Deep Sky Pix

UK based amateur astrophotographer. Everything is captured by me with my own gear. No remote observatories
No AI generated images
No downloaded data

09/07/2026

Have midges ever spoiled your stargazing? I was getting eaten alive tonight by swarms of the nasty little 🤬!

02/07/2026

The Elephant Trunk Nebula in the HOO colour palette. This enormous cloud of dust and gas is around 2,400 light years away in the constellation Cepheus. Nebulae like this are returning to our night skies following the summer ‘galaxy season’, and I’m eager to get the gear out to capture their faint light.

This image was shot over 2 nights with a Skywatcher 72ED telescope and Altair 26C camera. I used an Optolong L-Enhance filter to isolate the ionised hydrogen and oxygen gases to produce this false colour representation.

21/06/2026

The summer solstice sun burning bright today ☀️. This morning at 9:24 (UK time) summertime officially began in the northern hemisphere. Fittingly, we’ve been treated to a glorious sunny day! From today the days will start to get gradually shorter and the nights longer. Great for astrophotographers and vampires, not for everyone else.
This image was captured with the Dwarf Mini smart telescope.

31/03/2026

I don’t often photograph the moon but the Artemis II launch 🚀 inspired me to point my telescope at our rocky companion floating about 240,000 miles away.

Artemis II will take people further into space than ever before on a trip around the moon. There will be no landing or moonwalk on this trip though, this mission is about testing equipment and systems. The long term aim of Artemis is to set up a station on the moon as a base for missions to Mars.

This picture was taken from my balcony at home with a Celestron 8” HD telescope and Altair 26c camera. I decided to pull out the hues of the minerals on the moon’s surface; the blues are titanium and brown/orange tones are iron.

10/03/2026

My first attempt at a HSS colour palette image, where hydrogen gas is mapped to the red colour channel and sulphur is mapped to both green and blue channels. I think it creates a fiery appearance with its deep reds and smokey whites so it’s perfectly suited to the Rosette Nebula, seen here

02/03/2026

It’s the year of the Fire Horse in the Chinese zodiac, and deep in space there is a perfect symbol for the event - the Horsehead and Flame Nebula 🐴🔥.

24/02/2026

The Whirlpool Galaxy - 30 million light years away. It’s thought that the smaller yellow galaxy is passing behind the larger spiral and tugging on its arms, triggering rapid star formation.

It’s home to the first exoplanet to be found outside of our own galaxy and it’s around the size of Saturn.

This picture was taken from my balcony at home in the UK and is made up of around 7 hours of exposures, shot with an Altair 26c through an 8” Edge HD

23/02/2026

I like to try bring my astrophotos to life and give the impression of flying through deep space. The underlying photo is real - no AI here - and the stars are added as an animated effect in Blender. The Orion Nebula image was taken from my balcony at home with around 4 hours of exposures

$The Horsehead and Flame Nebula. I shot this with a DSLR and budget refractor telescope, great options for anyone startin...$

17/02/2026

The Horsehead and Flame Nebula. I shot this with a DSLR and budget refractor telescope, great options for anyone starting out in astrophotography. The key thing is patience! This image was built up over 4 nights; the first with a filter to collect the hydrogen gas and the following 3 with no filter to collect the colours. But those 4 nights spanned 3 months while I waited for clear skies. In total there are 10 hour’s worth of exposures in this single image.

10/02/2026

The Soul Nebula. I shot this image from my balcony at home over several nights, giving a total of around 19.5 hours exposure time.

The first time I processed this data was the first time I’d attempted a proper ‘Hubble palette’ image so I wanted to give it another try to get a better result. Plus we’ve been under a rain cloud for weeks now in the UK so I needed an outlet - I’m itching to get the ‘scope out again!

Details:
🔭 Skywatcher 72ED on Celestron AVX mount
📷 Altair Hypercam 26c
⏳L-eNhance Ha/Oiii: 109x300s = 9hr 5min
⏳6nm Sii/Oiii: 127x300s = 10hr 35min
🟰Total: 19hr 40min
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