Category: The Newbie Astrotog Blog

Autumn and Winter means that great targets are back in the evening Southern sky – which is right outside my bedroom window! There are pros and cons to this method […]

The weather recently has been fairly sunny and warm, which is great but, means the skies are cloudy – hazy at best at night. Finally over the past few days, […]

Andromeda Galaxy (M31) – again! With the summer ‘galaxy season’ over, some of the favourite targets are becoming well positioned in the sky and darkness is falling earlier and for […]

Another target that I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to capture. The Whirlpool (M51) is pretty small and not very bright and it’s actually two spiral galaxies that ‘interact’ […]

Lots of people get started in Astro with Moon shots and Milky Way photos. I did plenty of moon pics (see previous Moon Photography post), but had never tried the […]

Yes, some amazing summer weather and lovely clear skies for most of last week, so I had a go at a couple of targets. First I thought I’d attempt the […]

I’ve published a book! OK, so I haven’t written a book (yet), but I’ve put together a dedicated Log Book specifically for Astrophotographers to record the details of their shooting […]

There have been some really good clear skies over the past few weeks. If you have read my Sports posts, you may know I have Carpal Tunnel problems with my […]

I was invited to give a talk to the Surrey Creatives Photography Meetup Group, which took place last Friday. The aim was to talk about Astro from the point of […]

A couple of nights after the last ‘galaxies’ session, there was another clear night (although not quite as clear as before). By far the furthest objects I’ve attempted, these galaxies […]