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Tom O’DonoghueAfter two unsuccessful attempts previously to see all the stages of a Total Eclipse, the prospects to view the American Eclipse in August were excellent. The path of the shadow was to cross the entire country, giving plenty of locations to view it from.PlanningI had booked accommodation in Wyoming a year in advance, at Fireside campside in Jackson Hole. This area has very good weather forecasts at this time of year. There was also the bonus of the stunning local scenery from the Teton Mountain range, and Yellowstone park just a short drive up the road.     My...

In July, I did an interview with French Photography Agency Alter-View. They interview photographers who shoot unusual forms of photography, and those who go to great lengths to get the images they want.You can read the interview on their website here.

Following last Summer's trip to Les Granges in France, I finally got around to processing the first image I took on the imaging holiday.M22 is a Globular Cluster in Sagittarius approximately the same size as the Moon. At 10,000 light years from Earth, this is the brightest Globular visible from Mid and Northern Europe. Accompanying M22 is the much smaller globular cluster NGC 6642 in the top right corner.This image was taken in August 2017 with a TEC140 refractor, Atik 11000 CCD camera, and is 7 hours of LRGB images.

Over the Winter period, Olly was capturing data in the TEC140. I had suggested that we go for IC447 and NGC2170.Both objects contain Reflection and Dark nebulae, with NGC2170 also having some Emission nebula.I had captured both nebulae from Spain, and so myself and Olly decided to combine our RGB data, and mix it with the higher resolution TEC data.IC447 has 20hrs of data, while NGC2170 comes in with just over 27hrs of data. IC447 NGC2170 Both of these images are available to purchase from my Online Store. 

I had my first publication in the US Edition of Sky and Telescope magazine, where they published my 400-hour Orion Mosaic in the March 2017 edition This was followed up again in June's Edition, with a full-page devoted to a central crop of the Galactic Centre mosaic.