Astrophotography.

This book provides some description and background information on my images of nebulae and galaxies that are on display at my March 2022 exhibition of astrophotography held at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol.

I include a description of how the images are captured from my garden in Wiltshire and how the resulting sub-frames are integrated and processed to reveal the beauty of these vast structures in the night sky.

The nebulae shown here are diffuse clouds of inter-stellar gases and dust within our Milky Way galaxy. Some of them are huge, spanning hundreds of light years across. Areas where the gases and dust become dense enough will collapse under their own gravitational attraction, forming stars which ionise the surrounding gases, causing them to glow at specific frequencies, and illuminate the dust clouds, making these nebula visible with a telescope and long exposure photography.

Other nebulae are the result of the end of a giant star's life when it runs out of fuel and explodes in a supernova event, throwing off material that expands outwards as a shock wave travelling at millions of kilometres per hour, compressing interstellar material as it goes, causing it to fluoresce.

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