81 and M82 from BlackrodNov 19, 2017
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Copeland's Septet428 viewsDiscovered by Copeland in 1874 using the 6 foot "Leviathan of Parsonstown" telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland. It was a fortuitous discovery as he was actually looking for another "nebula" but had been given the wrong coordinates. He could see 7 nebulae (galaxies) hence septet but there are at least 8 probably 9 associated together. Distance around 430 mly. David R.Oct 24, 2017
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M17391 viewsVery low down near horizon.
Sep 01, 2017
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Comet Johnson375 viewsCaptured by K Johnson. Processed in Iris by Ross WilkinsonJul 26, 2017
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M16384 viewsJul 26, 2017
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Hickson 55 (VV172)370 viewsIn this famous chain of galaxies the faintest member, second from the top (north) has a much greater redshift than the rest of the group. Why do groups often seem to have an anomalous member? A solution proposed in 1995 was that the mass of the real group acts as a gravitational lens to magnify and brighten any background galaxy in the same line of sight. This would produce more apparent discordant redshift members than pure chance would provide. David R.
Jul 23, 2017
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Noctilucent Clouds at Midnight 378 viewsI took this single image, balancing my FZ72 Lumix camera on a plantpot, in my PJs! 9 sec exposure (auto) on Aperture setting. Jul 02, 2017
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The Owl and the Hickson389 viewsThe Owl Nebula has some faint companions - a galaxy just north of it, a small nebula just below it but faintest of all is Hickson Galaxy Group 50 to its left (east). This ring of 5 galaxies is the faintest of the Hickson groups and has the highest redshifts. Their light took 1.75 billion years to get to Lancashire. David RJun 18, 2017
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Supernova493 viewsDavid R alerted me to the supernova in NGC 6946 which I'd imaged on 25 April. Imaged again last night and Hurriedly processed. No sign of the star in question. Bill CMay 25, 2017
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A Spiral Nebula394 viewsA very odd emission nebula and possibly one of the most distant from the centre of the galaxy. The spiral shape is believed to result from the intense stellar wind from a Be supergiant star - the only known example of such a nebula in the galaxy. David RMay 24, 2017
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M13488 viewsImaged on 1st & 3rd May 2017. 26 x 10 minute subs using a UHC filter. Processed in IRIS & Photoshop. Bill C
David R spotted the propeller. Can you?May 17, 2017
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Jupiter, Io & shadow of Europa418 viewsFar too windy last night as it was shaking the scope but at least it kept the dew off. David RMay 05, 2017
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The Moon at dusk433 viewsTaken with a 'new' old 6" Reflector scope.( I dragged it outside to see if it actually worked) and got this with my phone camera!May 03, 2017
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Sharpless Sh2-235394 viewsClose up view of Sharpless Sh2-235 taken with the 12 inch and obviously has much more detail than is evident in the widefield view in my previous image. Also obvious is that this group (Sh2-231, 232, 233 & 235) is really all part of one giant nebula. The Spitzer space telescope has found 86 young stellar objects within Sh2-235. David R.
May 01, 2017
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Flaming Star Nebular512 viewsTaken HA 6-2-2015 and RGB 20-1-2017 M38 top left and M36 to the left.GBApr 26, 2017
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Sharpless Sh2-231, 232, 233 & 235381 viewsThe Sharpless numbering system went a little awry here and the nebula are from left to right: Sh2-232, -235, -231 and -233 (the smallest). Sh2-235 is the brightest and has below it another tiny nebula previously classed as a planetary. This is actually an emission nebula and is now sometimes classified at Sh2-235A. David R.Apr 16, 2017
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Comet 41P T-G-K420 viewsNot the most spectacular of comets and I guess any tail must be directly behind it out of sight. Still it made a change from my usual obscure targets. David R.Apr 02, 2017
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