Astronomy With Claire
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Hi Claire Bradshaw FRAS, a UK based astrophotographer, women in STEM advocate, public speaker and one part of the creative team behind the book We Reach For The Sky.
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New addition to the solar capable scope and hydrogen alpha filter. This tilts the camera to remove Newton Rings. Whole disc shot 10th August from 12 individual panes. The Sun is 109 x wider than the Earth making some white coloured sunspots greater than the surface area of the Earth. #astronomy
September 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
New addition to the solar capable scope and hydrogen alpha filter. This tilts the camera to remove Newton Rings. Whole disc shot 10th August from 12 individual panes. The Sun is 109 x wider than the Earth making some white coloured sunspots greater than the surface area of the Earth. #astronomy
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September 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
@jd-vance-1.bsky.social Came here to block you. Say thank you.
Sunday 15th June so few prominences but enormous sunspots. This cluster named 4114 experienced a solar flare on the 16th seen as the large white mark in the middle I this NASA photo.
June 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Sunday 15th June so few prominences but enormous sunspots. This cluster named 4114 experienced a solar flare on the 16th seen as the large white mark in the middle I this NASA photo.
This weekend saw a very active Sun! Sol is reaching Solar Maximum after 12 years and soon will decline to solar minimum over the next 12. This was all Saturday 14th June.
June 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This weekend saw a very active Sun! Sol is reaching Solar Maximum after 12 years and soon will decline to solar minimum over the next 12. This was all Saturday 14th June.
The enormous star cluster M13 in Hercules... 500,000 stars bunched up in a small region of space.
June 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The enormous star cluster M13 in Hercules... 500,000 stars bunched up in a small region of space.
Some amazing surface detail in black and white (which is how I record it) and false coloured later. The horizontal lines are due to Newtonian Rings; how light bounces between a flat (camera) surface and another surface (the filter). The effect is off set by tilting the camera a few degrees.
June 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Some amazing surface detail in black and white (which is how I record it) and false coloured later. The horizontal lines are due to Newtonian Rings; how light bounces between a flat (camera) surface and another surface (the filter). The effect is off set by tilting the camera a few degrees.
The Sun is 109x wider than the Earth. If it was a sphere 22cm wide the Earth would be 2mm or 0.08in....
June 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The Sun is 109x wider than the Earth. If it was a sphere 22cm wide the Earth would be 2mm or 0.08in....
With the summer in full swing it's Solar Season... 1st June Inc the 3 white dots that are sun spots that caused the Aurora event in the US and Canada later that day....
June 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
With the summer in full swing it's Solar Season... 1st June Inc the 3 white dots that are sun spots that caused the Aurora event in the US and Canada later that day....
Galaxy Season - the Black Eye Galaxy - a thick dark area of dust blocks a portion of the light from the bright core. 17 million light years away.
April 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Galaxy Season - the Black Eye Galaxy - a thick dark area of dust blocks a portion of the light from the bright core. 17 million light years away.
Galaxy Season - the Sunflower Galaxy - a flocculent spiral type 27 million light years away. Its bright core the result of millions of aging stars.
April 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Galaxy Season - the Sunflower Galaxy - a flocculent spiral type 27 million light years away. Its bright core the result of millions of aging stars.
Galaxy Season - The Needle Galaxy - an edge on grand spiral type similar to the Milky Way. The dust lanes are easily seen over the bright core bulge. #galaxy #galaxySeason
April 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Galaxy Season - The Needle Galaxy - an edge on grand spiral type similar to the Milky Way. The dust lanes are easily seen over the bright core bulge. #galaxy #galaxySeason
Galaxy Season - The Whale and Hockey Stick galaxies - both deformed by gravitational effects of nearby objects - bending them out of shape.
April 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Galaxy Season - The Whale and Hockey Stick galaxies - both deformed by gravitational effects of nearby objects - bending them out of shape.
