Telescopic Star Trails

The motion of the stars in Carina, as viewed through my telescope. Note the different star colours and the ghostly … More

The Butterfly Cluster

An open cluster (also known as Messier 6) in Scorpius which is estimated to be just 50-100 million years old. The bright star … More

Albireo – a colourful variable double star system in Cygnus. It’s naked eye appearance is of a magnitude 3.0 single star but … More

Above – Milky Way in Carina, Crux, Circinus and Centaurus. A region which is rich with stars and interesting objects. Top … More

2017-05-25: Comet C2015/V2 (Johnson) – the fuzzy object lower right of centre – rising through the light pollution of Campbelltown … More

NGC 2070, the Tarantula Nebula, part of the Large Magellanic Cloud in the constellation of Dorado. The distance from Earth … More

Star clusters M45 (Pleiades) in Taurus, M37 in Auriga and the Jewel Box NGC4555 in Crux. Emission Nebula in Eta … More