Solar System

Eclipse video now with an audio track

My second Montage of the 91% eclipse in Otford Kent on 2nd August 2026

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Solar Eclipse 12-8-2026

91% in UK, taken from Otford Kent

Montage of lots of images taken throughout the eclipse.

I caught a plane flying through the Eclipse

Solar Disc

taken with DwarfMini on 26th May 2026 Showing the AR4446 sunspot group first seen by Perseverance on Mars

Close up on AR4446 (R), AR4448 (top L), AR4449 (Bott L)

Aurora 10/10/2024

Taken from my street, Bortle 8 SE London with Street lights5 Seconds Canon DSLR 1100D

Aurora 10/10/2024

Taken from my street through a loft window, Bortle 8 SE London with Street lights5 Seconds Canon DSLR 1100D

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

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