Given I had my new UV/IR Cut filter in the scope and another moonless night in what was becoming an week of clear skies, I decided to...

Another one of the 4 nights clear run we had during the 3rd week of January 2023. I had the Witches Head Nebula on my bucket list for a...

I'm just catching up with the blog after a 4 clear night run where I was out every night. Actually my earlier posts of the Monkey Head...

Imaging the Money Head nebula from a back garden in the UK

The weather in my part of the UK, in fact I think this was the case across the whole country, finally cleared, 2 weeks of almost constant...

NGC1499 California Nebula imaged from a back garden in the UK .

OR Why visual review of Flats is Important! As part of the calibration of your light frames I hope everyone appreciates that Flats are...

Elephant Trunk nebular imaged early December from the UK

As December progresses the fabulous constellation of Orion and Monoceros become more accessible to my location in the UK. My southerly...

My new ZWO ASI 533 MC Pro camera arrived at the beginning of December. As I've previous mentioned its my first real astro camera and...

Adding more data to previous sessions is something that becomes a regular occurrence, why start from scratch for each target? The key is...

A walkthrough of my selection of the dedicated Astro camera to replace my Canon DSLR.

Sadr and nebula image taken from my back-garden in the UK

A little early in the season at my latitude but could not resist this classic combination of the Flaming Star Nebula and the Tadpoles Nebula

Such was the success of my previous post where I reprocessed the California Nebula I decided to try a reprocess my Orion Nebula data. In...

The week started here with a grim weather forecast, rain, cloud and winds taking us from October to November. Not exactly a surprise...

I had an interesting problem to solve before I could capturing the Bubble and Lobster. Problem Statement How do I setup a nights session...

The Bubble nebula (NGC 7635) and the Lobster Claw nebula, is based on a nights worth of data taken at the end of Sept 2022 and the...

Additional images added to Lion from September

A short imaging session on the Supernova Remanent in Cygnus