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Messier 297 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 Lacertae19 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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35 viewsSun Taken at Kelling heath.Sep 18, 2018
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Lifting the Veil33 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 201849 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 Nebula50 viewsImaged in Gloucestershire om 11th-8-18, ISO 400 processed in IRIS and Photoshop.Aug 20, 2018
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Veil Nebula46 viewsImaged in Gloucestershire 5-8-18, ISO 400, processed in IRIS and PhotoshopAug 20, 2018
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Gamma Cygnus46 viewsIMAGE TAKEN ON 17-8-2018, iSO 400, 10 MIN Subs in GloucestershireAug 20, 2018
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Noctilucent clouds over Longridge82 viewsJul 08, 2018
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Noctilucent clouds & passing car70 viewsJul 08, 2018
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Iridescent Cloud92 viewsTaken with Mobile Phone 6.45pm 1st JulyJul 02, 2018
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Full Moon114 viewsSingle shot taken at dusk, 6" reflecting scope and a Samsung A5 mobile phone.Jun 10, 2018
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Jupiter 7th June 2018156 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 201894 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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M13109 viewsMay 20, 2018
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278 viewsFeb 27, 2018
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M33 Triangulum galaxy306 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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M45303 viewsFeb 06, 2018
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Super Blue Moon296 viewsImaged in Gloucestershire, processed in IRIS and enhanced in Photoshop
Feb 06, 2018
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Crab nebula326 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 nebula419 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 Dipper429 viewsImage was taken while down at Kelling Heath.Nov 24, 2017
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Uranus and three moons323 viewsStellarium screenshot on the left, my image on the right.Nov 19, 2017
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Western Veil Nebula370 viewsNGC 6960Nov 19, 2017
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Bode's Nebulae305 viewsM81 and M82 from BlackrodNov 19, 2017
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Copeland's Septet394 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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M17364 viewsVery low down near horizon.
Sep 01, 2017
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Comet Johnson348 viewsCaptured by K Johnson. Processed in Iris by Ross WilkinsonJul 26, 2017
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M16357 viewsJul 26, 2017
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Hickson 55 (VV172)339 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 351 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 Hickson365 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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Supernova459 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 Nebula365 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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M13455 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 Europa388 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 dusk400 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 Sh2-235365 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 Nebular478 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 & 235355 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-K383 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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Trifid of the North371 viewsOne of the oddest nebula there is and often (wrongly) classed as an emission nebula. It is actually a reflection nebula. If so why is it red? It's due to the nature of the illuminating source, namely the star LkHa101, which is surrounded by its own h-alpha emission nebula. It is the red light from the latter that illuminates the nebula. David R.Mar 26, 2017
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Baade 1404 viewsVery few images and virtually no data available for this planetary nebula in Taurus. In addition several catalogues have this object's coordinates wrong. Discovered by Walter Baade in the 1930s with the 100 inch telescope. Central star is 17.1 mag.. David R.Mar 05, 2017
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IC1795-Fish Head nebula428 views3 hours exposure off axis guided using a UHC clip filter. Processed in IRIS and Photoshop
Bill CFeb 27, 2017
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NGC 1723 Iris nebula401 viewsImaged in August 2016. 2 Hrs 20 mins using a UHC clip filter. Pier mounted EQ6 Pro mount with the Skywatcher 200 off axis guided. The frame has been cropped to enlarge the nebula. Bill CFeb 24, 2017
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Close Encounter476 viewsThe planetary nebulae Abell 6 and HFG1 are less than 40 arcmins apart but they couldn't be more different - very much "little and large". Due to the rapid motion of HFG1 this chance encounter won't last long - well on galactic time sales that is! David R.Feb 19, 2017
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Huge Friendly Giant HFG1 501 viewsAs planetary nebulae go this one is huge so its name surely stands for Huge Friendly Giant 1. But no - it is named after its discoverers Heckathorn, Fesen & Gull. The central star is V664 Cas which is a pre-cataclysmic binary system with an orbital period of 14 hours. David RFeb 12, 2017
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424 viewsM 42 IMAGED NOVEMBER 2016, TRIED MANY TIMES TO TEASE OUT MORE OF THE FAINT DETAIL, DAVID PROVED IT IS IN THERE, I'LL TRY TO IMPROVE IT LATER (PERHAPS). PROCESSED IN IRIS AND PHOTOSHOP.
Keith MFeb 06, 2017
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ROSETTA NEBULA428 viewsIMAGED AT THE END OF JANUARY 2017, SEEING POOR, RAIN STOPPED PLAY HALF WAY THROUGH THE IMAGING SESSION, PROCESSED IN IRIS AND PHOTOSHOP
Keith m.Feb 06, 2017
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Planetary Nebula Abell 5412 viewsThis Planetary Nebula does exist but there is virtually no data or images of it! I was asked if I had an image by Owen Brazell, writer of Deep-sky Challenge in Astronomy Now magazine, but following my reports that is was mighty faint he decided this was a challenge too hard even for the big Dobsonian boys. David R.Jan 29, 2017
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