In the early evening sky just after sunset Venus is rising and Jupiter makes it's way east to disappear until later in the year. On March the 1st Jupiter and Venus will be very close to each other as they appear from Earth.The reality is they're millions of miles apart but how it looks from … Continue reading Cosmic Alignment – Venus, Jupiter and Moon
It may or may not have escaped your notice that there's a comet in our neighbourhood at the moment. From Earth it's a faint (like really faint) smudge that you might just be able to see with the naked eye. If you're one of those lucky people that has the time and proper equipment to … Continue reading The Little Green Comet
On Tueday Jupiter was at opposition, this means that the Sun, Earth and Jupiter are all in a line and it's the closest that Jupiter gets to us this year. It also happened to be the closest Jupiter will be for a long time, so I was keen to get out and see what images … Continue reading Jupiter and Saturn – Autumn planets
A few weeks ago the sky was clearer than I've seen it for a long time and after seeing the success of someone else taking a picture with my same camrea I thought I would try the same settings and give it a go. The big variable with taking astrophotography pictures is the quality of … Continue reading A Galaxy of Stars
The nights over the last few weeks have been quite clear over England with the weather being unseasonably dry. This always offers some wonderful night time views of the sky and I knew it was coming up to the time where Saturn and Jupiter were in the sky.Then last week I say that yellowy star … Continue reading Astro Pics – 2 Planets and a Cluster
It has to be said... when you start looking at Moon craters close up it can get a bit addictive. As the Moon waxes and wanes through it's cycles the different parts of the moon are either lit up or cast into shadow, bringing out loads of detail. Copyright Simon Farnell 2022 Copyright Simon Farnell … Continue reading Moon Craters 2
Over the last weeks I've noticed that between cloud and it's position the Moon seems a difficult one to catch, but last week I managed to catch it a few days before it was full. The shadow at the limb of the Moon where the light disappears really shows up the craters there and so … Continue reading Moon Craters
The other week I pointed my telescope at an almost full moon, trying out the fitting to capture pictures using my phone and a moon filter I had a bit of fun looking through and seeing some pretty clear and amazing features. While I was there I thought to myself I know - I can … Continue reading Moon Composite Photo
Earlier in the year I did a little self investing and I bought myself a star tracker. For anyone that doesn't know what this does, it can cancel out the rotation of the Earth so that long exposure camera shots can be taken without getting streaky stars. What it essentially does is rotate the camera … Continue reading Photography and a Lesson in Preparation
The Moon is out closest celestial neighbour and to the naked eye if your eyesight is sharp larger details and craters can be made out. Pointing my camera at it a while back brings out some fantastic detail as these shots taken at different phases show. Image stacking could make these sharper and that's something … Continue reading Shooting the Moon
There's a thing with Photography, no sooner as a piece of equipment allows you to do something that you want it to do more. This is especially true in astrophotography. For years I've been waiting or smartphone camera's to get good enough to take pictures of the stars, finally when I got one that could … Continue reading Astrophotography – Capturing the Milky Way with Smartphone
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