The awesome team First Light Optics recently released this public data in and around the stunning Crescent Nebula, taken from their Ikarus Observatory in Spain…here’s my crack at it…🔭📸✨ #Astrophotography #Space #ThePhotoHour

Image taken with a StellaMira 90ED Triplet and ZWO 2600MM Pro, through Antlia 3nm 36mm HSO filters, all riding on an iOptron CEM40 mount…🔭📸✨ Antlia Astronomy filter @zwoasi iOptron astronomy

Here’s my latest capture in the constellation of Cepheus…it’s a dark nebula target popularly known as the Rotten Fish Nebula…but despite the negative connotations of its name, I think it’s rather pretty, don’t you? 🔭📸🐡 #Astrophotography #Space #ThePhotoHour First Light Optics

It’s my last image of 2023 and a cliché…but I don’t care! 😜 Say hello to the Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula within NGC 2264 in Monoceros…captured with my remote rig in Spain throughout this week…🔭📸🎄 #Astrophotography #Space #Telescope First Light Optics Antlia Astronomy filter @zwoasi

The Ghost of Cassiopeia in H-alpha, taken with a StellaMira 90ED Triplet and ZWO 2600MM Pro, through an Antlia 3nm 36mm Ha filter…🔭📸👻 #Astrophotography #Space #Telescope First Light Optics Antlia Astronomy filter @zwoasi

A year ago Bordeaux, France, began turning off 57% of the city's street lights between 1 -5 a.m. as an energy-saving measure. Despite public alarm, and rising feelings of 'insecurity', the data suggest that no significant increase in crime resulted. lefigaro.fr/bordeaux/la-ma…

First pass and one night’s data results on my latest project encapsulating the Bubble and Lobster Nebulae…final results coming soon…🫧🦞🔭📸 #Astrophotography #Space #Telescope First Light Optics

Bath Astronomers will be atop Bath Abbey on the evening of Friday 9th Feb for stargazing for late night visitors. Get your tickets at eventbrite.co.uk/e/bath-abbey-s…

We imaged the Sun today using the SeeStar S50! A fab bit of kit. Simple to use too. Y11 enjoyed seeing the sunspots 🌞

We got ours from First Light Optics and they have been great to deal with 🙂

Here’s my latest image hot off my remote imaging rig in southern Spain…first go at the Rosette in mono…🔭📸 #Astrophotography #Space #ThePhotoHour First Light Optics

Trying to land a Jellyfish in deep space tonight…🔭📸🪼😉 #Astrophotography #Space First Light Optics BBC Sky at Night Magazine BBC The Sky at Night

Bobbing along through the cosmic seas of our universe, the stunning Jellyfish Nebula is one of the jewels of Gemini…I took this image with my remote telescope in southern Spain…🔭📸 #Astrophotography #Space #ThePhotoHour First Light Optics

Look at this scope, spotted at AstroFest 2024, it is a thing of beauty! First Light Optics

December 1671, 28 year old Isaac Newton speaks at the Royal Society for the first time. He presents the prototype of the Newtonian reflector telescope. As others look on and laugh, Robert Hooke lambasted the young Newton, commenting that his invention was “valueless and inferior

Why did it take 69 years after Newton for Émilie du Châtelet to publish the French translation of the Principia? It was due to the L’Académie des Sciences and specifically French priest and experimenter Edme Mariotte. When Newton first demonstrated that red light did not

Comet 12P /Pons-Brooks taken last night.

Author, 11, sells 700 copies of space book bbc.in/42PX5z0

The pre-order price of my new book will be held until the 15th of March. It can be ordered from my secure online shop: star-gazing.co.uk/shop