Here are some of my personal favourite wallpapers for your desktop (and iPhone). Sizes 1900×1200, 1024×768, 1280×800 and 800×600 are all here to fill your eyes with spacey goodness. Let your own scattering of icons sit amongst glorious nebula and spectacular scenes!

I usually have a nice space picture as my…

Colorado Meteor
Originally uploaded by Mr Geoff.

Yes its that time of year again, get your 12 things ready and then pootle outside to watch the Perseids. This meteor shower peaks on Sunday night (I think) but you can catch some good shooting stars anytime up to about Tuesday really.

This photo…

This is an Infra Red telescope with a 30m dish found in Sierra Nevada, Spain. I have used data from this scope in my own research and hadn’t realised quite how cool it looked in reality.

This is a lovely long-exposure photo where the telescope dome has been rotated to allow the shot to appear to show the whole scope. The 0.8m telescope is the Haute-Provence Observatory built in 1937 near the current site of St.Michel l’Observatoire. I once went to…

This image from Flickr shows the rising Sun as it glows through the clouds. It is quite reminiscent of nebula containing or reflecting powerful light from stellar nurseries and is a good reminder that sometimes these nebulae are not always as…

Haven’t seen much that I’ve liked in the Astrophotography group on Flickr lately but I went trawling earlier and found this lovely capture of the ISS from someone’s back garden. Thought it was worth sharing.