Amateur Astronomy from Edinburgh
This website is a place where I can post my images purely for the fun of it. You can find more information about the equipment I use on the About/Equipment page. Some of my best images are on display on the Showcase page.
To give me something to aim for, I have set up pages to get as many Messier and Lunar 100 objects as I can. The Deep Sky page is for objects not in Messier’s catalogue and includes some more recent lists such as the Caldwell and Finest NGC catalogues.
Light pollution is a serious problem for amateur astronomy here on the edge of Edinburgh, Scotland, so this is a battle of photons vs sodium! Please come back and visit as the site develops, I make lots of mistakes, the weather gets worse and the skies get brighter.
Mark
Recent posts
Saturn 2026-07-04 ASERO
From Trevinca Skies in Spain using the ASE’s C11 EDGE HD
Ring identification:
Saturn using ASERO
Details in the image. Closeups:
ISS Lunar Transit 2026-05-25
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| Object ID | ISS Lunar transit |
| Details | 2026-05-25 19:18:32 |
| Telescope | 250mm f4.8 Newtonian |
| Camera | PlayerOne Mars-C II |
Earthshine and Pleiades
Venus only 5° away (not shown)
Eratosthenes ASERO scope
First Moon image from the SCT added to ASERO in Spain that I setup.
| Object ID | Moon / Eratosthenes |
| Details | 2026-03-27 20:28 UT |
| Telescope | C11 Edge HD, 2x Powermate 5600mm fl |
Jupiter 2026
All general Jupiter images in 2026.
Aristillus, Autolycus and Montes Caucasus
| Object ID | Aristillus, Autolycus and Montes Caucasus |
| Details | 2026-03-25 22:00 UT |
| Telescope | 250mm f4.8 Newtonian |
| Camera | PlayerOne Mars-C II |
| Filters | L |
| Exposure(s) |
Lunar ‘V’ and Rima Hyginus
| Object ID | Lunar ‘V’ and Rima Hyginus |
| Details | 2026-03-25 21:58 UT |
| Telescope | 250mm f4.8 Newtonian |
| Camera | PlayerOne Mars-C II |
| Filters | L |
| Exposure(s) |
Lunar Alps in shadow
Sun just catching the peaks of the Lunar Alps and keeping the Alpine Valley in shadow.
| Object ID | Lunar Alps, Alpine Valley Aristotenes, Eudoxus |
| Details | 2026-03-25 21:28 UT |
| Telescope | 250mm f4.8 Newtonian |
| Camera |
Bessel rays across Mare Serenitatis
| Object ID | Bessel, Mare Serenitatis |
| Details | 2026-03-25 |
| Telescope | 250mm f4.8 Newtonian |
| Camera | PlayerOne Mars-C II |
| Filters | L |
| Exposure(s) | 83s fps .ser |
Neper, Mare Smythii, Humbolt
Not great seeing
| Object ID | Neper, Mare Smythii, Humbol7 |
| Details | 2026-03-03 20:50 UT, 21:01 UT, 21:11 UT |
| Telescope | 250mm f4.8 Newtonian |
| Camera | PlayerOne Mars-C II |
| Filters | L |
Aristarchus, Kardanus and Krafft
Not great seeing
| Object ID | Plato craterlets, Alpine Valley fault |
| Details | 2026-03-02 21:44 UT, 21:48 UT |
| Telescope | 250mm f4.8 Newtonian |
| Camera | PlayerOne Mars-C II |
| Filters | L |
Plato craterlets and Alpine Valley
Not great seeing
| Object ID | Plato craterlets, Alpine Valley fault |
| Details | 2026-02-28 18:58 UT |
| Telescope | 250mm f4.8 Newtonian |
| Camera | PlayerOne Mars-C II |
| Filters | L |
Oval BA 2012 – 2026
Discovered I had this feature in my archives and how it has changed over the years. It really did seem to be a mini GRS, almost as red as the GRS itself, but recently it has barely any red at all and has faded quite a lot.
Oval BA is a red storm in Jupiter’s southern […]
Jupiter 2026-01-03
Poorer seeing so much more sharpening required in waveSharp
Comparison between subtle and harsher sharpening.
Jupiter 2025-12-30
First of the season for me. Got the eADC to work prooperly which makes a hughe difference.
10x60s videos derotated. First time I’ve had detail on one of the Moons.
Bad seeing comparison from a few days later. This shows dramatic difference seeing makes: same amount of data (10x60s videos), equipment and processing. The one on the […]