The Andromeda Galaxy. 2.5 hours of different exposures...

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Orion Nebula taken on 30th September over Mull between 3am and 4am.

My latest image of the Orion nebula - taken with a modified Canon 450D. Compare this with the next image, also of the same nebula. The modified camera allows the sensor to detect a wider spectrum of light than the unmodified camera used for the other image. It is a beautiful nebula found below the belt of Orion.

The Orion Nebula, Messier 42 - my best photo of the nebula to date. Some 1500 light years away from the earth, the Orion Nebula is a place where stars are formed. Sometimes (on a dark and clear night) you can just make it out as a "grey smudge" under the belt of Orion with the naked eye.

NGC 6995 - The Eastern Veil Nebula. A supernova remnant some 1800 lightyears from earth in the Cygnus constellation.

The Pelican Nebula - in the constellation of Cygnus - around 1800 light years away.

The Rosette Nebula, a vast cloud of gas and dust some 5200 light years away. The hole in the middle measures some 30 light years across!! Taken over Pembrokeshire in March 2013.

Perseid Meteor passing M31, Andromeeda Galaxy

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A single 36 second shot of the Milky Way over Mull on the 28th September 2013. A little light pollution from nearby Tobermory, the high moisture content in the air picked it up. Nevertheless, the Andromeda Galaxy is seen in this phot, half way down the right hand side.

The Horsehead Nebula.

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The Horsehead Nebula, made famous by some stunning images taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a small dark nebula that is silhouetted against the glow of the emission nebula IC434. This nebula is found just south of the leftmost star in Orion's belt and is around 1600 lightyears away from the earth. Taken with a modified Canon 450D and 8" SCT scope.

The Heart Nebula, around 6200 light years away.

An image of Star Trails over Pembrokeshire. This image comprises around 4 hours and 20 minutes of images, showing how much the earth moves around the Pole Star ( in the centre of the circle) in that time.

Latest close up of the Orion Nebula.

The "North America Nebula" (NGC7000) named after it's shape. This lies around 2500 light years away from the earth, in the Milky Way, near the star "Deneb". The colour is an interstellar cloud of ionizer hydrogen. This was an image taken with a modified camera on the back of a telescope I own. A total of 1 hour 3 minutes exposure time.

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Full Moon over Lincolnshire in February 2013. You can even see some colour in the darker areas!

Taken on the 1st January 2012 over the Presselli Mountains of Pembrokshire. One of my favourite images of the Moon as the light has brought out detail of the craters.

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A close up of one of the moons craters.

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Moon rising over Pembrokeshire. This was taken when the moon was just above the horizon and before it disappeared into cloud.

The great Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is a spiral galaxy very similar in structure to our own galaxy. It lies around 2.5 million light years from the earth, and is the closest galaxy to us. On a clear dark night you can just make out the light from the core of this galaxy with the naked eye (if you know where to look!)

Another view of M31 Andromeda. This time taken with a Modded camera and around 1 hour of exposure time.

The Andromeda Galaxy. Taken with a Canon DSLR mounted on a telescope, 20 images at 1 minute exposures, ISO 1600. Images then processed in a program called "Deepsky Stacker".

A widefield view of the Ring Nebula (M57). Around 1400 light years away.

Messier 81, a Spiral Galaxy some 12 million light years from earth. It is found in the North, in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). Taken with a modified Canon 450D and 8" SCT Celestron Scope

Messier 82 - Close to Messier 81, M82 is also known as "The Cigar Galaxy" because of the shape that we see. Like M81, it is about 12 million light years away.

Messier 5 globular cluster, containing up to 500,000 stars, 24,500 light years away and about 13 billion years old!

Messier 13, some 25,100 light years away and found in the constellation of Hercules. and a magnitude of 250,000 of our Suns!

Messier 51, the Whirlpool Galaxy. A distance of some 21 million light years from earth, with a radius of some 38000 light-years!

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Jupiter, taken on a very windy night, 19th November 2011, in the mountains of Pembrokeshire.

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Jupiter and four of her moons, taken on the 15th November 2011 with a Canon 50D attached to an 8 inch Celestron telescope, in the mountains of Pembrokshire.

Messier 27 "The Dumbell Nebula". Located some 1360 light years from earth. Taken with a DSLR mounted on a telescope, 16 images of 1 minute exposure, ISO 1600, then processed and stacked together.

Messier 13 "The Great Glubular Cluster in Hercules" Found in the constellation of Hercules, barely visible to the naked eye, M13 is about 145 light-years in diameter, and it is composed of some 1 million stars! M13 is 25,100 light-years away from Earth.

Messier 45, the Plaiedes (also known as the Seven Sisters). Taken on a mountain in Pembrokeshire, at 1am on a cold February night!

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