CCD Imaging Section

We invite all visitors to submit their own astronomical images (see below for details) 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.

Andrew Young's Occultation Images

Andy has had an interest in astronomy since the lunar eclipse visible from the UK in 1999. He clearly retains an interest in the Moon, as his images below illustrate! He has only just acquired a camera so all his images are experimental but, now, having the equipment he can see himself doing more. However, Andy lives in town so his images are limited to what is possible given the presence of street lights.

Both images were taken on Monday 8th December from his bathroom window, overlooking Teign estuary, Teignmouth, Devon in the southwest of the UK. Andy used a Panasonic Lumix DSLR DMC-FZ30 camera, tripod and a variety of shutter timings.

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

Images taken by Barry Armstead from the observatory he built himself

Submit Your Images

If you want to submit your images please email them to: 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!