Latest Update - The Universe 11 July 2025
Equipment List
Skywatcher EQ6R Pro Equatorial Mount
Skywatcher Esprit 120ed primary imaging scope
ZWO 30mm guide scope
ZWO ASI294MC one shot colour primary imaging camera
ZWO ASI290mm mini guide camera
ZWO 5 position automatic filter wheel
ZWO autofocuser
ZWO ASIair Pro and ASIair Plus controllers
Optolong L-Ultimate, L-Extreme and L-Pro 2" filters
Two dew heaters (primary and guide scopes)
Kendrick dual channel dew heater controller
10" Bintel dobsonian telescope
70mm Saxon refractor telescope
M8 - Lagoon Nebula 20 July 2025
Trifid Nebula - June 2025
The Swan Nebula - July 2025
Centaurus A - April 2025
The Fighting Dragons of Ara - 6 April 2025
Herschel's Ray - 6 April 2025
NGC2014 The Cosmic Reef - 14 March 2025
Rosette Nebula - 10 March 2025
NGC6193 & NGC6188 - 14 March 2025
M42 - the Orion Nebula - December 2024
 Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas - 26 October 2024 (Swan Lake, Swanhaven)
NGC300 - 7 October 2024
47 Tuc - September 2024
M27- Dumbell Nebula, 2 September 2024
M16, the Eagle Nebula - July 2024
M8 - the Lagoon Nebula - June 2024
The Dark Bear Nebula - June 2024
M16 - the Eagle Nebula - 30 June 2024
Omega Centauri - June 2024
The Fighting Dragons of Ara - May 2024
Trifid Nebula - May 2024
Gem Cluster and GM Nebula - 20 May 2024
NGC3586 - the Statue of Liberty Nebula 20 May 2024
NGC1955 - 16 May 2024
NGC3199 - the Banana Nebula, 28 April 2024
NGC2014 - the Cosmic Reef, 26 April 2024
The Running Chicken Nebula - March 2024
Whirling Deverish Nebula - 17 April 2024
GUM39Â - 20 March 2024
SH2-311 - 11 March 2024
NGC1763 - 2 March 2024
NGC2018 - 22 February 2024
NGC3372 - Eta Carina Nebula - 18 February 2024
Lower's Nebula - 18 February 2024
IC443 - the Jellyfish Nebula 12 February 2024
The Orion and Running Man Nebulae - February 2024
The Orion and Running Man Nebulae - April 2023
The Xmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula - 19 January 2024
19 January 2024
The Rosette Nebula - 4 December 2023
Tarantula Nebula with stars - 4 December 2023
Tarantula Nebula - 18 November 2023
The Flame and Horsehead Nebulae - 19 November 2023
NGC1763 - 10 November 2023
M20, Trifid Nebula. 15 October 2023
The new observatory storage pod - November 2023
NGC2018, supernova remnant in the LMC - 20 September 2023
NGC2018 slightly exaggerated - 30 September 2023
M22 - 16 September 2023
Saggitarius Star Cloud - July 2023
M8 - Lagoon Nebula 23/07/15
The Helix Nebula - 23 August 2023
M27 - the Dumbbell Nebula - 22 August 2023
Sharpless 2-54 - bright nebula in Serpens - 27 August 2023
Outlying area of Eta Carina 20 July 2023
M20 - Trifid Nebula - 26 July 2023
The Omega Nebula - August 2023
IC2944 - the Running Chicken Nebula - 11 June 2023
M16 - the Eagle Nebula - 27 June 2023
IC4628 - the Prawn Nebula - 30 May 2023
M8 - the Lagoon Nebula 27 May 2023
M20, theTriffid Nebula - 22 May 2023
The Lobster (aka War and Peace) Nebula -Â 21 May 2023
NGC3372 - Eta Carina Nebula - 18 May 2023
The Fighting Dragons of Ara and the disputed Egg - 5 May 2023
NGC3576 - Statue of Liberty Nebula san stars - 27 April 2023
GUM39 - 27 April 2023
IC2948 - the Running Chicken Nebula - 21 February 2023
Sharpless 2-308 - the Dolphin Head Nebula 21 February 2023
The Rosette Nebula
Comet C-2022 E3 (ZTF) - 16 February 2023
Thor's Helmet Nebula - reprocess
The Flame Nebula - 12 December 2022
47 Tucana - star cluster
Centaurus A - 31 December 2022
NGC6193 - the Fighting Dragons of Ara - 22 December 2022
IC473 - Horsehead Nebula 13 December 2022
Another version of the Helix Nebula - 7 December 2022
Waxing Gibbous 3 December 2022
Tarantula Nebula NGC2070 - Hubble Pallette November 2022
Tarantula Nebula - 22/11/2022
Horsehead and Flame Nebulae - 2 panel mosaic - 22/11/2022
