Behold the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83) — a stunning barred spiral located about 15 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. This cosmic beauty features sweeping blue arms filled with young star clusters, pinkish star-forming regions, and intricate dust lanes swirling around its bright core. Captured with 30×120-second LRGB exposures at the astronomical society of…
I was lucky enough to manage to see a very impressive aurora from Hobart in march 2023, and some minor red glow from melbourne in April 2023. I had been keeping an eye on the sun and its activity, hoping for a better show for melbourne and May 2024 delivered. It was a cold Saturday…
Endless cloudy nights over the last couple of months have really limited my ability to capture any astro photos, and the handful of clear nights have seen me busy/unprepared, or aligning with a full moon. But back in Feb/March 2024, I was able to capture some data on the the Statue of Liberty Nebula (known…
The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is an H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244(Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula’s matter. The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of 5,000 light-years from Earth[5] and measure roughly 130…
We have been slowly collecting the bits and pieces needed to allow us to take astrophotography images from the backyard over the last couple of months and last night, the weather, school holidays and enough equipment finally aligned, and Nathan and I were able to undertake our first ever deep sky astro photography attempt collecting…