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I had a cracking all-nighter last night. Well, it's not very long at this time of year. I failed to capture the solar system interloper yet again! But I was pleased to get more stonking Cyngus nebulosity. As the sky brightened, I swapped cameras to capture Saturn. 😁

One big question I got about the observatory is if we have ever pointed all the scopes at one spot? The answer is yes! This is the result of one such effort, 1650 hours of exposure in Ursa Major!

I had overlooked this image taken by the SeeStar S30 while in Portugal last month. This is IC4604, a reflection nebula close to Antares in Scorpius. More details and my latest images are posted here: flickr.com/photos/eaglese…

Before it went all misty on July 12th, I managed to capture one sub of colour data to blend with my Ha image taken in September 2023. Those cosmic pillars are just amazing. More to be captured very soon.

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Yay!! Not captured from home, but I'm really pleased to have finally caught it. More details here: star-gazing.co.uk/WebPage/a11pl3…

A quick jaunt to one of my favourite places tonight to view the stunning new full dome show from NSC Creative. 😍 It's Madness, I tell you.

40 million years ago, a star in a distant galaxy (NGC7331 in Perseus) came to an extremely dramatic end of life as a supernova. We are only just starting to see this now as the light races past us. It's been cloudy for ages, so used the Schools' Observatory to capture this image.

A colour image of NGC7331 taken by the Schools' Observatory. Two stretches, one to highlight supernova and the other for the fainter spiral arms.

Caldwell 011, The Bubble Nebula, NGC7635. 6" Classical Cassegrain. ASI2600MC. Askar C1 filter.

Another one from last night. NGC 7308, The Wizard Nebula. I only managed to capture 10 subs before the clouds rolled in.

Animated GIF of the supernova in NGC7331, with an image I took of the galaxy in September 2021.

Another image from Monday night / Tuesday morning. Image of NGC 7635, The Bubble Nebula, created by combining narrowband filtered images. More of my images are posted here: flickr.com/photos/eaglese…

It was another reasonable night for imaging last night, until it got murky. This is the Pacman Nebula in Cassiopeia, with a close-up of the central region. Want to see more? Go to: flickr.com/photos/eaglese…

There was also a lot of faint, dusty stuff available for imaging in Ha last night. flickr.com/photos/eaglese…

Last night was another great night of imaging until 4am. Here are a few faint Hydrogen Alpha regions.

A bit of an experiment in the early hours last night, trying to bring out the Hydrogen Alpha regions in Messier 31, The Andromeda Galaxy. One to try properly once we get proper dark nights back.