Starship Asterisk*

A trip of 20 miles last night at 2.30 GMT to a remote site in Suffolk, UK to a unique beach which has been severely eroded recently leaving petrified trees out of the sand making the area look very Jurassic! To get there I had to park up and get push bike out for the last 2 miles down a farm track a...

Finished a recent image of.Makarians Chain with this two pane.mosaic. LRGB image and best viewed full size on link to wander through the age and.all it's galaxies!

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On Isle of Mull , Scotland and took a few images of the night sky . Very dark sky


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Had first light with new Samyang 14mm lense a couple of nights ago (17th March) at Winterton on Sea, UK. Saw aurora for first time , through misty skies .

From a few weeks ago I went out in hope of aurora, sadly not to be so I set up at Happisburgh ,North Norfolk UK by its iconic light house foe 90 mins of star trails

More data added last night to NGC 2175 on a good clear night , Hubble Palette here

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NGC 2175 . Imaged last night in UK.I don't usually rely on such little data but the seeing was very good and its a bright Nebula so put together this narrowband of Alpha, O111 and Synthetic Green

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Did a run of LRGB (90sec) x15 L and (90 sec) RGB x5
added to sky from night after .
Comet Lovejoy. Lots of processing to hopefully bring out detail all round

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A narrowband ,false hue for this nebula, Rosette, total of 30 hours exposure with Ha, O111 S2, plus RGB for stars
I hope the colour has brought something to this image
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Finished the Rosette Nebula and cluster, a 30 hour total exposure with Ha ,o111 and S22 with RGB for stars https://www.flickr.com/photos/shaun_rey/15884697288/
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Its Behind You!
A visit to Gorleston cliffs in Norfolk UK on Saturday 6th December 2014 4.20 PM GMT.
Watched spectacular Full Moon rising . A fisherman in the foreground seemingly unaware of the spectacle unfolding!

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The Rosette Nebula. done with H alpha, and O111 and synth Green. 17 hrs total exposure , on going project for hubble palette but due to English cloudy claggy skies no progress for the foreseeable future!

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Cygnus, summer triangle and St Bennetts Abbey come together in this single, 30 second image from Ludham, Norfolk UK last night . at 9 pm GMT Canon 6D ISO 3200 also higher res at https://www.flickr.com/photos/shaun_rey/15013795404/in/photostream/lightbox/ and full res on my web page www.shaunreynolds...

NGC 7023 Iris Nebula . a 15 hour total exposure ,LRGB of this reflection nebula . Had a few good nights here in Norfolk UK recently. This was done from my garden obs over October Also on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/shaun_rey/15580205496/in/photostream/lightbox/ Full res www.shaunreynolds...

Reflection Nebula and Star Cluster in Cepheus side by side, a tricky one to process. Got lots of data, 400 mins Luminance , 150 mins R, G and Blue.
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Looking East from a North Norfolk village ,Weybourne UK . Saw this boat on beach and couldn't resist a picture with it and the skies

Just visited Kelling Heath star party in North Norfolk UK. Skies reasonable so I took atrip to the nearby coast at around midnight, skies were misty low down and this one is looking due North and the plough and Auriga visible. Also a feint Aurora is visible.

Out and about to capture the last Super Moon this year .Captured a few at Happisburgh, Norfolk UK

Hi, have done another Witches Broom in the HST palette. Lots of signal in all Bands
11 hour total exposure of 900 sec subs.
Williams Optics FLT 98 APO
SXV 694 mono cooled CCD
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A few clear nights and 7 hours exposure on this with H alpha and O111 and synthetic green , a much imaged object but really shows detail in both bands https://www.flickr.com/photos/shaun_rey/14861092700/in/photostream/lightbox/ A full res is viewable on my site at www.shaunreynoldsastro.com Thanks f...

skies getting darker now and I have had some time on the Veil Nebula potion and so far, a mapped colour of Ha and O111 ,14 hour two pane mosaic to make up this image using FLT 98 APO with SXV 694 CCD cooled -10c , 900 sec intergratons https://www.flickr.com/photos/shaun_rey/15032067495/in/photostrea...

First post summer image ,two pane mosaic with H Alpha of Witches Broom part of Veil Nebula. 900 sec subs, 7 hour total .


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Another image from last nights spectacular NCL display!

Have been trying to get some NLC clouds for a few weeks with out success ,until tonight that is when a magnificent display shew itself over Seething Airfield in Norfolk UK at around midnight

whilst waiting for dark skies again , I decided to venture out with new canon 6D and try out some widefield stuff. This has wet my appetite to do more along side the deep sky CCD this winter! Taken at Seething Observatry UK on 1st June at 11.40 pm GMT https://www.flickr.com/photos/shaun_rey/14474803...