A high moon is a good moon. My view on 5 April in exceptionally clear and steady skies. This is a 19 panel mosaic taken using my 120mm refractor. Yes, that's right, 19 panels. I REALLY need to get myself a camera with a bigger sensor!

A colourful view of Andromeda from my backyard in the days before LED street lights were installed nearby. Image taken with a Rokinon 135 lens on an unmodified Canon 2000D/Rebel T7.

Point your camera at Orion for long enough and all sorts of wonderful things happen. My image from January 2023 using an unmodified Canon 2000d/Rebel T7 and a Rokinon 135 lens.

Venus is starting to make an appearance in the evening sky. It seems an age since I last had a good view. Here are some images from late 2021 showing Venus as it approached Earth whilst also moving toward inferior conjunction (neat trick, that). Imaged on 15 November, 2 December and 9 December.

For those of us without 'GoTo' kit, it's very much a case of 'go left and down a bit from Deneb and stop when you get to the garnet star' That was pretty much how I found the Elephant's Trunk Nebula during an imaging session in June. Canon 2000D +a Rokinon 135 lens and an L-eNhance filter. 2 hours.

Monday presented the first chance to see anything, literally anything at all for the first time in two weeks. Unfortunately I had commitments elsewhere so here is my take on what seems to be this weeks favourite, the crater Clavius. Imaged on 3 November 2022.

Stunning scenery from my travels last month near Partrishow, Powys. It was the first 'dark sky' location I had travelled to, but sadly the night skies stayed cloudy until our final night the 10th of October when we were treated to the superb aurora.

Like a cosmic Narwhal, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as it appeared low in the south west on a rare clear evening in central England. I was not able to see it with the naked eye or binoculars in the dusk, but a 6 sec exposure revealed it all.

Four years in the making, we have Saturn and it's amazing disappearing rings. Images taken at opposition from 2020 to 2024.

Not a recent image, obviously, but here in the UK we are suffering from one of those spells of cloudy weather that lasts from January to December, so here is my image from August 2022.

Jupiter and a cluster of Galilean satellites. My image from October 27, 2023. From l-r Europa, Jupiter with Io (upper) and Ganymede (lower)

A strange night. The forecast was for clear skies and yet there seemed to be some sort of light haze or mist around, just as if the moon was out. I suppose Autumn is on the way. Anyhow, I managed 90 minutes on Andromeda and 45 minutes on a new target for me, the Triangulum galaxy.

It's Saturn, Jim, but not as we know it. My first attempt at the 2024 appearance through breezy, moisture laden skies on 24 August. There will be better opportunities, but for now, this will have to do. There is object to the upper right of Saturn which, on checking Stellarium, turns out to be Titan

Two hours on Andromeda. This image was taken in September 2023. I was pleased to have captured some details in the dust lanes and picked up some of the purple/blue on the outer reaches. I hope to get some more data in a month or so from a dark sky site so this is work in progress

Just over 5.5 hours on the Sadr region taken over the few available clear nights in 2023 and 2024. I was quite pleased with the final colour image, and was surprised with the red channel which shows what was REALLY going on. Imaged with a Canon 2000d/T7 and a Samyang 135.