Lunar Eclipse September 2015
I’ve only once photographed a lunar eclipse before but this time I stayed up half the night from penumbral encroachment until full red eclipse. … more
Category Archives: astronomy
Pluto atmosphere
Amazing panorama back from New Horizons here. I had to apply the ‘polar coordinates’ tool in Photoshop to see what the atmospheric layers looks … more
Partial Solar Eclipse Oxford 2015
It just so happened that I had my camera while a great big bite was being taken out of the sun on my walk … more
300mm lens astrophotography
Brill Hill Windmill
All the newspapers said that the Aurora Borealis would be visible tonight because the sun had recently spewed out a coronal mass ejection. Armed … more
Perseid Meteors 2013
Mimas AKA the Death Star in 3D
This is an anaglyphic view of Mimas made from the Cassini Space Probe’s Narrow Angle Camera on it’s multispectral imaging pass of the moon … more
Dark Pit on Arsia Mons
This pit on a volcano on Mars had been described as bottomless because no one has spotted any details in the shadow. Having worked … more
Space Shuttle Launch Movie
I was fascinated by the fact that they now put six cameras on the booster rockets to spot any potential damage to the shuttle … more
Iridium Flare
05 May 2009 04:01:26 • -9 • 58° 271° (W ) • 2.2 km (E) • -9 • Iridium 94 I set my alarm … more
