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Deep Sky
Wide-Field & Artistic
Solar System
Eclipses and Transits
Moon
Comets
Instruments
Star Parties & Outreach
Deep Sky
Wishing Well Cluster RGB With Ha
Trifid Nebula
Lagoon (M8) and Trifid (M20) Nebula
Trifid Nebula
The Pup
Tarantula Nebula
Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070)
Tarantula Nebula BiColour
Tarantula Nebula
Statue of Liberty Nebula
Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, M83 or NGC 5236.
Sculptor Galaxy
Running-Chicken-Nebula-in-HOOsm
Running Chicken Nebula IC 2944
IC 2944 - Running Chicken Nebula
Rosette Nebula
Pearl Cluster
Orion Nebula M42
Orion-2021-10-28_HDR-HiRes
Omega Centauri
Omega Centauri
Omega Centuari
Omega Centauri (NGC 5139)
The Great Wall of Ara - NGC 6188 (RGB Colour)
NGC 4945
NGC 3576/3603 - The Statue of Liberty Nebula.
NGC1532
NGC7293 Helix Nebula
NGC 5128 Centauris A
NGC 253 Sculptor Galaxy
47 Tucanae (NGC 104)
Maia in the Pleiades cluster
Lobster Nebula NGC 6357
Rosette Nebula
Horsehead and Flame Nebula
Lagoon Nebula
Lagoon Trifid region
Lagoon Nebula M8
Eta Carina Nebula
IC 2599
IC 434 Horsehead Nebula
Flame and Horsehead Nebula
Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) and NGC2023.
Helix Nebula
Helix Nebula NGC 7293
Great Orion Nebula
Flame Nebula
Eta Carinae Nebula (NGC 3372)
Eta Carinae
Eta Carinae Nebula
Eta Carinae Nebula
NGC6726 and HH100 in Corona Australis.
CondorGalaxyGroup
M42
Centaurus A Extreme Deep Field - 120 hours
Centaurus A NGC 5128
The Circumstellar Disc of B Pictoris
Antlia Galaxy Cluster (Abell S0636) - Extreme Deep Field - 152 Hours.
Tarantula and LMC
Southern Pinwheel
Homunculus Nebula with ejecta
M104 - The Sombrero
M83 - The Southern Pinwheel
Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070)

Wide-Field & Artistic
Centaurus to Canis Major.
Whitiangatrailg
Southern Cross
Moon Halo
Star-trails
Sky above Satellite Station Road.
Guiding Light
Moon set at Muriwai
Milky Way Galaxy
Milky Way September 2011, Shaun Fletcher.
Milky Way over the windswept bush of Maori Bay
Milky Way
Milky Way Centre Region.
Taken at Coatesville by Jonathan Green on 14th of September 2012 with a Canon 60Da through a 90mm Tamron Macro lens at F/4 piggybacked on a Meade LX90. 42x20 sec exposures stacked and de-rotated in Deep Sky Stacker, 8 20 sec Dark frames subtracted, and final processing done in photoshop.
Belt of Venus or Venus's Girdle
Stars of Centaurus.
Milky Way Miner.
8mm lens fisheye view

Solar System
Solar System Collage
Saturn
Saturn 2011, Shaun Fletcher
Jupiter, Venus & Mercury
The Sun
The 4 Planets
2009-08-22-Moon-Mercury conjunction
Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury and Aldebaran
Moon and Venus
Mars
Jupiter With Ganymede shadow Nov 7 2010
Jupiter October 2010, Glenfield
Jupiter
Jupiter
Moon and Jupiter conjunction
Jupiter-on 2nd of June, 2009
Jupiter - An International Picture
Saturn
Moon, Mars and Venus
Conjunction of the crescent Moon, Venus and Jupiter.
Conjunction of Venus, Jupiter and the crescent moon.
Picture saved with settings embedded.
Saturn
Jupiter showing its weather patterns
Solar Prominence (Protuberance on the Sun).
The Sun
The Sun
Mars
Mars