Galaxy Season - M81 and M82
12 million lights years away in Ursa Major - M81 is having a gravitational effect on M82 causing active Hydrogen to be pulled away from it, triggering a huge amount of star formation.
12 million lights years away in Ursa Major - M81 is having a gravitational effect on M82 causing active Hydrogen to be pulled away from it, triggering a huge amount of star formation.
April 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Galaxy Season - M81 and M82
12 million lights years away in Ursa Major - M81 is having a gravitational effect on M82 causing active Hydrogen to be pulled away from it, triggering a huge amount of star formation.
12 million lights years away in Ursa Major - M81 is having a gravitational effect on M82 causing active Hydrogen to be pulled away from it, triggering a huge amount of star formation.
Our local star. 12.30pm UK Saturday 8th March.
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March 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Our local star. 12.30pm UK Saturday 8th March.
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Happy #InternationalWomen'sDay 2025!! Our kickstarter project has just gone live!
A photobook celebrating the lives of 77 women in STEM in their own words.
Started back in 2022,we've worked to bring this book to life - today.
#IWD2025 #IWD
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A photobook celebrating the lives of 77 women in STEM in their own words.
Started back in 2022,we've worked to bring this book to life - today.
#IWD2025 #IWD
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ast...
We Reach for the Sky - the Book
The book celebrates 77 women in STEM & beyond, sharing their stories — in their own words — of resilience, ambition & achievements
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March 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Happy #InternationalWomen'sDay 2025!! Our kickstarter project has just gone live!
A photobook celebrating the lives of 77 women in STEM in their own words.
Started back in 2022,we've worked to bring this book to life - today.
#IWD2025 #IWD
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ast...
A photobook celebrating the lives of 77 women in STEM in their own words.
Started back in 2022,we've worked to bring this book to life - today.
#IWD2025 #IWD
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ast...
Some close ups of the solar photos. Huge prominences many time the size of the Earth leap off the edge of this glowing ball, whilst huge threads of glowing plasma creep across the surface. #astronomy #sun #solar #astrophotography #astrophoto #physics
March 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Some close ups of the solar photos. Huge prominences many time the size of the Earth leap off the edge of this glowing ball, whilst huge threads of glowing plasma creep across the surface. #astronomy #sun #solar #astrophotography #astrophoto #physics
This is a manual composite of the Sun in Hydrogen Alpha taken midday UK on Saturday. The awesome display of energy, a glowing ball of plasma that has existed for 4.5 billion years and will last another 4.5 to 5 billion. It is hard to believe all light and heat we see and feel outside comes from this
March 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is a manual composite of the Sun in Hydrogen Alpha taken midday UK on Saturday. The awesome display of energy, a glowing ball of plasma that has existed for 4.5 billion years and will last another 4.5 to 5 billion. It is hard to believe all light and heat we see and feel outside comes from this
Another fab presentation! This tike at @pierroadcoffeeart.bsky.social ! Everyone was so lovely and loved the cliffhanger interlude! Thank you to my hosts for a great set up including blocking out all of our Suns light... ironic as I talk a lot about our Sun!
February 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Another fab presentation! This tike at @pierroadcoffeeart.bsky.social ! Everyone was so lovely and loved the cliffhanger interlude! Thank you to my hosts for a great set up including blocking out all of our Suns light... ironic as I talk a lot about our Sun!
1m x 90cm / 3ft x ~3ft M42 Orion Nebula print in customers frame. If you want to buy a print, contact me for a size/price. Non UK I can arrange for a local printer to print and dispatch to you.
Let's talk
#astronomyart #framedpicture #art #astronomyprint #astrophotographers #astrogift #printgift
Let's talk
#astronomyart #framedpicture #art #astronomyprint #astrophotographers #astrogift #printgift
February 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
1m x 90cm / 3ft x ~3ft M42 Orion Nebula print in customers frame. If you want to buy a print, contact me for a size/price. Non UK I can arrange for a local printer to print and dispatch to you.
