Nick W
@nick-e4astro.bsky.social
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Happy to be under the night sky🪐 or behind a camera 📷 (often at the same time). Umbraphile ☀️🌑🌍😎. Partial to a wee dram of malt whisky 🥃. Servant to 🐈‍⬛ (@Nick_E4Astro on that ‘other’ platform)
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With proper darkness gradually returning I turned my #StellaMira 90EDT telescope towards the Seahorse dark nebula (Barnard 150) in Cepheus this week.
Quite pleased given limited imaging time & NE London’s Bortle 7/8 light pollution.
#astrophotography
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Just watched- great stuff.
Must get back to Penmachno… Both of these photos are single exposure, same camera settings etc taken 24 hours apart- not hard to tell which was taken there & back home in London.
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Blink and you’ll miss it!
I captured a solar transit by the International Space Station today.

Pic is composite of 19 frames, the transit lasted less than a second.
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Definitely getting into #GalaxySeason… a selection of some lovely sights in the spring skies, imaged from NE London early April with my 6” StellaLyra RC scope.
M63 Sunflower Galaxy
M106 spiral galaxy
M94 Croc Eye Galaxy
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The Jellyfish Nebula in Gemini, imaged from my back garden in NE London. 🪼
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Managed some #astrophotography last night… first visit this season to the Rosette Nebula in Monoceros
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First #Astrophotography honours for 2025 go to the always impressive Horsehead & Flame Nebulae in #Orion & the California Nebula in Perseus

Taken from Chingford NE London 2 Jan with StellaMira 90 EDT & ZWO 533MC camera.
IC434 Horsehead Nebula in Orion NGC1499 California Nebula
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I love the result a @solarcan.bsky.social gives… a 31.6 million second (give or take a few!) exposure of the sun’s path in 2024.
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Clear nights seem to be a rarity at the moment, so when the clouds finally departed the other night the telescope was ready to go… I captured images of the Double Cluster & California Nebula in Perseus, & the Flaming Star nebula in Auriga.
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Double Cluster in Perseus California Nebula in Perseus Flaming Star Nebula in Auriga
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A couple more images taken from the back garden over the last couple of clear nights…
M45 Pleiades star cluster & M33 Triangulum Galaxy
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M45 Pleiades star cluster M33 Triangulum Galaxy
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So my first post here is my most recent #astrophotography image… the lovely Iris Nebula in Cepheus.

Taken 23 October from my back garden in NE London.