Saturn Occultation

Next week will bring a challenging photo opportunity, with Saturn due to be occulted by the Moon. Here in Macarthur…

Venus Transit

No astrophotography for the last few weeks for me, (mostly thanks to 90% cloudy nights) but also probably none for…

With just one clear night during the current lunar cycle, the long term weather forecast is telling me that the…

I devoted my most recent observing night with Macarthur Astronomical Society to galaxies. We were fortunate with the weather for…

The Great Nebula in Carina (NGC 3372) is a naked eye object in the Southern Hemisphere and is very popular…

Having imaged the Pleiades star cluster recently, I found myself imaging IC 2602 (Theta Carinae Cluster) a couple of weeks…

The Lambda star cluster (IC 2944) and the Running Chicken emission nebula (IC 2948). I think I considerably under-exposed this…

Three distant objects, located in a nearby galaxy – the Large Magellanic cloud – 160,000 light years away in the constellations of…

It’s morning on the Moon! Sunrise will take about fourteen Earth days to cross the Lunar disc from New Moon…

The Pleiades is a cluster of stars in the constellation of Taurus, relatively close to Earth – and is a…