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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.

Messier 106 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, at a distance of about 22 to 25 millio...
13/04/2026

Messier 106 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from us. M106 contains an active nucleus which classifies it as a Type 2 Seyfert galaxy.
26 minutes on a Seestar S50 at Network HQ.

A pair of unusual galaxies knows as "The Whale" and "The Hockey Stick". These are two interacting, warped, spiral galaxi...
10/04/2026

A pair of unusual galaxies knows as "The Whale" and "The Hockey Stick". These are two interacting, warped, spiral galaxies located roughly 25–30 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. Due to past gravitational interactions, NGC 4631 appears distorted and whale-shaped, while NGC 4656 has a highly warped, hooked, or "hockey stick" shape.
16 minutes on a Seestar S50.

The Moon this evening, imaged through the 6 inch GPT at Network HQ.
28/03/2026

The Moon this evening, imaged through the 6 inch GPT at Network HQ.

Testing the limits of the Seestar S50: The faint fuzzies at the centre of this image are a group of galaxies called Cope...
21/03/2026

Testing the limits of the Seestar S50: The faint fuzzies at the centre of this image are a group of galaxies called Copeland's Septet, part of the Coma Supercluster. At an astonishing distance of 430 million light years, I'm amazed the Seestar (a 50mm refractor) resolves them at all - alas, well beyond its useful observing distance. For comparison, the second image (in comments) shows the detailed structure of the Septet.

The globular cluster Messier 3 in Canes Venatici. M3 is one of the largest globular clusters known, containing about hal...
21/03/2026

The globular cluster Messier 3 in Canes Venatici. M3 is one of the largest globular clusters known, containing about half a million stars. The cluster lies at a distance of approximately 34,000 light years.
8 minute stacked exposure with a Seestar S50.

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