CCD Imaging Section

We invite all visitors to submit their own astronomical images and display them to a wider audience. We want to give a platform to those amateur astronomers out there who are imaging everything and anything of interest in our night sky.

Images from Barry Armstead's A.S.I.G.N Observatory

Barry Armstead maintains his own private observatory. Having built it himself, he's quite helpfully provided details of how he went about building it at the A.S.I.G.N Observatory website.

The fruits of his astrophotographic labours can be seen in the below images.

The Moon

NGC7293 - The Helix Nebula

NGC253 - The Sculptor Galaxy

M27 - The Dumbell Nebula

CCD Imaging Archive

Al Kelly's images of planetary nebula NGC 246 and M65

James Adamson's images: Solar Eclipse, Comet Pomanski, M42 and Saturn

Loyd Overcash images deep sky objects at DeerRidge observatory

Tim and Misty Schutt's Aurora photos

Timo-Pekka Metsala's images of Venus taken from Finland

Submit Your Images

If you want to submit your images please email them to either: lydia [at] astronomytoday [dot] com   or   marc [at] astronomytoday [dot] com.

Full credit will be attributed to each image and you will retain full copyright to any of your images displayed on Astronomy Today. We encourage you to let us know how you went about taking the image (what equipment you used, what seeing conditions were like, what you hope to image next etc.) It would be a great help if you could try to keep your images reasonably sized and proportioned for displaying on a web page, thanks!