Eclipses and Transits
Transit of Venus Viewing at Stardome
Transit of Venus. Second Contact.
Transit of Venus
Transit of Mercury 2019
International Space Station (ISS) Transit of Sun
Solar Eclipse in La Higuera
Solar Eclipse November 2012
Auckland maximum Solar Eclipse Nov 2012
First contact Solar Eclipse November 2012
Transit of Venus 2012
Transit of Venus 2012 via projection.
Partial lunar eclipse.
Solar Eclipse 2017 - Prominences
Partial Solar Eclipse 14th Nov 1012 from Torbay, Auckland
Total Lunar Eclipse 2015
The last view of Venus 2012
Transit of Venus. Projection.
Diamond Ring
Elcipse 2017

Moon
Moon on 8 March 2009
Moon
Moon: Clavius and surrounding Craters.
Moon
Waxing Gibbous Moon.
Mare Nubium Region
Mare Crisium
Maginus Crater
Full Moon in Colour
Moon First Quarter
Moon: First Quarter Craters.
Apennine Mountains.
Crater Copernicus and Crater Eratosthenes
Apennine mountains.
Crater Close Up

Comets
Comet Lulin February 23/24 2009
Comet Lulin, 23/24 February 2009
Comet Lulin February 6th
Comet Panstarrs
Comet Lovejoy
Comet Lovejoy
Comet Panstarrs
Comet Lovejoy
Comet Lemmon
Comet Lemmon
Comet-2021-A1-Leonard
Comet Lemmon

Instruments
Stellarvue 90mm Raptor.
Stellarvue 102 mm Access F7 ED Refractor
Self-portrait Celestron 8'' EdgeHD in use.
Giant Binos
110mm Williams Optics Refractor
SkyWatcher 120mm Black Diamond ED refractor on HEQ5 Pro Go To mount.
Ioptron Internal Cabling
Celestron Evolution 9.25 inch
Stellarvue 102mm Imaging Rig
Meade 10" Imaging Rig
5 inch homemade Rich Field refractor.
Zeiss telescope
8” Reflector Binoscope built by Dave Moorhouse
16” Reflector Binoscope built by Dave Moorhouse
6” Reflector Telescope
16” Reflector Telescope with Dobson Mount (Home built).
Paramount ME Robotic Telescope Mount
Meade ETX 125 AT Maksutov-Cassegrain
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
4” Refractor Telescope with CG5 mount.
Takahashi FS102 Refractor Telescope
Meade Starfinder Newtonian Reflector Telescope
8” Reflector Telescope with Starlight Focuser.
8" EdgeHD
127 mm Triplet ED Refractor.
SkyWatcher Pro 100mm ED F9 Refractor.

Star Parties & Outreach
Waharau 2018 Group Photo
Viaduct
Dark Sky Night at Arataki
AAS Star Party
Smales Farm outreach event
Silo Park Outreach event.
Waharau Dark Sky Weekend.
Rocketry Association's National Launch Day Outreach.
Rocketry Association's National Launch Day telescope viewing.
Galalean Nights Parnell 2009.
AAS Orion Group in Parnell.
AAS Orion Group in Parnell.
Sky watchers -I-
Sky watchers -III-
Sky watchers -II-
Star Party Ballet
Melanie and C5
Oreste Pinto
Silo Park outreach event.
Smales Farm outreach event.
Speech to Ranfurly-Eden ladies Probus Club
Kumeu Presentation and Telescope Basics
Group photo at Waharau  November 2020
Dark sky weekend at Waharau Regional Park.
Digital Nationz 2014
ASTRONZ outdoor presentation.
Botanic Gardens Outreach.
2018 Waharau Dark Sky Weekend.
Waharau Dark Sky Weekend 2018.
Dark Sky Observing Night at Wainui Group Photo
Waharau 2017
Night time at Waharau.

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