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The Horsehead and Flame Nebula

 6th January 2026 6th January 2026
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Below are 2 images of the Horsehead Nebula and Flame Nebula taken by member George Buckberry. The 1st on the 31st Dec 2025 having only 17mins and 45 seconds of total exposure and the 2nd on the 1st Jan 2026 having 1 hour and 15mins total exposure; both taken using a Dwarf3 smart scope.  The Horsehead Nebula is located in the centre of the images and the Flame nebula is located at the top middle of the images.

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The Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33, and its companion, the  Flame Nebula, sit near the star Alnitak in Orion's Belt. 

The Horsehead Nebula is a small dark nebula located about 1,375 light-years from Earth and is located just south of Alnitak,  the easternmost star of Orion's Belt and is part of the much larger Orion molecular cloud complex within the Orion B cloud. It is one of the most identifiable nebulae because of its resemblance to a horse's head.

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The Flame Nebula, designated as NGC 2024 and Sh2-277, is an emission nebula also in the constellation Orion.  It is about 1350 light-years away.  The Flame Nebula also lies within the Orion B cloud of the larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.

The bright star Alnitak the easternmost star in Orion's Belt, appears very close to the Flame Nebula in the sky. But the star and nebula are not physically associated with one another. Alnitak lies 1260 light-years from Earth.

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The Sun & Moon – 31st Dec 2025

 3rd January 2026 3rd January 2026
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The Sun & a Waxing Gibbous Moon (89.7% illuminated and 11.64 days old) taken on the last day of the year 2025. 

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The Sun by Honor Wheeler taken from Dartford using a Dwarf3 smartscope. 50 stacked images and processed in Snapseed.

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The Sun taken by George Buckberry from Hextable using a Dwarf3 smart scope.

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The Moon taken by Honor Wheeler from Dartford using a Dwarf 3 smartscope.  50 stacked images and processed in Snapseed.

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The Moon taken by Neil Webster from St Mary's Platt. 

The image is made up of 6 frames: each 90s x 33fps (20% selected by AS).  Neil used a AA 115 APO, EQ6 R, ZWO ASI290MM and R-IR Filter to capture the images and then processed them using Firecapture, AutoStakkert, Photoshop and Microsoft ICE.

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The Orion Nebula

 3rd January 2026 3rd January 2026
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The Orion Nebula taken by George Buckberry on the 1st Jan 2026 using a Dwarf3 smart scope.  This is a brilliant image as it was acquired just after a total of 15 mins of exposure.  Just shows what smart scopes can do!

''The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion's belt in the constellation of Orion.  It is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky with an apparent magnitude of 4.0. It is 1,344 ± 20 light-years (412.1 ± 6.1 pc) away and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. M42 is estimated to be 25 light-years across (so its apparent size from Earth is approximately 1 degree). It has a mass of about 2,000 times that of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.'' Ref:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula

 

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The Rosette Nebula

 3rd January 2026 3rd January 2026
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A stunning image of the Rosette Nebula taken by Kevin Smith on the 27th Dec 2025 using a Dwarf3 smartscope.  The image is a total of 5 hours and 57 mins of exposure.

The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is a huge star-forming region spanning 100 lightyears across and located 5,000 lightyears away.

It can be seen in the Monoceros constellation in the winter months and is located between stars Betelgeuse in Orion and Procyon in Canis Minor.  Draw a line between Betelgeuse and Procyon, look just south of that line, about halfway along, and you will find it.

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The last Supermoon of 2025

 2nd January 2026 2nd January 2026
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A fabulous selection of Supermoon images taken on the 4th/5th December 2025.  The year 2025 featured a rare series of three consecutive supermoons: the October 7th Harvest/Hunter Moon, the November 5th Beaver Moon, and the December 4th Cold Moon, where the Moon appears larger and brighter than usual. These supermoons occur when a full moon coincides with the Moon being at or near its closest point to Earth in its orbit.

For more information about the term 'Supermoon' and where Full Moon names originate; check out the following sites/pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon

https://www.almanac.com/full-moon-names

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/full-moon-names.html

 

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George used a Dwarf3 smartscope to take this image.

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The Moon by Diane Clarke taken using a Seestar 50 smartscope.

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The Moon taken by Neil Webster.  The image is made up of 8 frames. Each 90s x 32fps.  The image was taken using a AA115 APO, EQ6 R, ZWO ASI290MM, and R/IR Filter. It was processed using Firecapture, AutoStakkert, Photoshop, and Microsoft ICE. Taken from St Marys Platt, Kent, UK.

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Deep Sky images by George Buckberry

 2nd January 2026 2nd January 2026
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A super selection of deep sky images taken by George Buckerry on the 4th and 31st Dec 2025 using a Dwarf3 smart scope.

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John Archer’s images – 21st Nov to the 28th Nov 2025

 23rd December 2025 23rd December 2025
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A superb collection of images taken by member John Archer from the 21st to the 28th Nov 2025 using a Dwarf3 smartscope.

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The Moon on the 28th Nov 2025

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Latest images 11th to 20th December 2025

 21st December 2025 21st December 2025
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A fabulous selection of images taken by members Kevin Smith, Dan Stevens and George Buckberry from the 11th to the 20th December 2025.

Kevin Smith using a Dwarf 3 smartscope

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                                                                            The Horsehead Nebula. A total of 4 hours 15mins exposure time.

 

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Dan Stevens using a Seestar smart scope

   

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George Buckberry using a Dwarf3 smartscope

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 The Sun with a single sunspot........

 

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17th/18th November 2025 images by George Buckberry

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The latest images from member George Buckberry. Taken using a Dwarf3 smart scope.

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