I’m looking forward to being back at the fantastic Astronomy Festival 🌙⭐️ This year I’ll be there with The Society for Popular Astronomy stand. I’ll be located in one of the tents next to First Light Optics Come say hi and find out about the work the SPA does and how you can join the Society.

A fantastic free Space Event is happening in Wolverhampton next month. Please come along and enjoy the day! Please share this post, thank you

M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy Vaonis Vespera III 4 hours, 30 minutes Taken over two separate night using the multi-night observation option. The image is straight off the scope, no post processing. Many thanks to First Light Optics for sending this scope out.

Wednesday 17th June 2026 A beautiful thin Crescent Moon is visible tonight and just above it you can see the planet Venus. The Moon is a Waxing Crescent around 11% illuminated. Seestar S50 iPhone 15 Pro

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The Wizard Nebula (NGC7380). One of my favourite targets. Night darkness is getting shorter now so it was good to shoot a few clear hours last night. 165 minutes x 60 second exposures. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The Full Moon (Blue Moon) is very low in the sky tonight. No chance of getting my scopes on it, especially as cloud is getting thicker too. It looks quite atmospheric through the trees I think. Sunday 31st May 2026

Star trails from last night using my Seestar S30 Pro. Unfortunately the sky brightened too much on the second image, but I did notice something interesting towards the top right. Could this be a meteor or is it just a satellite I wonder? Tuesday 26th/Wednesday 27th May 2026

Our beautiful Moon through hazy clouds. Friday 22nd May 2027 Seestar S50

Tonight’s incredibly bright ISS pass. Friday 15th May 2026 at 22:21 iPhone 15 Pro with NightCap Camera App

Our Sun Sunday 10th May 2026 Seestar S50

Various stall with space related activities today, including a fabulous planetarium show ⭐️🪐🌙

First Light with the Vaonis Vespera III Our Sun This image is straight off the scope, no post processing. Many thanks to First Light Optics for sending this scope out. Note that is not Billie guarding the scopes, that is Billie’s friend Callie.

Fantastic day at the BAA/SPA Back to Basics event in Newquay. Sadly the sun didn’t come out for us to use the solar scopes but it was a fantastic event with loads of great talks. My talk was well received, I had lots of people come up to ask my questions afterwards which was great ⭐️🌙🪐

Wednesday 29th April 2026 Star Trails imaged over 165 minutes Seestar S30 Pro I am absolutely blown away by this little scope, I have always loved star trails and this scope makes them so easy to do. #seestars

There’s still time to get a ticket for this fantastic event in Newquay, Cornwall this coming weekend. I’m one of the speakers at this event, I’ll be giving An Introduction to The Night Sky. Looking forward to a fabulous day and to spending some time by the sea!

Wednesday 29th April 2026 96% Illuminated Waxing Gibbous Moon Seestar S50

Moon and Sun Monday 27th April 2026 Seestar S50

Our Sun Monday 27th April 2026 Lots of lovely Sunspot groups to see. Seestar S50 Baader Film Filter from First Light Optics

The bright Moon impacted my images last night, but here they are. Clouds rolled in around 1am so that put a stop to my evening. Seestar S30 and S50 Saturday 25th April 2026

Daytime Moon Saturday 25th April 2026 Seestar S50

Saturday Sunshine ☀️ Seestar S50 Saturday 25th April 2026

NGC6992 The Eastern Veil Nebula Located in the constellation Cygnus, it forms part of the Cygnus Loop Seestar S30 Saturday 25th April 2026

Star Clusters and Galaxies Friday 24th/Saturday 25th April 2026 Seestar S50 and Seestar S30

Tonight’s First Quarter Moon Friday 24th April 2026 The Lunar V is faintly visible right now. I’ll check in a couple of hours time when hopefully the V and X will be visible. Seestar S50

I left my old phone outside last night in hope of catching some Lyrid meteors, this is the only possible one that it caught. It’s very faint, towards top left of the photo. Friday 24th April 2026

A repeat performance! First Quarter Moon in another beautiful blue sky this evening! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Billie takes his telescope monitoring duties very seriously, he paces around it whilst it’s imaging. Today’s Sun and Moon with my Seestar S50. Thursday 23rd April 2026

Hazy clouds around tonight but I managed to grab some more images with my Seestar S30 Pro and my S50. I sat out looking for Lyrids until well after midnight but had no luck. Wednesday 22nd April 2026