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Photons that travelled
a thousand years
to reach this page.
A personal archive of deep-sky, planetary, and lunar imaging. Built and stacked from the back garden, processed late at night.
// featured
26 June 2026
Imaging NGC 6543, the Cat’s Eye Nebula — When Dawn Turns Your Frames White
A summer build log on the Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543): 46 OIII subs with a Sky-Watcher 200PDS, and the per-frame data showing how dawn near the solstice drove the sky from 280 ADU to a pure-white 65,535 by 04:07.
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10 June 2026
The summer drought: why high-latitude DSO imaging stops for three months
At 53.5° N the sky never goes truly dark from mid-May to early August. A look at why, with the geometry, the latitude curve, and the strategies that survive the drought.
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// in loving memory
Bruno · 2013 – 2026 — the husky who gave astrohusky its name.
My companion under every cold, clear sky. Read his story →