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Three Castle head is one of my favourite locations in Ireland to shoot from. With the Lake, the Castle, the Cliffs and the Ocean, there is stunning beauty in all directions. Each time I have been there I had the place to myself, and its in a very dark location.This was going to be another Milky Way Arc shot with the 50mm lens to get detail in the sky. I took 3 rows of panels with 9 frames per row for the sky, An hour after darkness ended, I stayed in the same position to take 2 rows of 9...

This was my first attempt at taking a full Milky Way Arc with a 50mm lens. I had been to this spot before, but I felt I could improve on the previous image. I had to plan how many rows and panels would be needed to capture the Sky all the way from due South to due North. At Lough Inagh there is not one light visible in 360 degrees, which made for an excellent location to shoot from. During the 90min shoot, a few cars and a truck passed through the frames so I had to re-shoot a few...

On the Aran Island of Inis Oirr, the Plassy ship wreck has been beached for over 60 years on the South side of the Island. I was scouting locations for a Milky Way Arc, and the ship wreck seemed to line up with a full 180 degree sky during a trip in March. When I got there from the Doolin boat a few weeks later, I found that it didn't fully fill the frame to the East, and that a more close up approach was needed. With the light house spreading some light pollution from a few Kilometers away, I...

This has been a productive year where I managed to get multiple nights out on the West coast shooting some iconic foregrounds. In January I went back to Three Castle Head Cork to try and get Cygnus over the Castle Towers, with the Lake in the foreground. This is 24 minutes of Sky with added Hydrogen Alpha data of 40 minutes, blended with a four minute foreground shot for the Lake and Castle Towers. Cygnus is the Latin name for the Swan, so with the Lake in the foreground, the title seems appropriate.

Initially postponed due to Storm Eowyn, the festival is back on for the 8th of Feb. I'll be exhibiting my latest from 2024, in framed format with prints available. 2024 was a great year with a Total Solar Eclipse, 2 Aurora outbursts, and some Wild Atlantic Way Coastal nightscapes to show too. Hopefully see you there. More details are here in the website: https://www.galwayastronomyclub.ie/astrofest-2025/