Orion Returns…

Mars is back!

Conjunction: Moon, Venus and Mars

Conjunction!

Planetary conjunction: Mars & Uranus.

That other conjunction.

Mars at opposition.

With no more images in the pipeline and the bushfire smoke worsening again in South West Sydney – and showing … More

This image of Mars was composed from a 4.8 minute video exposure, using the digital crop feature of my DSLR … More

The Lunar eclipse of 28th July 2018 (pictured above at 5.37 am) was cut short for me by high cloud … More

This is what a galaxy looks like from the inside! Taken in 2016, this wide-field image shows the glory of … More

I love planetary conjunctions and watching the Solar System in action as the planets follow their orbits across the sky. … More

Jupiter, Saturn and Mars are riding high in the Northern sky at the moment. All images © R.Powell

Mars is at its closest point to Earth this month and I took the opportunity to learn the technique of … More

I was hoping to see comets during this observing session but while the sky looked clear, we had high haze, making narrow … More

I haven’t done a lot of astro-photography lately for several reasons. One of them being my attempts to convert the … More