Solar System

Comet 2022 E3 ZTF

100 x 30secs DSLR (Canon 1100D)

24 x 2mins Lum with Atik460EX on ED72

Apprxo 1 1/2 hours 

Imaged near Auriga on 6th Februyary 2023 


Stacked in DSS comet mode 


Comet Neowise 2020


11 x 5 secs Modified Canon 1100D  Samyang 135mm @ f2.8Bortle 8 looking towards the glare of London. (I live in SE London)July 2020 - SE London

Comet Lovejoy 2015

Atik314L + DSLR for RGBLum approx 1 hour of 2 x 15 & 5 x 5minsDSLR 14 x 2mins stacked manually in photoshop.DSLR and ED120 
January 2015 - SE London 

Clavius Crater

Skywatcher ED120, DBK21 webcam & 3 x Barlow
April 2017 - SE London 

Jupiter

DBK 21 ED120 + 3 x barlow 
April 2017 - SE London 

Jupiter

Really need a larger scope to get better detail, but this is all I have for now.  ED120 + 2 x barlow + DBK21AU14 

March 2016 - SE London 

Plato Crater

DBK 21, ED120 + 3 x barlow 
April 2017 SE London 

Appenines

DBK21, ED120 + 3 x Barlow 
April 2017 SE London

Sunspots

Huge sunspots which produced a large CME and aurora. 

Mercury Transit

NEQ6 ED120 & Modified Canon 450DOnly managed one image due to cloud, had planned to do a mosaic throughout the day.October 2016 SE London 

Close up on Transit of Mercury


October 2016 SE London 

Lunar Eclipse 

Full lunar eclipse 28-9-201511 x 1/1 @ 1600isoModified Canon 450DHEQ5 & ED80 
September 2015 =- SE London 

Lunar eclipse sequence over approximately 1 hour


September 2015 =- SE London 

Lunar Eclipse animation 

Sequence on YouTube:https://youtu.be/cQ5aa4mdV-ESeptember 2015 =- SE London 

Aurora

Iceland February 2013 

Auroral animation, from about 10 slides.  Hadn't planned an animation, so the shots are too long making jumps between exposures. 

Aurora

Iceland February 2013

Aurora

Iceland February 2013

Comet Lovejoy

14 x 2mins stacked manually in photoshop.DSLR and ED120 
January 2019 SE London 

Ptolemaus Group

July 2013 - SE London 

Moon 

Almost first Quarter taken with DSLR
May 2012 - Northiam Kent 

Solar Disc

PST and DMK21

March 2013 - SE London 

The Earth's Shadow

Taken at the East Sussex Astro Camp
2019 

The Earth's Shadow from Spain 

June 2019 - Costa Del Sol 

Saturn

Rings edge on - seeing poorAtik 1HS 11 CCd camera & 5 x powermateWO Megrez 72 APO
23 January 2009

Saturn

May 2012 - SE London 

Sunspots 

Probably 2010

Huge Sunspots at Kelling Heath 

which produced Aurora at Kelling Heath 3 evenings laterThey are known as sunspots 11302 which produced an X1.0 class solar event CME
September 2011 - Kelling Hetah, Norfolk

Aurora

Iceland February 2013 

Aurora

Iceland February 2013 

Aurora

Iceland February 2013 

Aurora

Iceland February 2013 

Archimedes Area

AVI using sharpcap and deforked ETX125 with DMK21
April 2013

Sunspots

Using a solar filterUsing friend's Televue 85 ApochromaticModified Canon 450D Shutter Speed 1/8002011

Venus

2011 

Saturn

1865 frames using K3CCDtools stacked in RegistaxSkywatcher ED120 + 2 x barlow

2011

 Jupiter & Galilean Moons 

Deforked ETX125 on NEQ6Webcam SPC900
 10-9-11

 Uranus 

Very small and difficult to see even on the webcam

Manually guided using a deforked ETX125 on NEQ6

Webcam SPC900

10-9-11