Welcome

I have been interested in astronomy for over 40 years and for much of that time had a particular interest in imaging the night sky. Firstly with film and since 1997 with CCD cameras. Most of my recent images were taken with my 14" f5.2 Newtonian reflector from my heavily light polluted location in Liverpool using an Artemis 285 CCD camera. Observational astronomy is inevitably related to the weather conditions and so Meteorology is another of my interests. Details of the night-time cloud cover records that I keep can be found here.

Recent Images

Comet 2007N3 Lulin

Taken on 1st March starting at 23:17UT with a William Optics 72mm refractor @f4.8. 40 minutes total exposure time using an Artemis 285 CCD.
This colour image is composed of separate RGB filtered images and a luminance exposure added in. The comet moved appreciably during the exposures so a sigma-clip method of combining the images was used to make the stars appear stationary and not as trails.

 

NGC4088 in Ursa Major with the recent bright type II supernova close to the core of the galaxy. This is an unfiltered exposure of 12min, 14" f5.2 Artemis 285 binned 2x2. NGC4088 is 55 million light years away.