These are all astrophotos taken from my back garden in the East Midlands in the UK. I took my first crude astrophotos in July 2018 on very basic kit which has been gradually upgraded alongside my expanding skill set.
Pickering’s Triangle (4 September 2023)
Heart Nebula IC 1805 (21 May 2023, 20 August 2023)
Bode’s Galaxy M81 and Cigar Galaxy M82
Tadpoles IC 410 (4 November 2021)
Eagle Nebula M16 (19 August 2022)
Andromeda Galaxy M31 processed in Hera Version 0.3 (19 August 2022)
Pinwheel Galaxy M101 (24 March 2022)
Croc’s Eye Galaxy M94 (22 March 2022)
Jellyfish Nebula IC 443 (5 January 2022)
Dark Shark Nebula LDN 1235 (1 and 10 December 2021)
Tadpoles IC 410 (4 November 2021)
Bubble Nebula NGC 7635 and Salt-and-Pepper Cluster M52 (7 September 2021)
Dumbbell Nebula M27 (14 July 2021)
Cocoon Nebula IC 5146 (31 May 2021)
Crescent Nebula NGC 6888 (22 May 2021)
Iris Nebula NGC 7023 (21 April 2021 and 22 April 2020)
Daytime waxing gibbous moon (21 April 2021)
M106 Galaxy in Canes Venatici (14 April 2021)
M63 Sunflower Galaxy (3 April 2021)
M95 and M96 Galaxies in Leo (29 March 2021)
Rosette Nebula NGC 2237 (25, 26, 27 February 2021)
Horsehead Nebula Barnard 33 (25 February 2021)
Heart Nebula IC 1805 (18 September 2020, Reprocessed 9 February 2021)
Heart Nebula IC 1805 in False Colour (18 September 2020, Reprocessed 9 February 2021)
Elephant’s Trunk Nebula IC 1396 (13 May 2020, Reprocessed 18 January 2021)
Christmas Tree Cluster NGC 2264 (25 November 2020)
Pleiades M45 (22 November 2020)
Double Cluster NGC 884 and NGC 869 (4 November 2020)
Fish Head Nebula IC 1795 (13 September 2020)
Fish Head Nebula IC1795 in False Colour (13 September 2020)
Mars (18 September 2020 22:53:47 UTC)
Saturn (20 July 2020 22:22:00 UTC)
Jupiter (20 July 2020 22:09:06 UTC)
Eastern Veil Nebula NGC 6992
C/2020 F3 NEOWISE (16 July 2020)
C/2020 F3 NEOWISE (16 July 2020)
Coddington’s Nebula IC 2574 (24 April and 6 May 2020)
Waxing gibbous moon (2 May 2020)
Clavius lunar crater (2 May 2020)
Copernicus lunar crater (2 May 2020)
Venus on 19 April, 2 May and 19 May 2020
Iris Nebula NGC 7023 (22 April 2020)
Venus (19 April 2020)
Whirlpool Galaxy M51 (15 April 2020)
Whirlpool Galaxy M51 (15 April 2020)
Bode’s Galaxy M81 and Cigar Galaxy M82 (4 April 2020)
Bode’s Galaxy M81 (4 April 2020)
Cigar Galaxy M82 (4 April 2020)
Comet C/2019 Y4 ATLAS (26 March 2020)
Leo Triplet M65 (25 March 2020)
Markarian’s Chain of Galaxies (22 March 2020)
All-Sky Winter View (30 December 2019)
Pac-Man Nebula NGC 281 in false colour (20 January 2020)
Pac-Man Nebula NGC 281 (20 January 2020)
Orion Nebula M42 (29 November 2019)
Embryo Nebula NGC 1333 (29 November 2019)
Christmas Tree Cluster NGC 2264 (30 November 2019)
Double Cluster NGC 884 and NGC 869 in the constellation Perseus (18 November 2019)
Dark Seahorse Nebula B 150 (27 October 2019)
Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula IC 1805 (24 October 2019)
IC 342 galaxy (16 October 2019)
IC 10 galaxy (19 September 2019)
Wizard Nebula NGC 7380 (17 September 2019)
Waning gibbous harvest moon (17 September 2019)
Bode’s Galaxy M81 (8 September 2019)
Witch’s Broom Nebula NGC 6960 (7 September 2019)
Bubble Nebula NGC 7635 (1 September 2019)
NGC 7129 and NGC 7142 in the constellation Cepheus (31 August 2019)
Eagle Nebula M16 (22 July 2019)
Pinwheel Galaxy M101 (5 July 2019)
Cocoon Nebula IC 5146 (28 June 2019)
Tulip Nebula Sh2-101 (6 June 2019)
Needle Galaxy NGC 4565 (23 May 2019)
Plato lunar crater (14 May 2019)
Copernicus lunar crater (14 May 2019)
Mare Imbrium on the moon (14 May 2019)
Cigar Galaxy M82 (29 March 2019)
Whirlpool Galaxy M51 (28 March 2019)
Comet 46/P Wirtanen (12 December 2018)
A little about me
I am an amateur astronomer based in the East Midlands in the UK. I am also by profession an aerospace engineer and a senior university lecturer in solid mechanics. I find astronomy to be the most rewarding hobby: It is simultaneously science, maths, art and theology. This blog is for all my astro projects, which span astrophotography, general astronomy and software development; related topics such as my techniques and my equipment; as well as slightly tangential topics in spacecraft engineering.
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