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This is the Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888, an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. It is about 5000 light-years away...
17/09/2026

This is the Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888, an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. It is about 5000 light-years away from Earth. The nebula is formed by the fast stellar wind from the Wolf-Rayet star WR136 colliding with the slower moving wind ejected by the star when it became a red giant around 250,000 years ago.
22 minute stacked image on the Seestar S50, taken at Network HQ.

Here is a 33 minute stacked image of 'The Cygnus Wall,' the southern part of the huge North America Nebula, NGC7000. Thi...
13/09/2026

Here is a 33 minute stacked image of 'The Cygnus Wall,' the southern part of the huge North America Nebula, NGC7000. This is an emission nebula made of ionised hydrogen gas about 2500 light years away from us. Located in northern Cygnus, the nebula is virtually overhead Network HQ on September evenings.

Here at Network HQ, we do like a good celestial pairing: Such as this fine example in the northern constellation of Ceph...
13/09/2026

Here at Network HQ, we do like a good celestial pairing: Such as this fine example in the northern constellation of Cepheus. The cluster at the bottom left of the image is NGC6939, which is around a billion years old and approximately 4000 light years away from us. In contrast, the galaxy at top right, 'The Fireworks Galaxy' NGC6946, is vastly further away from us at a distance of 25 million light years. The Fireworks Galaxy obtained this name from the large number of supernova explosions that have been observed there.
27 minute stacked exposure on a Seestar S50.

Today's sunspot activity, imaged through the 6 inch GPT at Network HQ.
24/08/2026

Today's sunspot activity, imaged through the 6 inch GPT at Network HQ.

Now that the dark nights are returning, here at Network HQ we can get back to the serious business of proper nighttime a...
20/08/2026

Now that the dark nights are returning, here at Network HQ we can get back to the serious business of proper nighttime astronomy. The summer Milky Way is full of delights, and to prive the point here are a few of this evening's observing targets: M27, the Dumbbell Nebula, and two of the brighter regions of the Veil Nebula in Cygnus.

Today's sunspts, imaged from the Ellington Cosmological and Heliospheric Observatory.
01/05/2026

Today's sunspts, imaged from the Ellington Cosmological and Heliospheric Observatory.

Last night's best lunar images, taken with the 6 inch GPT.
30/04/2026

Last night's best lunar images, taken with the 6 inch GPT.

The crescent moon, captured on the evening of the 21st April from Network HQ with the 6 inch GPT.
23/04/2026

The crescent moon, captured on the evening of the 21st April from Network HQ with the 6 inch GPT.

This image of the Virgo cluster galaxies Messier 84 and 86 also reveals a number of fainter galaxies in the same field o...
23/04/2026

This image of the Virgo cluster galaxies Messier 84 and 86 also reveals a number of fainter galaxies in the same field of view. M84 and M86 are a pair of giant elliptical galaxies about 60 million light years away, looking towards the central region of the Virgo Cluster.
19 minutes of stacked exposures on the Seestar S50, 21st April from Network HQ. Annotated image taken from the web.

It's a good day for solar observing at the Ellington Cosmological and Heliospheric Observatory. Stable sky conditions ar...
13/04/2026

It's a good day for solar observing at the Ellington Cosmological and Heliospheric Observatory. Stable sky conditions are giving good views of the sun's surface.

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