Let's talk
#astronomyart #framedpicture #art #astronomyprint #astrophotographers #astrogift #printgift
Let's talk
#astronomyart #framedpicture #art #astronomyprint #astrophotographers #astrogift #printgift
Another happy customer! A 90cm x 100cm print of the Orion Nebula! Framed version coming soon. I can have my deep sky, solar and Lunar images (planetary in the future) printed to order. Drop a comment if interested.
#astronomy #astrophotography #deepsky #orionnebula #printing
#astronomy #astrophotography #deepsky #orionnebula #printing
February 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Another happy customer! A 90cm x 100cm print of the Orion Nebula! Framed version coming soon. I can have my deep sky, solar and Lunar images (planetary in the future) printed to order. Drop a comment if interested.
#astronomy #astrophotography #deepsky #orionnebula #printing
#astronomy #astrophotography #deepsky #orionnebula #printing
What does the camera see?? Each object emits or reflects (or both) in various wavelengths. Filters help us "see" this light. The Orion Nebula here in Hydrogen, Oxygen and Sulphur shows a rich region of star forming material. Most of this glow is due to 4 very hot new stars called the Trapezium!
January 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
What does the camera see?? Each object emits or reflects (or both) in various wavelengths. Filters help us "see" this light. The Orion Nebula here in Hydrogen, Oxygen and Sulphur shows a rich region of star forming material. Most of this glow is due to 4 very hot new stars called the Trapezium!
M42 The Orion Nebula in 3 using different wavelengths mixed into different colour schemes - SHO (Sulphur, Hydrogen and Oxygen), RGB (Hydrogen as red, Sulphur as green and Oxygen as blue) and finally HOO (A more traditional slant of Hydrogen as red, Oxygen as green and Oxygen also as blue). #colours
January 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
M42 The Orion Nebula in 3 using different wavelengths mixed into different colour schemes - SHO (Sulphur, Hydrogen and Oxygen), RGB (Hydrogen as red, Sulphur as green and Oxygen as blue) and finally HOO (A more traditional slant of Hydrogen as red, Oxygen as green and Oxygen also as blue). #colours
The Flame & Horsehead Nebulae in Orion - the blue stars left and upper middle are two of his famous Belt. This was shot in 2021 using 4nm Dualband filters and reprocessed in 2024 using PixInsight into an SHO layout. Hope you will agree the colours look amazing. #astrophotography #astronomy #STEM
January 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The Flame & Horsehead Nebulae in Orion - the blue stars left and upper middle are two of his famous Belt. This was shot in 2021 using 4nm Dualband filters and reprocessed in 2024 using PixInsight into an SHO layout. Hope you will agree the colours look amazing. #astrophotography #astronomy #STEM
2.73 million light years away lies M33 the Triangulum Galaxy. It contains 40 bil stars & gigantic star forming gas clouds. They were spotted in the 1780s and catalogued. NGC 604 (big red blob bottom right) is 40 x the size of the Orion Nebula and apparently would outshine Venus if in our Galaxy.
January 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
2.73 million light years away lies M33 the Triangulum Galaxy. It contains 40 bil stars & gigantic star forming gas clouds. They were spotted in the 1780s and catalogued. NGC 604 (big red blob bottom right) is 40 x the size of the Orion Nebula and apparently would outshine Venus if in our Galaxy.
So a follow up to the AstroFest imaging competition.... apparently ALL images being considered for shortlisting were posted on the website which was marked The Shortlisted Entries. 🙈 Lot of surprise in the Astro community at this mistake. So fingers crossed I actually do get Shortlisted. 😄
January 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
So a follow up to the AstroFest imaging competition.... apparently ALL images being considered for shortlisting were posted on the website which was marked The Shortlisted Entries. 🙈 Lot of surprise in the Astro community at this mistake. So fingers crossed I actually do get Shortlisted. 😄