Photographs of the sky

Total Lunar Eclipse	Meteors	Total Solar Eclipse

Aurora Borealis 2000	The Moon and Planets	Stars and constellations

Sunspots	The daytime sky	The Moon

Aurora Borealis 2003	Comet Hale-Bopp	The Milky Way Galaxy

Other astronomy and sky photographs

SOLSTICE MOON: Photos of the perigree full moon which rose over the Irish Sea at the time of Summer Solstice, June 22nd, 2005.
NORTHERN LIGHTS: A display of the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) over Ireland on January 21st, 2005, plus other images on the same night.
COMET MACHHOLZ: An image of the naked eye comet, C/2004 Q2 Machholz, pictured with a Nikon D70 through a Celestron NexStar 11 GPS telescope while the comet was in the constellation Perseus. Jan 2005.
SATURN: My first efforts to image Saturn and its rings using a Philips ToUCam Pro II and a Celestron NexStar 11 GPS telescope. Amateur astronomers can now achieve impressive results using relatively basic imaging equipment.
AURORA BOREALIS 2004: A mild Northern Lights display occurred over Ireland on November 9th, 2004, which took the form of a green glow on the northern horizon. Here are some photos of that display set in the context of famous historical sites.
JUPITER: revolutionary – but cheap – methods now allow amateur astronomers, using modest equipment, to take reasonably good photos of the planets. Here are my first efforts to capture Jupiter using a webcam and a camcorder.
MOON AND FIRESKY: A photo of an almost full Moon framed by blazing fiery red clouds at around sunset.

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