Total Lunar Eclipse - 8 November 2022
The Cosmic Reef - NGC2014 - 2 November 2022
The Rosette Nebula in Hubble Pallett
Wide view of Tarantula Nebula 1-2 mosaic
NGC2070 - Tarantula Nebula 29 October 2022
The Horsehead Nebula - 29 October 2022
M8 - Lagoon Nebula in Hubble Palette
Rosette Nebula
NGC2736 - Pencil Nebula (Herschel's Ray) - December 2021
M20 - Trifid Nebula - 30 August 2022
Random Nebulosity - July 2022
NGC6992-6995 - the Eastern Veil Nebula 19 August 2022
M83 - The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy - June 2022
NGC253 - The Sculptor Galaxy - 3 August 2022
M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula - 29 July 2022
The Cosmic Reef - June 2022
The Sagittarius Star Cloud - June 2022
NGC4945 - a spiral galaxy in Centaurus - 18 May 2022
47Tucanae - globular cluster 14 April 2022
M104 - the Sombrero Galaxy - 10 April 2022
NGC2070 - Closer detail of the nebulosity of the Tarantula Nebula - 21 March 2022
NGC2070 Tarantula Nebula - 2 April 2022
NGC1995, 1968, 1974, 2128, 1937, 1936, 1935,1934 1929 and 1940 - 10 April 2022
The Keyhole Nebula (contained within the Eta Carinae Nebula NGC3372) - 22 March 2022
NGC 3293 (the Gem Cluster) and NGC3324 (Gabriela Mistral nebula) - February 2022
IC433 - The Jellyfish Nebula - 16 February 2022
NGC2264 (Cone Nebula and Xmas Tree Cluster) - 26 January 2022
Comet Leonard 2021 - 31 December 2021
M42 - Orion Nebula and NGC1977 - Running Man Nebula , 3 January 2022
Abell21- the Medussa Nebula 2 January 2022
IC405 - Flaming Star Nebula - 31 December 2021
M1 - the Crab Nebula 30 December 2021
NGC2997, spiral galaxy in Antlia. 25m ly away.
NGC2237 - Herschel's Ray - 20 December 2021
Galaxy Bonanza in the Grus Constellation 24 September 2021
Western sky 11 September2021
Moon, 20 August 2021
NGC6888 - The Crescent Nebula
NGC55 - Barred spiral galaxy in Sculptor - 18 August 2021
Barnard 72 - The Snake (dark nebula)
The Dumbbell Nebula
Venus and Moon 11 August 2021
NGC6726, 6727 and 6729 in Corona Australis
Sculptor Galaxy NGC253 (5 August 2021)
M83 - The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (May 2021)
Barnard's Galaxy 12 August 2021
NGC6164 Nebula in Ara -210719
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NGC3324 Gabriela Mistral Nebula (July 2021)
Total Lunar Eclipse 26 May 2021 - Green Point Observatory
Eclipse in Totality 26 May 2021
19 May 2021
M86 (centre) & Virgo Cluster of Galaxies 15 May 2021
NGC4826 The Black Eye Galaxy 12 April 2021
NGC5139 Omega Centauri 12 April 2021
NGC4038 The Antenna Galaxy 12 April 2021
IC4604 Rho Ophiuchi Nebula 12 April 2021
The Leo Triplet, M65, M66 and NGC3628, 24 March 2021
The Milky Way from Berrara Observatory 2018 (Olympus E5 DSLR)
Jupiter from Bangor Intergalactic Observation Platform (Bintel 10: Dobsonian and SVbony camera)
Jupiter and moons 2020
First colour attempt on Saturn through 10" Dob and cheap SVbony camera
6" newtonian reflector borrowed from SASI - trialed in Berrara
Saturn 2020 - Bangor Observatory
70mm Saxon reflector purchased from Salvos Sutherland $120 - Bargain!
10" Dobsonian - first telescope purchase
8" Dobsonian borrowed from SASI
A cold night at SASI Waterfall dark Site
Equipment borrowed from SASI - Skywatcher HEQ5 mount and Black Diamond 80mm telescope.
20 August 2020. The Moon, The Butterfly Cluster, Omega Centauri, Tucana and The Jewel Box.
Saturn
26 August 2020. The Moon, Alpha Centauri, Jupiter and Saturn
29 August 2020
Crab Cluster M26
Wild Duck Cluster M11
Butterfly Cluster M6
Wide field of Pleiades Cluster from Waterfall SASI dark site
47 Tucanae - 4 August 2021
Andromeda Galaxy M31 (NGC 224) and M110 (NGC 205) satellite galaxy - 15 November 2020
Ptolemy's Cluster M7 - 15 November 2020
Orion Nebula 1 March 2021