This is our deep sky astrophography gallery

A mixture of individual and joint images from club members.

Photographing deep sky objects such as galaxies and nebulae can be complicated, time consuming and costly.  The most arduous and expensive part of the operation is capturing the original image or rather images, of which there may be 100s captured over many hours using sophisticated astronomical equipment.

Less arduous (as it’s done indoors at leisure) is the processing of those images (a.k.a. data) on a computer, something that may also take hours and which is almost as much an art as a science.

Occasionally Club members will share the workload as shown by our first 6 images which are a collaboration between Mark Tomlinson (image capture) and Ian Coopland (image processing).

Cocoon nebulae Nov 2025: Original image captured by Mark Tomlinson, final image processed by Ian Coopland
M33 galaxy: data Mark T processing Ian C
Iris Nebulae: MT and IC
Wizard Nebulae by Mark and Ian
NGC2403 is 8 million light years away (MT/IC)
Fireworks galaxy captured by Mark and brought to life by Ian

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