Wicklow Skies

Wicklow Skies Astrophotography and landscape photography as a hobby.

The Southern Highlands. Battered but beautifully rugged. Countless times I have imaged this and I keep coming back to it...
03/09/2026

The Southern Highlands. Battered but beautifully rugged. Countless times I have imaged this and I keep coming back to it. C11 585 and 686nm. Worth zooming in to explore some of those craters.

"Mare Serenatis" or he "Sea of Serenity" sounds like somewhere you'd book a wellness retreat. In reality it's an enormou...
02/09/2026

"Mare Serenatis" or he "Sea of Serenity" sounds like somewhere you'd book a wellness retreat. In reality it's an enormous impact crater filled with ancient lava and surrounded by billions of years of cosmic wear and tear. The Moon does love a bit of false advertising hehe. C11 XLT, 585mc Pro and 685nm filter.

Boom! I try not to overdo it on processing most of the time but I think Copernicus in daylight warrants it just to show ...
01/09/2026

Boom! I try not to overdo it on processing most of the time but I think Copernicus in daylight warrants it just to show that blast radius in it's full splendour. C11 XLT, 585mc Pro, 685nm Filter.

Moon from Wednesday, which was imaged through lots of haze low on the horizon which scattered the light, causing a visua...
28/08/2026

Moon from Wednesday, which was imaged through lots of haze low on the horizon which scattered the light, causing a visually stunning orange colour. It's not good for capturing fine detail but the colour and visual it gives is a decent tradeoff.

A closeup view of the Pleiades, aka The Seven Sisters or M45. These brilliant blue stars are among the youngest in our s...
27/08/2026

A closeup view of the Pleiades, aka The Seven Sisters or M45. These brilliant blue stars are among the youngest in our stellar neighbourhood, only around 100 million years old.

The faint, smoky glow surrounding them isn’t gas from the stars themselves, it’s interstellar dust reflecting their intense blue light. This reflection nebula gives the cluster its ethereal beauty, revealing how light interacts with cosmic dust across space.

Equipment used for this was my Askar FRA 300, 585mc Pro camera cooled to -10c, Optolong L-Pro filter. Guided with Evoguide and 174mm Mini.

24/08/2026

Some pretty airglow captured at the Northern Milky Way the other night.

Delighted to bag another 'Top Pick' on Astrobin for my Mars image which was a series of images taken on the lead up to, ...
23/08/2026

Delighted to bag another 'Top Pick' on Astrobin for my Mars image which was a series of images taken on the lead up to, during and after its opposition. Even to get a Top Pick nomination is a big honour so to get an actual Top Pick is a big deal for me personally as the standard on Astrobin is very high.

The impact crater left behind by the discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 that crashed into the Moon on August 5th. Left is pre imp...
20/08/2026

The impact crater left behind by the discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 that crashed into the Moon on August 5th. Left is pre impact and right is post impact. No Earth based telescope I know of captured the impact but orbital imaging shows it here. A new human influenced impact leaves it's print on a landscape as old as time.

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