Hawksmoor

127mm Apo-refractor and QHY video camera. A composite of 4 videos stitched together using ICE. Very new crescent Moon in a blue sky.

127mm Apo Refractor and QHY colour video camera. Composite of two 1 minute clips - one captured using a Dark blue Wratten filter. Very beautiful and mysterious phase.

Two very noisy images with different exposures combined. Canon 600d DSLR with standard 18-55mm EFS handheld over our waterbutt. A real pretty sight last night with a bit of 'scenic' cloud. The Hyades, Pleiades, waxing Moon with earthshine and Venus at half phase.

Central area of Mellotte 111 - Altair Astro 66 mm refractor with 0.6x focal reducer and field flattener on a Star Adventurer equatorial mount. Canon 600d DSLR at f=240mm. 60x60sec lights at ISO1600. This cluster covers such a large area of sky!

Last night was Moon and cloud free so had lots of fun under the stars. The comet was located in Ursa Major not far from the Bears nose. Image taken with my widefield mini-rig. Altair Astro 66mm Doublet with 0.6x focal reducer and field flattener delivering f=240. Canon 600d DSLR mounted on Star Adventurer Equatorial mount. 40x60sec lights at ISO1600. Could see the comet through 80x11 bins using averted vision. The image is a slight crop of the full field captured.

Supernova SN2020ue in NGC 4636. (Credit: Open University, telescope.org COAST Telescope Mount Teide Tenerife.) I do like a Type 1a Supernova in Virgo.

When you live at sea-level and at the UK's most easterly point, evening views of Mercury are hard to come by. I took this handheld snap whilst hanging out the bedroom window. Venus and Mercury together in the early evening is a real pretty sight. Canon 600d DSLR with standard zoom lens -1/15th sec exp at ISO6400.

1 hour ago, Scooot said:

Great image, you did really well hand held.

Thank you very much for your kind comment.

Nice conjunction took this quick handheld snap with my Canon 600D at about f=300mm. Can never really do these beautiful conjunctions justice. Just goes to show what a fabulous bit of kit the eyeball brain combo is!

Orion's Dagger hanging from his belt - Altair Astro 66mm Doublet Refractor - Canon 600d DSLR on a Star Adventurer equatorial mount. (ISO800 - 40x3min lights and 20x 30sec lights stacked and blended) . Very pleased that by using my x 0.6 focal reducer and field flattener I could get the Flame, Horsehead, Running man and Orion Nebulae on my DSLR chip.

The Constellation Orion - Canon 600d DSLR with EF 75-300 zoom lens on a Star Adventurer equatorial mount. (ISO800 - 35 x 3min lights stacked). Orion very much like me - very dusty and full of gas!

Composite image showing two meteors 'captured between the two bears'

04 Jan 2020 Midnight to 3:00am, observed about 24 meteors imaged two. This one whizzing past Polaris was the most spectacular. Tripod mounted Canon 600d DSLR with EFS 18-55mm lens at f=18mm. 15sec lights at ISO1600.

The above image created from the SDO 'Sun Today' (composite 171,211 and 304 angstrom filters) 
Credit for base data "Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams."

I really like this image as it appears to show Mercury within the corona.

This isn't a brilliant image of the transit of Mercury 11-11-2019 but the weather was terrible. This image was taken between clouds just before sunset with a white light filter and my Altair Astro 66mm doublet with 2.5x Barlow and Canon 600d DSLR. The unusual bit being, it was taken by me hand holding this ungainly telescopic lens combo whilst leaning, well past my natural angle of repose and well outside my first floor bedroom window.

Grim weather here on the UK's  east coast. Last night I noticed that upper atmosphere ice crystals had given the full Moon a '22 degree halo' Snapped this with a hand held Canon IXUS 160 compact camera. - Even optical artefacts may be beautiful.

As Jupiter this year, never got high enough for me to point my pier mounted scope at it,  I was delighted to find out that I could 'play' with Juno Cam images. I thought this image really shows the GRS 'unravelling' at the edges. Credit: NASA JUNO.

Comet W2 AFRICANO in the constellation Andromeda - Altair Astro Lightwave 66mm. Doublet Refractor with 0.6x focal reducer and field flattener and Canon 600d DSLR all on a Star Adventurer equatorial mount. Crop of a stack of 15x60sec lights at ISO1600. Not the greatest of images but there was a lot of high level cloud and some moonlight. Pleased to find this without goto on this little scope and mount - nearby bright stars delta and epsilon Andromeda were a great help.

Cloud Dodgin' - Canon 400D DSLR-EFS18-55mm lens at f=18mm. 30secs at ISO1600. Star Adventurer mount. Definitely a Perseid.

Really nice image with lots of detail to admire! Jupiter is too low this year for me to image using my 127mm refractor. So thanks for sharing. The GRS looks quite different from the last time I imaged it!

Regards George

Not many Perseids visible in the early hours of the 13th August 2019.  The RH in our backyard was +80% so the lenses on my cameras kept dewing up. Have ordered some resistors to make a couple of 'dew zappers'. Lots of stars, Pegasus, the Double Cluster and the Andromeda Galaxy all visible.  Canon 600D DSLR, EFS 18-55mm at f=18mm. 20x30sec lights at ISO1600. Camera on homemade dual camera rig on a Star Adventurer mount.

Just after midnight this morning a camera on my 'meteor rig' snapped this Perseid shooting past Cassiopeia. Canon 400d -EFS 18-55mm lens at f=18mm - ISO 1600.  - All on a Star Adventurer mount. 

Star field - 20x30 sec stacked lights layered with frame containing Perseid.

The rain has come back with a vengeance here in Lowestoft - so have spent some time mucking about stacking images captured with my new meteor rig. Canon 600D DSLR EFS 18-55 mm lens. 60x 30 sec lights ISO 1600 - Star Adventurer mount. So many stars!

Trying out my new 'meteor catching rig'. Captured the ISS piercing Lyra and crossing swords with a Capricornid.

What a fantastic image!