Updated in September 2026 to cover the latest round of changes.
For a while this site was a single landing page: a signpost to Instagram and YouTube, and not much else. That kept things simple, but it meant there was nowhere on the site itself to actually look at the pictures, or to read about how they were made.
That's changed.
What's new
- The gallery is back, in full. Every image from the old site is here, from the very first Moon shot through the Celestron in 2020 to the latest narrowband work. Tap any image for the full view, with the kit, filters, exposures and total integration time wherever I noted them down. Swipe or use the arrow keys to move between images, and each one has its own link you can share.
- Search and filter the gallery. Narrow things down by object type, telescope or camera, or type in the search box if you know what you're after. Each filter shows how many images match, so you can see what's there straight away.
- A map of my deep-sky images. The sky map plots every deep-sky object in the gallery on the night sky, with the constellations drawn in so you can get your bearings. Drag and zoom around it, and tap an object to see the image.
- The blog archive is restored. All the original write-ups are back: the Astro 101 series, the StarNet guide and the processing walkthroughs, plus every YouTube video as its own post, with the player and a written version alongside it. You can search, or filter by topic or by the type of object a post covers.
- Clear Night, a forecast built for imaging. Clear Night grades each night Clear, Good, Fair or Poor for astrophotography. It looks at cloud at each altitude, rain, wind, gusts and dew, plus seeing and transparency for the next few nights, with the Moon shown alongside. It's strict on purpose: any real chance of rain or strong wind rules a night out, because that's what ruins kit. There's more on it in its own post.
- Quicker, and built for phones. Most of you read on a phone, so the whole site is designed for small screens first. Pages now arrive ready-built rather than being put together in your browser, so they appear faster and don't jump about while loading, and images further down a page only load as you scroll to them.
What's coming
New captures will go up here as well as on Instagram, and new videos will get their own posts as they go up.
On the blog side, the plan is the same mix as before: target guides for the objects in the gallery, processing walkthroughs in PixInsight, and the occasional bit of kit talk.
I might also broaden things out a bit. My interest in space goes well beyond what I can point a telescope at, so over time the site could cover anything space-related that grabs me. That means astrophotography and the kit for it, image processing, and timely news and events too: a heads-up before an eclipse, a rocket launch worth staying up for, or the latest from NASA and ESA. Same site, just a wider view of the sky.
If there's something you'd like covered, leave a comment on one of the YouTube videos. That's the quickest way to reach me.
Clear skies!