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Moon and Venus
Had to get up very early today for this one, 6.30am to see the cresent Moon and Venus lying low in the South East with a clear sky and twilight. A beautiful sight.I took this image with my Canon...
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Aurora in Bolton
Image of the Aurora from my back garden last night.Last night was amazing! Following a Solar Storm a few days ago the Earth was bombarded with particles from the Sun to produce the most incredible...
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Jupiter 3rd March
Jupiter on 3rd March 2014 showing the great Red Spot.A beautiful clear evening with Jupiter almost at azimuth. I took a series of avi's on my Philips Toucam Pro II and Skywatcher 80ED Pro. These are...
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Moon Mosaic 7th March
I am very pleased with this mosaic. This was taken with my Skywatcher 130m and Philips Toucam Pro II webcam. When I captured the AVI's the atmosphere seemed very unstable and the image was constantly...
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Jupiter Moon Transit
This is a first for me, imaging a transit or rather, double transit on Jupiter. Last night was perfectly clear, so I set up my Skywatcher 80 ED Pro and Philips Toucan Pro II at about 8.15pm to...
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International Space Station
Tonight I was looking at some older images that I took of the ISS from my back garden back in 2009 when I came across some close up images that I didn't think were good enough at the time. When I saw...
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Mars Compilation
Mars will be closest to us in the next few weeks, but it will be quite low in the sky. Mars is closest to Earth about every two years. A few years ago we had a particularly close encounter with Mars...
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LEGO Curiosity Rover
Time for some LEGO therapy, great for those cloudy nights!I saw the LEGO Curiosity Rover in this month's 'Sky at Night' magazine. It looked good and was only £24.99! I decided to get one direct from...
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Swedish Star Party
This week we have had our Swedish friends Birgitta, Kribban and Malva visiting us. After tea, I took my Skywatcher 130m telescope out into the garden to look at the Moon and Jupiter. sky was perfectly...
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ISS photo sequence
This is a series of frames captured using my Skywatcher 130 and Philips Toucam Pro II webcam on April 15th. I have tried various ways of capturing close up images of the ISS with a video and stills,...
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Very spotty sunspots
The Sun with yellow filter.It looks like we have have finally hit the Sunspot Maximum! These images were taken yesterday April 18th 2014. The poor thing looks like it has the Measles!Some nice images...
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Colin Pillinger
Sad to hear about the death of Colin Pillinger today. A great guy with tons of enthusiasm!He took a big risk with Beagle 2 sending it to Mars, but he had the drive to take risks and explore. Imagine...
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Buzz Aldrin
My friend Tracy sent me this photo of Buzz Aldrin at the airport in Chicago on route to Florida. Tracy and her family where going on holiday to Florida and had to change planes at Chicago. Then Buzz...
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Light Moon Mosaic
Quite a tricky one this...it is 8.00pm in the evening, the Sun is still shining and also the Moon. So I attempted to make a mosaic of the Moon in almost daylight. It is easy to take the images, but it...
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45 years ago Apollo 11 launch.
45 years ago today I was 14 years old at Hayward Bilateral School in Bolton. I sat in the sunshine with my friends on the grass banking at the side of the gym listening to the Apollo 11 launch on a...
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First light with the Canon EOS 1200D
In 2007 I bought myself a Canon EOS 350D and used it until recently to capture astro images. The 350D was a great camera for both astro and normal photos. However, the 350D had it's limitations,...
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ISS Photos 18th October
A couple of lovely images of the International Space Station tonight taken from Starmount at Radcliffe. Tonight I decided to take my camera out to take some photos of the ISS for a change. Used my...
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Sunspots on a limb
Just managed to capture the huge sunspot as it disappears into the limb yesterday. Not seen the sun here for almost a week! I wish that I could have imaged it a few days earlier, it looked...
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Huge Sunspots
The whole of the sun yesterday with different filters. The colours are beautiful and you can clearly see the huge sunspots disappearing into the limb of the sun.
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Philae lands on the comet!
First image from Philae on the surface of the comet! Image of the comet taken from Rosetta.This is one of those "Where were you when...." moments!Yesterday and today I taught three classes about...
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SkyLink and SkyPortal observations
Tonight I did a full set up of my Skywatcher 80ED Pro, Celestron SLT computerised mount, SkyLink and SkyPortal on my Samsung Tab2. This together with my new Canon 1200d and clear sky gave me the...
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Lunar Mosaic
Last night I took my new Skywatcher Heritage 130P telescope out to have a look at the Moon. This was the first time that I have had a chance to do this with cloudy skies.I love this scope, it is the...
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Skywatcher Heritage 130P
My new telescope. Although I already have a Skywatcher 130m complete with EQ2 mount and Skywatcher 80ED Pro I decided to add to my collection.I wanted a 'Grab and Go' type scope that is light and folds...
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