Thread by @PeterLewis55, As per last year, going to tweet some of my fav pix. [...]

As per last year, going to tweet some of my fav pix. Due to 2020 lockdown, been at home mostly so have indulged in #Astrophotography Follow this thread. I'll add new posts daily & pin it to my profile. Starting with my personal fav, Comet Neowise over the London skyline in July.

On April 10th, the #InternationalSpaceStation transited the Sun. My home in London was directly under the epicentre of the flight path. The transit lasted 1.8 secs. From the video in white light I extracted 10 evenly distributed frames which were stacked and processed with colour

Happy Xmas Day to my followers!! I was given a 'planetary' camera for my 2020 birthday. Got to produce images of all our solar system neighbours.

If I had ridden on the @NoradSanta sleigh

I could have included Earth

but our friendly Moon

took its place

Happy Xmas Day to my followers!! I was given a 'planetary' camera for my 2020 birthday. Got to produce images of all our solar system neighbours. If I had ridden on the @NoradSanta sleigh I could have included Earth but our friendly Moon took its place

Happy Boxing Day! A long time since mid summer. I didn't need a telescope or flashy camera for this one. Nor sleep. I'd never seen rare noctilucent clouds before. Very unusual to make it so far south. Especially this bright. Mobile phone photo shot in London in July.

Another #Astrophotography tweet. Of course, the #GreatConjunction made all the news this month (more to come later) but in 2020 there were others especially Venus as the 8th sister of the Pleiades, Moon/Venus/Beehive cluster, Neptune/Venus and Mars flirting with the Moon all year

Watching meteor showers required clear nights, patience, warm clothes, a flask of tea & morning lie-ins. I needed all these for the Geminids, Lyrids & Perseids - 3 of the best. The first pic was earlier this month. One flew into the moonlight in the 3rd photo. #Astrophotography

A reassuring sight in 2020 was seeing a full moon rise every c28 days. Snapped a few this year, including an orange/Strawberry Supermoon in penumbral eclipse & Jupiter photobombing a church cross silhouette. Next one tonight! #Astrophotography @StormHour @ThePhotoHour

My top floor window became a lockdown mini observatory. Two of my favourite pics from 2020. First is Mars, Saturn and Jupiter, pre dawn east in April. Second is Mercury and Venus with a thin crescent moon, after sunset, west in May. @StormHour @ThePhotoHour #Astrophotography

I wish a happier #NewYear to my friends & followers. Hopefully much better than this one

& end this thread with the Jupiter & Saturn #GreatConjunction2020 I loved this opinion, one of many for the image I produced. https://twitter.com/VirtualAstro/status/1340729247145594880?s=19 Thanks for looking at my astro photos.