Star Safari

30/07/2026

Took this with our SeeStar last night during the Full Moon from the Canterbury Astronomical Society. The whole image is about 20 arc minutes across. Pretty sure the annotated star is Proxima Centauri, not as red as I thought it would be, but probably washed out due to the Moon.

23/07/2026

20/07/2026

Snapped this with our imaging setup on Saturday night. This globular cluster is in the constellation of Pavo and is the fourth brightest globular cluster. It was a good night on Saturday - also had a look at a bunch of galaxies not far from this cluster.

17/07/2026

This comet is visible in Capricornus at the moment, the exposure was a bit long so the comet is elongated a bit.

24/05/2026

The Moon over the last few days, except last night. All taken at Star Safari Observatory.

30/04/2026

Both of us checking out the delights of the night sky in the Wairarapa Dark Sky Reserve. Yes we were looking at stuff, not just posing.

29/04/2026

Hari having a look at Orion’s Nebula (M42) in the monster telescope.

28/04/2026

If you see strange lights in the sky don’t just assume it’s an alien invasion. There are a lot of satellites up there and their movement, illumination by the Sun and the effect of looking through our atmosphere can create interesting patterns. Aliens, on the other hand, are unlikely to give us a pretty light show before vaporising us and stealing our chickens.

Steve Cretney noticed mysterious lights in the sky on Sunday night.