Mercury Setting
Apr 07
Mercury, the innermost planet, is currently making one of its elusive appearances in the night sky. Being so close to the Sun, and fairly small, Mercury is only visible when our line of sight to it places it at its most easterly or most westerly point. The orbit of Mercury is not very wide and so this means that even at its greatest elongation from the Sun it is still only visible for a few days,...
My Red Blue Moon
Jan 01
A really quick to show my snaps of yesterday's partial lunar eclipse, on a blue moon. You can see the little bite taken out of the Moon on the lower-right, caused by the Earth's shadow. Happy New Year. Photos above and below using different...
Photo Messier Marathon 2008
Aug 10
Flickr user FlintstoneStargazer captured all 110 of the Messier Objects between March 7th and August 6th this year. They have all been compiled into a big mosaic.
Help Me Picture the Stars
Jul 27
I have been experimenting with astrophotography from my current, dark location in the south of France. However I am stuck and need some help in both taking and then processing the images. I know there are loads of photographic astronomers out there - I need you!
Moon Darbar
Jun 05
Flickr Find 5 of 5: The Moon. A series of posts displaying some great images recently uploaded to flickr's astrophotography group.
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