The relativistic jet in M87 features as this Picture of the Week.
The Double Cluster hanging like a charm off Greg’s Charm Bracelet is this week’s image. This is a 2-frame Sky90 array mosaic using the M26C OSC CCDs.
This week features the stretch of Cygnus running from the Crescent nebula right down to the Tulip nebula. This is a 200mm lens/2600MC Pro CMOS camera image taken using the L-Enhance filters. Russ Croman’s star removal filter has been used to present the nebula sans stars.
This week we feature the Coathanger Cluster using only the 200mm lenses with the ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras. The wide field really puts the cluster into perspective.
This cluster has a very special place in my memory. I first came across it scanning the pristine dark skies of Dartmoor with my 10 X 50 Boots binoculars. I knew nothing about this cluster, and being young with zero astronomical experience/knowledge – I even wondered if I had discovered something new. Such innocent (ignorant?) days – now long gone.
I like contrasting red/blue star pairings. In this instance we show the beautiful Algol and Rho Persei in the constellation Perseus. Image taken using the Sky90 array with M26C OSC CCDs.
Never seen this before in 21 years of imaging! Right across the middle you can see a tumbling piece of space junk – North is to the right. This is in the Meissa nebulosity (North of Orion) which is why the background looks red. This is a single 10-minute exposure using the 200mm lenses and the ASI 2600MC Pro CMOS colour cameras.
Picture of the Week this week features a Canon 5D MkII DSLR shot of Jupiter, Venus and Mercury taken over the New Forest.
This week’s Picture of the Week features bright star Denebola – the head of the Lion – taken with the Hyperstar 4 and the 2600MC Pro CMOS camera.
Picture of the week for the beginning of August 2025 shows the 12 brightest stars that I can image from my south of England location.
This week we feature the only bit of blue in a sea of red which is the reflection nebula NGC6914 in Cygnus. This is a composite image including Sky90 + tiny little H9C data which only imaged the NGC6914 region itself, plus Sky90/M26C data of 4 hours of 3-minute subs RGB data, plus 4-hours of 6-minute subs H-alpha data, for the bigger frame.
