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Gallery Pictures

Noctilucent clouds (2011-Jul-09/10)

Noctilucent Clouds (NLC) on night of 9/10th July 2011 Photo by Sheri Karl Click on image for larger view

[ See further NLC picture taken by Nick Bramhall over Westburn Park, Aberdeen ]

Mega Moon - largest full moon for ~20 years (2011-03-19)

Photo by Torcuill .Torrance. Click on Image for larger view
Taken using the Vixen ED103swt on GP-DX mount and Canon EOS-350D camera. Single shot, true colour

Owl Cluster in Cassiopeia - NGC 457 / Caldwell 13 (undated)

Astro Photo by Torcuill .Torrance. Click on Image for larger view

Partial Solar Eclipse (morning of 4 Jan 2011)

Photo by Torcuill .Torrance, Newtonhill

Iridium Flash (13 Mar 2010)

Photo by Christine Macmillan

The Flash (or Flare as it is also known by) is caused by the reflection of the sun off the Iridium satellite's highly reflective solar panels.

A Starry Night Pro simulation uploaded to U-Tube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYb5ssB6xEc ) shows the passage of the Iridium 96 satellite through Ursa Major at 2009-03-13 20:34hUT (along with two other satellites: Iridium 91, following on almost the same track, and Cosmos 1833) as predicted by Heavens-above.com .

NGC 6946 - Spiral Galaxy in Cygnus (20 Feb 2010)

Image by David Richards

LRGB Colour Image ( L : 8 x 90s (C Filter), B : 8 x 90s, G : 5 x 60s, R : 5 x 60s
(12" LX200 + ST-10XME) [Larger Picture]

Lunar Partial Eclipse (31 Dec 2009)

Image by Torcuill Torrance taken with Canon EOS-350D
See Torc's movie sequence of frames taken at 30 sec intervals on U-Tube
See More images of Partial Eclipse by Alan Telford

M20 (Trifid Nebula) in Sagittarus (Jul 2009)

CCD Image of M20 (Trifid Nebula) in Sagittarus, Taken by D.Richards, 2009-07-02

Leo Triplet (M65,M66 and NGC3628).

Image by Torcuill Torrance, click on image for larger view.

Noctilucent clouds (2009-Jun-17/18/19)

Noctilucent Clouds from Newtonhill - 2009 June 17th/18th
Photo by Torcuill Torrance, Newtonhill, Aberdeenshire. (Click on image for large view)
(See Video On UTube)

Noctilucent Clouds from Banchory-Devenick - 2009-Jun-18 Photo by Andrew Phethean.
(Click on image for large view)

The Owl Nebula, M97 (2009-Apr-22)

Planetary nebula in Ursa Major
Colour CCD Image by David Richards
2009-04-22 (Luminance), 2009-05-10 (RGB), ST-10XME / 12" LX200R, Total exposure time 28 mins (Full size image)

See also Image of M97 and M108 taken by Torcuil Torrance

Noctilucent clouds (2008-Jun-19)

Picture by Torcuill Torrance from Newtonhill, Aberdeenshire. 2008-June-19. (click on image for larger scale picture)

Torc's pictures and a 5 MB video made there way onto the top story slot on the June 23rd edition of spaceweather.com and the 2008 Noctilucent Cloud Photo Gallery

M51

CCD Image of M51 (Canes Venatici) taken through 8" LX200 / ST-7e, C filter, 2008-Feb-27
Picture by David Richards

Orion and adjacent sky

Photo by Torcuill Torrance, Stonehaven, 2008 (click on image for larger scale picture)

NGC 3184 (Spiral Galaxy in Ursa Major)

CCD Image of NGC 3184 (Ursa Major) taken through 8" LX200 / ST-7e, C filter, 2008-Feb-25. Picture by David Richards

Comet 8P/Tuttle (Jan 2008)

Approximate Colour Image of 8P/Tuttle taken through 8" LX200 / ST-7e, CBVR filters, 2008-Jan-07
Picture by David Richards [more images]

Comet 17P/Holmes (Oct-Dec 2007)

Animation of three CCD Images, taken on Oct 25th, 29th,30th (2007) showing 'explosive eruption' of Comet 17P/Holmes.
Picture by David Richards [more images]

Conjunction (2007-Oct-07)

Picture by Nick Bramhall. Taken with a tripod-mounted Panasonic DMC-FZ7 digital camera from Nigg, Aberdeen. (Click on image for larger picture)

Noctilucent clouds (2007-Jun-28)

Picture by Rhona Paterson

Total Lunar Eclipse, 2007-Aug-28 (Australia)

Total Lunar Eclipse from Rochester, Victoria, Australia
(2007-08-28)

Total Lunar Eclipse from Rochester, Victoria, Australia (2007-08-28). Picture by Phil Hart.
( More from Phil Hart's Lunar Eclipse Gallery )

Noctilucent clouds, 2007-Jun-28

Picture by Rhona Paterson

New Moon, 2007-Apr-18

David Richards

Total Lunar Eclipse, 2007-Mar-03

Click on images for larger size picture

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Dave Couzin

Comet McNaught, 2007-January

Comet McNaught & Bennachie

Comet C/2006 P1 [McNaught]
around 16:45 UT January 10th 2007
(Picture by Derek Ryan, taken from
Prop of Yythsie, near Tarves, Aberdeenshire)
[ More Pictures 1, 2, 3 ]

Comet McNaught from Down-Under

Comet McNaught,
Picture by Phil Hart , Melbourne, Australia

[ View more of Phil Hart's pictures of
Comet McNaught ]

Partial Lunar Eclipse, 2006-Sep-07

Darren Moody

Partial Solar Eclipse, 2005-Oct-03

Darren Moody

Aurora, 2004-Nov


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Chris Bowden

Venus-Jupiter Conjunction, 2004-Nov

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Comet Encke, November 2003

Phil Hart

Aurora Storm, 20th November 2003


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Aurora Storm, 29th/30th October 2003


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