Stars and Planets
Mostly from my back garden
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The crater Tycho on the moon
Comet Neowise 2020
Comet 2022 E3 ZTF
Interstellar Comet 3i Atlas 2025
Jupiter with the red spot showing
Jupiter with Io casting a shadow
Mars at opposition 2020
Saturn 2022
Venus, Mars & Jupiter 2025, Saturn 2022
The Seven Sisters
The whole of Orion
The Orion Nebula
With a C6 Schmitt-Cassegrain. C6's seem to make these loops on bright stars - I like the imperfection.
The Horsehead and Flame in Orion
The Rosette in Mononceros
Thor's Helmet Nebula in Canis Major - near Sirius.
The Owl in the Great Bear
The Veil Nebula in Cygnus
The Eastern Veil
THe Western Veil or Witches Broom
The Christmas Tree and Cone
The Heart
The Soul
The Crescent and the soap bubble
The California nebula in Perseus
The Tulip in Cygnus and location of X1
The Jellyfish in Gemini
M13 - The Hercules Globular Cluster. Probably a small Galaxy ours 'ate' a few billion years ago.
The Andromeda Galaxy
Pinwheel Galaxy in Ursa Major
Supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy 2022
Bodes and the Cigar
The Cigar is exploding on a galactic scale owing to interaction with Bode's galaxy.
M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy in Canis Venatici. The blob on the tail at right is another galaxy that crashed through it around 60M years ago.
The Triangulum Galaxy
One of the largest structures you can photograph is Markarian's Chain in Virgo. A group of galaxies moving together.