The Iron Pot, Orion, Looking North 4am 1st December 2025.

RGB OSC Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8, 38x300 Second Images(Just Over 3 Hours of Data), Image Capture over 2 Sessions, 1st/2nd May and 13th August 2025. Sharpstar 100qii Refractor and ZWO ASI183 Cooled Astronomy Camera and Raw Image Postprocessing in Pixinsight

 

Prawn Nebula, OC9990, IC4628 in Scorpius taken 28th July 2025 with Sharpstar 100qii Refractor and ZWO ASI183 Cooled Astronomy Camera with a Dual Band Ha Oiii Filter, 6000 Light Years Distant. Continuing strongly here with the Astronomical 'Seafood' Theme. 27x300 Second(5 Minute Frames, 2 Hours 15 Minutes Total) Postprocessed in Pixinsight

OCI 1016 Lobster Nebula in the constellation of Scorpius, 8000 Lightyears distant. 26x300 second frames (130 minutes total) on the 5th September 2025 with a Sharpstar 100qii 10mm Refractor and an ASI183 Cooled Astronomy Camer. Frames combined and processed in Pixinsight.a

 Another Friday Night, this time 5th September 2025. I slewed to this random piece of nebulous sky thinking I was getting extra data on another nebula Sh2-54 that I had, from memory, been imaging the night before.

After about 2 hours of capture I realised my mistake and proceeded on to my intended target but it turns out this patch of nebulosity apart from its catalogue designation of OCI-1016 is also referred to as the Lobster Nebula. It has a similar theme and bearing to the Prawn Nebula in Sagittarius nextdoor.

String of Pearls Galaxy, NGC55, 6.6 Million Light Years Distant. Taken with Sharpstar 100Qii Refractor and ZWO ASI183 Astronomy Camera.

 

Howden Timelapse 9th November 2025

Madness took hold and the inspiration came after the end of Sunday Shift at work to pack up the cameras and drive 40 minutes south to the other side of the river and capture some clouds and stars setting on the western, albeit hilly, horizon.

 

10 minute startrail with Canon 760D and 11-14mm Tokina Lens

 

Spiral Galaxy NGC 300

Spiral Galaxy NGC 300.  With a hectic night of on call at work beckoning,(Friday), I captured some shots the night before,(Thursday), of this galaxy in the waxing moonlight, the final image being about an hours worth of exposure .

Distance: 6 Million Light Years away in the Constellation Sculptor.     Exposures 13 x 5 Minutes with a Celestron C8 SCT and ASI533 Camera, then resulting data processed in PixInsight.

Dual Band Ha/Oiii Tarantula Nebula and surrounds, Large Magellanic Cloud, 160,000 Light Years Distant and 1000 Light Years Wide. Vixen ED80 Doublet with 0.85 Reducer Flattner and Modified Canon 550D DSLR. Tracked on Skywatcher EQ6 Mount with an ASIair Mini, 50mm Guidescope and ASI120mc Guide Camera.

30 x 120 Second frames, Stacked and Post Processed in PixInsight. It was a good night relatively speaking with mostly sub-arcsecond guiding.

 

Helix Nebula (planetary nebula) NGC7293 23x5Minute Exposures ASI183MCPro and Sharpstar 100Qii Refractor. 26th August 2025 HaOiii Dual Band Forrax Pallet.

 

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Nebulosity in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Taken with ASI183MC Pro Camera and Sharpstar 100qii Refractor. 145 5 Minute Frames Stacked and Processed in PixInsight and Photo Shop

The nebulosity in this region doesn't seem to have specific designations, only the star clusters either contained within or in front or behind.

From left to right, starting at the top left, Star Cluster NGC330, middle left Star Cluster NGC 346,  middle right, NGC 371,  Next to the right NGC 395 with an area of deep red nebulosity, NGC 395 and just above it, Star Cluster IC1624.  Below a PixInsight anotated version which adds a few more in.

NGC 6188 in Constellation Ara, The Dragon's Head, 30 x 5 Minute Frames, 2 and a holf hours Integration. Taken with Celestron C8 HD Edge and ASI533MC Pro Camera. Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop.