Astro Images 2025

DAS Members Astro Imaging 2025

A page for all those budding astrophotographers out there to show us the images they have captured on their own equipment or whilst using the DAS dome telescopes.

It would be most useful to supply some information on each picture for example, Who took the image?, what is it of? and the date taken. If you can also supply details of the scope and settings as well as the camera used that would be even better.

NLC (noctilucent cloud) observation, around 02:00 UTC on the morning of the 3rd July 2025. Hand held Nikon D3200 camera taken in Belton North Lincs. (Brian Shepherd)

NLC & Venus observation, around 02:00 UTC on the morning of the 3rd July 2025. Hand held Nikon D3200 camera taken in Belton North Lincs. (Brian Shepherd)

NGC6992 the Eastern veil nebula, taken from my back garden in Cantley, using my Skywatcher 150PDS, a cooled ZWO294mc camera with an Optolong L-enhance filter. A stack of 34 frames at 240s, 121gain. (Paul Wilson)

M51 Whirlpool Galaxy taken in June 2024 with a Skywatcher 150PDS and ZWO294MC Pro camera. Stack of 22x3min images processed in Photoshop. (Paul Wilson)

Jupiter with 3 of its moons Europa, Io and Ganymede (Peter Lloyd)

Jupiter with Io in transition, note the shadow (Peter Lloyd)

Our Moon, c.2025 processed from a RAW image using Affinity Photo (Martin Clayton)

Orion Nebula, Celestron Astromaster 130, Samsung mobile phone (Martin Clayton)