It's soaking wet out there, and clouds have now rolled in. Looks like that's it for tonight. After the comet I managed this shot around The Bubble and Lobster Claw Nebulae tonight.

The view of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) tonight crossing the Milky Way stars in Aquila.

I've been trying out some new processing techniques on recent data. Still got quite a long way to go to get it right, but it's starting to look very promising with this first attempt.

Saturn just before it disappeared behind The Moon this morning.
It was exquisite to watch through my Dobsonian, while the camera was catching images. So much data to work on now. I may be a while.

What an epic evening. 🤩

Open star cluster Messier 35 and The Jellyfish Nebula in Gemini.
Composite image created to bring out the faint nebula.

This one came out quite well through the thin cloud before The Moon got to Venus.
Shows just how dark The Moon is in comparison to Venus.

Saturn is at opposition this Sunday, when it will be at its biggest and brightest for the year.

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A better image of Saturn, taken this morning.

I finally got a stacked image of Venus!
It's not that good, as clouds interfered, and there was no time to use the Barlow lens or adjust the settings as I wanted. But I'm very pleased that at least I got one today when Venus was at inferior conjunction.

It's well worth visiting Peterborough Cathedral this summer.
Especially if you like Star Wars.

I had a tweak of the microscope settings and you can clearly make out the long flagellum these algae called Euglena use for motility. That's kept me out of mischief this weekend.

I had an all-nighter last night, finishing off with Saturn.

It's been five years since we moved into our house. I think we've been able to improve the look and usability of the garden in that time.

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Another couple of this handsome fella.

We had to go for a walk in todays lovely sunshine to Stanwick Lakes to see if we could catch sight of the most photographed bird in Northamptonshire. We were not disappointed.
He put on a great show for us.

Another cracker from the JWST.
NGC346 in The Small Magellanic Cloud.
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First it went foggy, then it (almost) cleared.
But I just managed to catch these images of Jupiter and Mars tonight, before they disappeared behind the cloud.
Celestron C11 and ASI178MC camera, with ADC.