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Mars

bathastronomers — 2020-10-11 13:44:47 UTC

Early evening stack of Mars from Odd Down. Southern Polar Cap is just visible. Whitish spot top right is Olympus Mons.

Longer shot of Uranus

bathastronomers — 2020-10-11 13:46:33 UTC

Extending the exposure of Uranus brought out the satellites despite the glare. Used Stellarium to see which was which and which were background stars

Last Quarter Moon

bathastronomers — 2020-10-11 13:49:06 UTC

A single shot of the Moon in the sky as the Sun rose. Used a Canon 6D on a Celestron C11

Close-up of Crater Clavius

bathastronomers — 2020-10-11 13:50:41 UTC

The shallow angle of the sunlight casts long shadows across the crater floor and shows the features on the crater rim

Comet NEOWISE

2020-10-11 14:13:40 UTC

Whitesheet Hill, 11th July 2020

Faint Noctilucent Clouds

2020-10-11 14:19:00 UTC

Odd Down, Bath. 6th June 2020

Crescent Moon

2020-10-11 14:34:11 UTC

Composite made of 4 stacked images of the crescent Moon on 27th March 2020

Mars 11-10-20

pylleman55 — 2020-10-12 15:04:13 UTC

Mars 09-10-2020. Processed with 15% of 5000 images with Autostakkert, Registax and Photoshop. Taken with William Optics ZS126, Televue Powermate x4 and ZWO ASI462MC.

stevelaileysl — 2020-10-15 14:36:50 UTC

8inch newt from scratch (still perfecting) on a Tal_1 mount..

Moon 26-10-2020

bathastronomers — 2020-10-29 07:31:56 UTC

10day old Moon on the day of the announcement from SOFIA team that water had been found in the regolith in Clavius Crater.
Taken with Canon 6D on C11 with 0.7 focal reducer. Single shot in colour, ISO 1000, 1/640

Clavius 26-10-2020

bathastronomers — 2020-10-29 07:37:19 UTC

Big crater Clavius lower left coming out into the sunlight on day 10.
Captured as video with ASI290MC and stacked with wavelets. Very bumpy atmosphere.

Jupiter and Saturn 9 days before closest approach

bathastronomers — 2020-12-14 10:19:51 UTC

Photo taken with Canon 6D on a Celestron C8 and 0.7 focal reducer. Over exposed to show the bright moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Here about 2 degrees apart (Saturday 12th Dec 2020)

10" Newton built in Barbados

2020-12-16 00:16:49 UTC

The mirror box, trunnion plates and focuser mounting were fabricated in England, the carpentry was done on site.

Planets seen from Barbados

2020-12-16 00:23:40 UTC

Taken with Neximage10 on 10" f6 Newton

Moon 19-12-2020

bathastronomers — 2020-12-20 10:27:34 UTC

Taken with Canon 6D on old C8

Great Conjunction 19-12-2020

bathastronomers — 2020-12-20 10:29:50 UTC

Two days before closest approach with both Saturn and Jupiter in the same field of view (closest 21-12-2020). Canon 6D on Celestron C8.

Witch Head Nebula

pylleman55 — 2021-02-11 12:31:48 UTC

90 minutes exposure with a Fuji mirrorless camera and 50-140mm zoom lens.

Copernicus Crater 23/3/2021

bathastronomers — 2021-03-23 21:47:26 UTC

A composite of 4 images each created from stacking top 10% of 1 minute of 70fps video from ZWO ASI290MM-cool on C11.

This gives a larger image with lots of detail to wander around.

Moon 22/3/2021

bathastronomers — 2021-03-23 22:09:24 UTC

A composite of 8 single shot images using Canon 6D, C11, 1/400th exp, ISO1600.

Processed in Affinity to bring out colour.

M35 Shoe Buckle Cluster

bathastronomers — 2021-04-05 19:13:56 UTC

Taken by Mike C on 4th April 2021

Moon over Beckford Tower

bathastronomers — 2021-04-30 14:04:31 UTC

26th April 2021 - Perigee-Syzygy Moon

Sunspots on 25th April 2021

bathastronomers — 2021-04-30 14:07:16 UTC

C11 with Sony a7s

Moon on 24th April 2021

bathastronomers — 2021-04-30 14:14:10 UTC

C8 with Canon 6Dmkii 1/1000sec ISO 1600

Mars and the Pleiades

bathastronomers — 2021-07-01 19:49:33 UTC

Rob Lane's great astro image from the conjunction in 2020

Sunrise and Stonehenge

bathastronomers — 2021-07-01 20:39:10 UTC

Photo by Rob Lane, 5:15am 24th May 2021 using Nikon D850 and 50mm lens. ISO200 1/30sec f/22

Alan Senior - Melotte 15

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 18:58:16 UTC

Melotte 15, a young open star cluster with nearby dust pillars in the center of the Heart Nebula (IC 1805). Captured Thursday night last week. Circa 4.5 hours, SQA55, SV220, IMX571 camera. Hydrogen emmissions are blood red and Oxygen is blue. The SQA55 is a wide field scope so this is a very small part of the captured image. This region really needs a longer focal length scope but drizzling improved the detail very well.

Roger Hyman

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 18:59:37 UTC

Some Ha activity on the western limb near AR4225. this Sunday afternoon.

Roger Hyman

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:01:20 UTC

28th Sep 2025

Richard Bottle

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:02:49 UTC

4-panel mosaic from my Dwarf 3 telescope of IC 1805 Heart Nebula (top-right) and IC1848 Soul Nebula (bottom-left). EQ 30s, +60, Duo 262subs Mega Stack, Stellar Studio, Google Photo.

