The Coiling Dragon
Messier 78 writhes in Orion’s nebula, coiling restlessly like an asian dragon within a heaven of smoke and glimpses of fire. Its getting a bit late in the season for M78, I had to...
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Mist of Pleiades (redux)
Re-learning some old processing skills that have faded over the past year of relative inaction, I’ve re-processed my previous wide-field image to include some shorter length exposures to produce an HDR version. HDR has...
Mists of Pleiades
The bright stars of Pleiades shine through the mist like dust that drifts within the intersellar emptiness, their pale blue light revealing the seemingly gentle currents driven by the light of the stars themselves....
Andromeda of the Deep
One can’t mistake the wonderful M31 Andromeda galaxy – a popular target for most astrophotographers. However, from Perth, Western Australia, M31 doesn’t get higher than 10 degrees above the northern horizon at this latitude...
The Angel of Pleiades
It is hard to mistake the cold beauty of Pleiades (Messier 45). In this image the blue stars of this open cluster shines through the interstellar clouds that flow endlessly through the infinite night....
The Blue Angel
Wow, can’t believe its been three months since my last post (and even longer since I dusted off my telescope)! I’ve been avoiding doing astro or social media whilst finishing off my uni exams...
The Triad
This image of the Lagoon, Trifid and NGC6559 nebulas was taken on 11/07/2018. It was a tough night to image on, with dew condensing on the telescope early at 8pm when I was just...
