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Astrophotography

Imaged from a back garden in London, in a Bortle 5 zone — narrowband filters and long integration to pull faint structure out from under the glare of the city.

Deep sky

The Andromeda Galaxy, a large spiral seen at an oblique angle with dust lanes across its arms — Andromeda · M31

The Andromeda Galaxy imaged with a hydrogen-alpha filter, the star forming regions in its arms showing red — Andromeda in hydrogen-alpha · M31

Bode's Galaxy and the Cigar Galaxy in one frame, a grand design spiral beside an edge-on starburst galaxy in Ursa Major — Bode's Galaxy and the Cigar Galaxy · M81 and M82

The Orion Nebula, a bright star forming region with the Trapezium cluster at its heart — Orion Nebula · M42

The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros, an emission nebula with an open cluster clearing its centre — Rosette Nebula · NGC 2237

The Crescent Nebula in Cygnus, a shell blown by the wind of a Wolf-Rayet star — Crescent Nebula · NGC 6888

The Heart Nebula in Cassiopeia, an emission nebula with dark dust pillars at its centre — Heart Nebula · IC 1805

The Heart Nebula in Cassiopeia, processed to bring out the wider field of surrounding gas — Heart Nebula · IC 1805, second treatment

The Cygnus Loop, the filamentary shell of an ancient supernova remnant — Cygnus Loop · Veil complex, NGC 6960/6992

The Pinwheel Galaxy, a face-on spiral with knots of star formation along its arms — Pinwheel Galaxy · M101

The spiral galaxy M106 in Canes Venatici, with anomalous arms extending beyond the disc — M106 · NGC 4258

The Beehive Cluster in Cancer, an open cluster of several hundred stars — Beehive Cluster · M44

NGC 6058, a small planetary nebula in Hercules, the shed outer layers of a dying star — NGC 6058 · Planetary nebula in Hercules

The Moon

The Moon during a total lunar eclipse, lit deep copper red by sunlight refracted through the Earth's atmosphere — Super Wolf Blood Moon · Total lunar eclipse

The eclipsed Moon in a second frame from the same night — Super Wolf Blood Moon · Total lunar eclipse, second frame

The Moon at 74 per cent illumination, craters thrown into relief along the terminator — Waxing gibbous moon · 74 per cent illuminated

The full Hunter's Moon, the maria spread across a fully lit disc — Hunter's Moon · Full moon

From the ground

An aurora burning red and violet above a treeline — Aurora · From the garden

An aurora above the treeline with the imaging equipment silhouetted in the foreground — Aurora, with the rig · From the garden

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