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A casual photographer, very amateur astrophotographer with keen interest in astronomy, space and weather. Born and living in the beautiful English county of Shropshire, a proud Salopian.
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The Eastern Veil, NGC6992 and NGC6995, just part of the Veil nebula in Cygnus, a supernova remnant from 10k-20k years ago #dwarf3 #astronomy #astrophotograpy 🔭

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

A few snaps of Tuesday's moon rise, a beautiful colour. 98.5% waning gibbous #Flowermoon #StormHour #astronomy🔭

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The full flower moon rising 12th May 2025 #astronomy

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

A few shots of the afternoon sun with huge sunspot 4079 and a "bluesky" moon at 30% lit. Pic 4 shows an interesting solar transit of the sun by a RyanAir 737-8AS, the planes contrail casting a huge shadow below #astronomy #SunHour #MoonHour #ThePhotoHour #Dwarf3

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Sundays full pink moon, at 4am, with the bright star Spica visually nearby #astronomy 🔭

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Thursdays moon, 95% lit, pics 1,2,3 shot on the Dwarf3 smart telescope, pic 4 shot on nikon dslr #astronomy 🔭

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Wednesday's sunset sequence,lovely to see the sun setting behind a distant famhouse #sunset #weather #stormhour

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

A bright white nearly full moon in a dark blue sky this Wednesday evening over Shropshire, UK #astronomy 🔭

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

A few images off the Dwarf 3 smartscope from the last two weeks a few issues around setting up in eq mode, frustrating at times, but it's a learning curve, a great little scope. Can't wait to try it out on some of the larger nebulas. All images are out of the unit #astronomy 🔭

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

There was a partial solar eclipse here in the UK today, here's a timelapse of the first 80 minutes, clouds unfortunatley spolt the rest. Equipment Skywatcher 80ED refractor and Nikon D7500 dslr using Seymour solar filter. #astronomy #astrophotograpy #partialsolareclipse

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

A few shots/Video of Mondays Space X Falcon rockets 2nd stage excess fuel dump over Shropshire, UK last night after it deployed its classified Satellite #astronomy #spaceflight

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

It's #Saturn ring-plane crossing day! A once in a 13-15 yr event when Saturn's rings are edge on, as viewed from Earth, making them appear to disappear! I'm so infuriated that the Sun is in the way meaning no-one will see it! 😡 We'll just have to imagine it 😞 👇The last time it was seen in 1995. 🔭🧪

submitted 59 days ago • 8 comments

Only 2 days of the year does the sun set behind this tree, (when viewed from the garden), and only when the weather is right, today it was 😎 #SpringEquinox #loveukweather #StormHour #sunset

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

I think this was a chiff chaff in garden? #birds #ukbirds

submitted 62 days ago • 4 comments

The bright white moon in a blue sky #StormHour

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Orion, the mighty hunter standing with a mighty english oak #astronomy #astrophotograpy

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

The full worm moon over Shropshire UK Friday 14th March 2025 #astronomy #astrophotography 🔭

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Wednesday's 98% moon, very bright tonight, the atmosphere looks so clear away from the clouds #astronomy

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

The high moon at 9pm, 9th March 2025 , 82% lit with the Jewelled handle coming into view(pic 2), plus a bonus lunar halo #astronomy #moon 🔭

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Saturday afternoon's blue sky moon, 71% lit waxing gibbous phase #astronomy #moon 🔭 #photography #nikon

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

A hazy sky tonight, with a nice line up of the 30% lit moon with Jupiter, Mars, and the constellation of Orion in view #MoonHour #astronomy 🔭

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Mondays 20% moon, with cloud building the earthshine was hard to get, also Jupiter and moons, plus Venus through cloud #astronomy 🔭

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Another beautiful sky tonight, the crescent moon, Venus and Mercury (below venus, above the wire) #moonhour #astronomy #Astrophotography

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment