Computer programmer by day, love cycling but have a passion for astrophotography, Astro physics and all things space.
Wolverhampton, England
Joined July 2018
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The Lion Nebula, I took this data using the Williams Optics FLT 132 and QSI 660. Roboscopes Pier 7. Imaged from Spain total exposure time was just over 9 hrs photographed in Hydrogen Alpha, Oxygen 3 and Sulphur 2.
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Reminder: the deadline for the next round of RAS grants is 15 February, so get your applications in now!
You can find information on our grants for studies here:
ras.ac.uk/awards-and-grants/…
And information on our education and outreach grants scheme here: ras.ac.uk/awards-and-grants/…
ALT pound coins stacked together.
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An impact on the Moon, seen during the January 21st lunar eclipse, has created a new 15m crater and hit with the force of a over a tonne of TNT according to new research! Still no signs of the second impactor apparently only noticed here at the ROG! ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/res…
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62 years ago tonight, a 34yr-old Patrick Moore stood in front of the cameras and presented the very first episode of The Sky at Night. Happy Birthday @BBCStargazing!
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A lovely pair of galaxies Ngc4747 and Ngc4725 imaged from my garden observatory a couple of nights ago. 1hour exposure each channel in LRGB.
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A short imaging session with my own 300mm Newtonian astrograph from my back garden in th UK
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Great vibe at Practical Astronomy Show today. Awesome to see so many well know faces including Nik Szymanek #PAS2019
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M42 The Great Orion Nebula. photographed from my garden Wednesday night Thursday morning. Just over 3 and a half flic.kr/p/2d8LnuZ
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Looking back at our footage of the #TotalLunarEclipse on 21 January, our astronomers spotted two bright flashes on the Moon - meteoroid impacts - separated by just over two minutes (and thousands of miles!) Hey, @LRO_NASA, time to look for new craters!
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I love how utterly mesmerising this is. The rotation of the Moon as seen by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (Video NASA).
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M81 is a grand spiral galaxy located about 12 million light years from Earth. Near its center is a supermassive black hole roughly 70 million times more massive than our Sun, or about 17 times more massive than the black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy!
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Graham's stunning Melotte 15, in the Heart Nebula: eastmidlandsstargazers.org.u…
What a stunning image.
#astronomy #stargazing #clearskies
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Ngc7023 ThecIris Nebula imaged from my garden on Monday and Tuesday exposure time was just over total 5 hours.
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Anger and aggression sometimes seem to be protective because they bring energy to bear on a particular situation, but what needs to be acknowledged is that that energy is blind. It takes a calm mind to be able to consider things from different angles and points of view.
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Hubble is back!!! At 9:00 PM EDT last night the spacecraft was returned to normal science operations, and at 2:10 AM EDT today it completed its first science observations since October 5. For more details: nasa.gov/feature/goddard/201…
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#HubbleClassic In 2012, Hubble released this panoramic of 30 Doradus, the brightest star-forming region visible in a neighboring galaxy and home to some of the most massive stars ever seen: go.nasa.gov/2pYaxPS
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This is a barred spiral #galaxy 30 million lightyears distant with an active rate of #star births in the nucleus. Its name, NGC 2903. Image: #Anysllum, an amateur #Observatory @AstroSabadell. See the details in the spiral structure !!
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I managed to capture 4 hours of Hydrogen alpha #bling for my image of M33 The Triangulum Galaxy flic.kr/p/2aH4uJ9