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The darkside of the milkyway from last night, managed to get 11mins of cloud free subs before it clouded over, the 35mph...
11/10/2023

The darkside of the milkyway from last night, managed to get 11mins of cloud free subs before it clouded over, the 35mph gusts were not helping either.
This is facing in the opposite direction to the core, there's a lot fewer stars which means its a lot dimmer and a lot harder to bring out the galaxy's structure.
The red blobs are H-Alpha emission nebula, at the top - Heart Nebula, Middle - California Nebula, Bottom - Flaming Star Nebula.
I also managed to catch M31 Andromeda in the top right and M33 the Triangulum galaxy.
This is a composite image of a tracked, stacked image of the sky, and a single untracked image of the ground (from the same spot).

The stars are shining so bright between the breaks in the cloud...
09/10/2023

The stars are shining so bright between the breaks in the cloud...

Orion in HaGB, looking down Stoneyhill Road at midnight
22/12/2022

Orion in HaGB, looking down Stoneyhill Road at midnight

The Spaghetti Nebula! From my back garden in Harray :)The Spaghetti Nebula is a super nova remnant of a star which explo...
22/06/2022

The Spaghetti Nebula! From my back garden in Harray :)

The Spaghetti Nebula is a super nova remnant of a star which exploded about 40,000 years ago. If you had magical eyesight and you see it, it would appear about 6 times larger than the moon in the night sky.

This is a narrowband image which means the red colour is H-Alpha emissions and the very very faint blue is OIII emissions.

I captured the data back on the 3rd of March when we still had night time, but have been editing it on and off over the last 3 months.

2h of 30sec exposures.
Sony A7sa, Samyang 135mm @ F2, IDAS NBZ, Skywatcher AZ GTi

A slightly longer aurora video, in the first 5 seconds you can see a load of rain, only a few hundred meters away, nearl...
05/03/2022

A slightly longer aurora video, in the first 5 seconds you can see a load of rain, only a few hundred meters away, nearly wipe out my very non water proof camera. Even on a clear night it is a risk you take when leaving your camera unattended in Orkney.
The little dots running about the sky are satellites.

Aurora tonight, trying to hide behind the clouds.
04/03/2022

Aurora tonight, trying to hide behind the clouds.

One from around 9:30pm, the best bits of tonights aurora had passed behind the thick clouds but I managed a quick panora...
04/02/2022

One from around 9:30pm, the best bits of tonights aurora had passed behind the thick clouds but I managed a quick panorama between the frequent hail storms blowing over.
Pic Details: 5 x 2 vertical panorama, Sony A7sa, ISO3200, 4 Sec exposures, Samyang 24mm F1.4 @ F2

Aurora / Milkyway panorama from the driveway in Harray this morning around 3am. Happy to have caught this between the wi...
04/02/2022

Aurora / Milkyway panorama from the driveway in Harray this morning around 3am. Happy to have caught this between the wind gusts and heavy rain 😁

Orion over the Standing Stones of Stenness on Christmas Eve 🥶
28/12/2021

Orion over the Standing Stones of Stenness on Christmas Eve 🥶

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