George Stamets

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:04:34 UTC

A recent result with my Seestar S50 and Graxpert+Siril for processing: a couple hours on the Heart Nebula in mosaic mode

George Stamets

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:06:12 UTC

A recent result with my Seestar S50 and Graxpert+Siril for processing: maybe 3 hours on the Crab Nebula.

George Stamets

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:07:54 UTC

A recent result with my Seestar S50 and Graxpert+Siril for processing: maybe 3 hours on the Pleiades.

George Stamets

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:09:13 UTC

A recent result with my Seestar S50 and Graxpert+Siril for processing: roughly 10 hours on Andromeda.

Roger Hyman

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:10:39 UTC

Tonight's Moon (30th Sept 2025). Its starting to get higher as it gets towards the Full Moon.

Paul Richardson

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:11:46 UTC

A quick capture over about 3 hours in last night's part clear sky. Double Cluster at 288mm FL with my Altair 60mm frac.

Roger Hyman

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:13:06 UTC

Tonight's NASA's International Observe The Moon day. All images captured using SharpCap's Lunar Stacking tool with 200 images stacked together

Alan Senior

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:14:53 UTC

Moon is up and it is quite clear. Saturn is close by. Image captured with Dwarf 3.

Pete Vines

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:15:59 UTC

Tried a little PixelMath in Siril on the Wizard. 44 x 180 Secs, a mixture of mostly narrowband & some broadband. Edge 8 & 533MC Pro

Roger Hyman

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:17:19 UTC

Last nights view of King Alfred's Tower near Stourhead, Wiltshire. The remnants of the Milky Way illuminated by the Moon, so not as clear if there was no Moon. A single 20 seconds exposure at 800 iso on Fuji XPro-2 with 12mm Samyang lens at f2.0.

Roger Hyman

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:18:57 UTC

Trying out other places to photograph the Milky Way. This is at The Abbot's Fish House, Meare in Somerset. Single 20 second exposure at 1600iso with an equivalent 18mm lens.

Alan Senior

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:20:13 UTC

I reprocessed the 30min of UV IR data captured in Wales. Still got the core too close to burnout but the colours are more vibrant this time. The dark skies certainly help the Running Man to stand (!) out.

Richard Bottle

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:21:45 UTC

M31 Andromeda Galaxy taken with my Dwarf 3 telescope.

Combined images from two sessions totalling 4.5 hrs

EQ 275x30s, 522x15s Gain:+60 Astro filter, Mega Stack, Stellar Studio, Google Photo

Alan Senior

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:23:13 UTC

Another image from the Elan Valley. M31 the Andromeda Galaxy shows up well. The wings of Cygnus are just above the trees and a tiny California Nebula can be seen. Canon M50 mk2, 30s, ISO 1600, Tokina atx-i lens at f2.8 and 11mm. It is so dark that even with a really aggressive stretch, so the sky is nearly white, I can see almost no detail in the foreground. I have toned down the green skyglow as it just looks wrong!

Roger Hyman

bathastronomers — 2025-10-12 19:24:50 UTC

Milky Way over Stonehenge 22.09.2025. Fuji XPro-2 with 12mm Samyang les. 20 seconds @F2.0 800 ISO. Adjusted the foreground in photoshop. Only one frame used to get this.

stevekimmins — 2025-10-16 17:21:58 UTC

The Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888, in Cygnus. A shroud like nebulosity around a hot Wolf-Rayet star (WR 136). Plus plenty of fluorescing ionised hydrogen clouds distributed around the vicinity.

Taken with my Dwarf 3 smartscope. 30s subs at gain 60, for a total of 2h. Using the built in narrow band, ‘duo band’, filter to highlight the fluorescing hydrogen.

Some post processing with Affinity Photo.

alan_senior — 2025-10-18 19:40:53 UTC

It is composed of gas and dust sculpted by gravity and stellar winds. This is a dual band image (SV220 filter), Hydrogen and Oxygen emmissions are represented by red and blue. Captured with an Askar SQA55 telescope and Touptek IMX571 camera.

Comet Lemmon

2025-10-29 23:37:15 UTC

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)

bathastronomers — 2025-10-31 09:17:04 UTC

Seestar S50 view over 4 mins. S50 tracking stars so comet blurred by its own motion

Mineral Moon

alan_senior — 2025-11-08 16:45:38 UTC

Visually a Moon high in the sky shows little colour. Photos of the Moon can be boosted to show subtle colour variations caused by different mineral compositions.

The slightly blue areas are rich in Titanium and the redish-orange are richer in iron.

This image was captured with a Dwarf 3 smart telescope, then enhanced to boost the colours using Goigle Photos and Snapseed apps.

The Dumbbell Nebula M27

bathastronomers — 2025-11-09 11:51:34 UTC

A view of the Dumbbell Nebula whilst it was high in the sky above Lansdown Playing Field South. Taken with Seestar S50 with 10second exposures totalling 6 minutes. Post processed with the AI tool in the Seestar App.

Andromeda Galaxy core and M110

bathastronomers — 2025-11-09 11:55:53 UTC

26 minutes of integration using 10 second subs on the Seestar S50 and a night with high cloud and degrading conditions. Post processed with the S50 App AI enhancer.

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon

martinhfarrell — 2025-11-12 10:20:48 UTC

Seestar S50, got about 15 mins. Processed i Pixinsight and Photoshop.

Mare Crisium

alan_senior — 2026-01-09 18:35:18 UTC

Mare Crisium (Sea of Cries) and the Cleomedes crater show up well near the terminator in this shot of the Moon. The tiny but odd shaped craters Messier and Messier A in Mare Fecunditatis have also been captured.

Captured with a Celestron C5 and IMX678 colour camera mounted on a tracking mount.