Navigation	Welcome to my little Astrophoto website. I’m limited in the amount of disk space my ISP provides so the images are compressed and I’ve only got room for a small number of them. Photos here are mainly taken with either a Starlight Xpress MX716 (older shots) or the newer SXV-H9 CCD camera. Older shots were taken using a 12 inch Meade LX200 “classic” telescope while later ones are taken with a Takahashi Sky 90 or TEC140 Refractor. There are a number of wider shots taken with a Canon 300D SLR Processing was carried out using MaximDL and a bit of Photoshop for final tweaking.
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Latest Update 2007-12-04	Comet p/17 Holmes
		On 2007 October 24^th, this periodic comet (period just under 7 years) suddenly flared from around magnitude 17 to easy naked eye visibility, peaking at around magnitude 2.5. Needless to say, the weather was cloudy and wet for some days but I managed to get a fair number of observations in the following few weeks. I’ve set up a Comet Holmes gallery here as part of the Solar System Gallery.