The Sun now. Less than 6 hours to go 🔭🧪

It's not just Perseids on display tonight. Look at this beautiful sporadic meteor captured last night from Billingborough Observatory 🔭🧪

The Perseids are already doing their thing. The night of the 12th August looks set to be "Amaze, amaze, amaze" 🔭

Wishing you all a very happy Litha and a fabulous Summer Solstice! ​Today marks the exact point our hemisphere reaches its maximum tilt towards the sun, giving us the longest day of the year. ​Have a beautiful day! 🔭🧪

A beautiful evening, a prelude to another heatwave. Stunning crescent Moon and Venus in the evening sky. 🔭🧪

Sometimes I forget how lucky I am to live in a village like this 💚

Happy Beltane 🌿🔥 Wishing you warmth, renewal, and joy as summer begins to stir. May your days be bright, your hearts full, and your paths rich with growth and possibility. ✨

There you go....! Perhaps I've made the situation worse but surely it's the thought that counts 😊

I took this photo from my garden on 27th February 2025. You're welcome to use it if it's suitable.

Here's our view of last evening's fireball over Yorkshire, UK looking from one of our south Lincolnshire, AuroraCams. 🔭🧪

Excuse the mess but this is just crazy that I can watch this live. Thank you NASA and the Artemis 2 crew. #NASA 🔭🧪

Someone please reassure me that the toilet has been flushed on the Orion capsule and this is not a fuel leak happening right now at almost 240000 miles from home #Artemis2 🔭🧪

Space is BIG..!! 🔭🧪

A lovely sporadic meteor captured in the early hours of Easter Sunday. Orbit data in the comments courtesy of the UK Meteor Data Archive 2013 © 🔭🧪

Twilight will make this a tough one photographically....

There she is. All 4% of her. Welcome to astronomical spring Moon 😊 🔭🧪

Terrible seeing tonight with all the chemtrails, I mean contrails 😁, drifting across the sky, but I managed to capture Jupiter with (L to R) Europa, Ganymede and Io. Ganymede's shadow is visible on Jupiter with the Great Red Spot just visible to the right.🧪🔭

For what seems like the first time in an age, we've finally had clear skies. Jupiter captured on the evening of 18th March 2026 at 20:00 UTC from South Lincolnshire. 🔭🧪

I oppose the proposed cuts to funding to astronomy and space science in the UK. Do you?🔭 🧪

At this point I'm wondering why I even built an Observatory? 😭🔭🧪

Wow! A beautiful fireball captured on our zenith-facing AuroraCam in south Lincolnshire overnight. Green hue and a persistent ionisation train lasting well over a minute 🔭🧪

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The Sun at 13:00 UTC. Just 13° above the horizon from my location in the UK. Sunspots 4294 and 4296 give the impression of one behemoth sunspot, rivalling Carrington's of 1859. If we're lucky, or unfortunate, it will unleash a large X-ray solar flare this coming week, causing spectacular aurora 🔭🧪

Have you seen the double cluster in Perseus? These two clusters of hot, young stars appear close together from our perspective but are actually hundreds of lightyears apart, the nearest being about 7100 lightyears away. This photo is a stack of 272, 20-second exposures taken this evening 🔭🧪

That fuzzy, blue ball is actually the planet Neptune. It's appearing very close in the sky to Saturn, only 4.5° (about 3-middle widths held at arms length), but is much fainter at magnitude +7.5 or so. The fact the I can photograph the disk of an object that is 4.35 x 10⁹ km away is awesome to me 🔭🧪

I love Saturn, but I'm finding imaging underwhelming at the moment, I don't know whether its poor seeing or just the fact the rings are "edge-on" from our perspective. Anyway, here's last night's attempt from a rather chilly Lincolnshire, UK. 🔭🧪

We have clear skies, with northerly winds so seeing is probably quite good. However, it's absolutely freezing out there (not literally) and I have a physics tutorial at 19:30. Do I open the Observatory or not? 🔭🧪