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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think it's a sat flare, each exposure was 10s, if this is the one?!

cropped in single image from the timelapse, a bright streak in the centre

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Timelapse of the evening's aurora as seen from Buckfast, Devon

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Aurora from South West England. Can’t really make much out visually

Night landscape photo. Completely dark foreground taking up the lower third. Clouds above and below frame ‘the plough’ asterism which is near the centre. Fairly subtle purple aurora appears below and to the right of the plough

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Little time-lapse from last night. I don't know what they were doing on that field in the distance, whatever it was, it was loud!

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Update to my Saturns. This goes: 2015, 2016, then annually from 2020 onwards.

9 telescopic closeups of Saturn presenting in a horizontal row, oldest captures on the left with poorer technique and equipment going through to run of clearer images. The ring tilt can be seen going from open to closed, and now opening in the other direction.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My weather station recorded no rain at all for 36 consecutive days. Finally got some rain today, 1.2mm

Graph of 'hourly rain', amount of rain on the X axis, date on the Y axis. A few large blue bars indicating rain on the left, the amount diminishes and goes to zero for a long time, a tiny blue bar on the right indicates the small amount of rain that fell on the date of this post

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Tonight's sky. I was lucky to spot noctilucent clouds, and even luckier still to catch a meteor in the frame with them!

Night landscape photograph. A brown field (dry grass) in the foreground. In the distance a woodland and gentle hills. The starry sky appears blue-ish from twilight and moonlight being picked up by the long exposure. Near the horizon, ethereal white Noctilucent clouds are apparent, they are wavy with intricate patterns. In the upper right, the streak of a meteor, and a nearby small cloud left a smudge due to its movement.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Thanks Fabio!! The camera is full-spectrum modified, so colour is finicky, not sure if I like it

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Last night's sky 🌌. Still a few weeks until darkness returns at this latitude. #Buckfastleigh #Devon #MilkyWay

Night landscape photograph. A road in the foreground goes away from the view and disappears behind hedgerow as it curves to the left. Large, and close trees frame the view on the left and right, rolling fields in the distance. The sky is clear, appearing light blue-ish from the twilight. The Milky way divides the frame diagonally stretching from the top left to the bottom right. The 'teapot' asterism of Sagittarius is centered, just above the horizon.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Tonight's view of Jupiter and Venus

Landscape photograph, lower third is foreground - a road, centered, is going away from the view, there is a junction to the right, road framed on both sides by hedges. In the middle distance is fields, and the far distance is high ground of Dartmoor national park. The mostly clear sky is blue from twilight, Jupiter and Venus in the center, the only celestial objects visible, Venus the brighter, above and to the right of Jupiter. A large cloud towers on the left, and there is thick band of cloud on and above the horizon.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

A fair few satellites in the sky these days eh?! 😵‍💫 This timelapse covers just less than 10 minutes of real time

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

A handy bit of libration gave a nice view of Mare Australe last night

Monochrome telescopic view of the lunar surface. Mare Australe is presented as 'up' in the image. It is near the limb. A large vally (Vallis Rheita) is in the foreground, a vertical line, curving gentle to the right. Mare Australe is a busy region of dark, oval patches.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The Lunar Alps at sunrise - captured last night

Monochrome telescopic closeup. North is to the top right, the terminator is in the upper left. The lunar alps form a prominent vertical row near the centre left of the image, jagged shadows casting onto the surface. Vallis Alpes emerges from the mountain range, horizontally, spanning all the way to Mare Frioris

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

A little, flapping, UFO of some kind from last night's imaging

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Another bit of last night's Moon. Those two large craters near the center are Aristoteles (larger of the two) and Eudoxus, and the nearby mountains are Montes Caucasus

Monochrome telescopic lunar closeup. North diagonally left and up. The terminator divides the frame going from top left, down to the middle bottom. Aristoteles and Eudoxus are near the middle of the image, both large, with terraced walls and center peaks. The Montes Caucasus range of mountains start near the craters and go down, there are shadows cast by the peaks, revealing details of the mountains' shapes. Elsewhere in the region there are large comparatively feature-less areas, Mare Serenitatis to the lower right, Lacus Mortis in the middle right, and Mare Frigoris spanning the middle top.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A bit of last night's Moon. The prominent crater near the left, above the terminator is Maurolycus, its peaks and floor nicely lit here.

Monochrome telescopic view of the lunar surface, presented roughly east 'up'. Moon is near first quarter, the terminator goes from the lower left to mid right, where the lunar south pole is. The surface is heavily cratered with many craters just catching their first light of the lunar day. Maurolycus appears as a large, complex crater, the floor is partially illuminated revealing smooth and rough areas, and craterlets. The peaks near the centre are bright, and in two groups, with the lower group noticeably elongated in a left to right configuration.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Extremely jealous of crew’s views of Mare Orientale. I did catch a glimpse of that region a while ago…just barely!!

Telescopic , closeup view of the limb of the moon. Dark valleys snake along, roughly parallel to the edge, Mare Orientale is a dark flat area on the horizon

Same as previous image but with labels added, Mare Orientale, Lacus Veris, and Lacus Autumni

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Guys, I’m 40 🤯. Here’s the sky from a few nights ago

Night scene: dark foreground of rolling hills and fields, town lights in a valley on the right in the middle distance. Sky is bright due to the moon, a long exposure has brought out blue in the sky, with Orion on the left, and the Pleiades on the right, they’re framed by some low cloud

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Last night's view. Winter constellations slipping away 🫡

Night scene. Dark foreground, town lights clustered in the middle distance and off to the right. Top two thirds of the image is a clear night sky, despite light pollution, a fairly dense covering of starts. Orion centre left, Taurus centre

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

22° lunar halo from earlier this evening

Night scene - streetlight is in the centre (it is not on/illuminated), with the lamp covering the moon, in the sky a large circle ‘halo’ circles the image, almost to the edges, it has subtle spectra, primarily just appearing as a bright white circle. Some clouds intrude into the halo in the top right, and Jupiter appears as a bright white star-like point of light at the 2 o’clock position.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Aurora confirmed, South West England!!

Misty/murky sky with bright green and pink, over houses of a small visage

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Had a look at Jupiter this evening

Telescopic view of Jupiter. Jupiter appearing as a large disk in the centre, presented at a tilted angle with north pointing in a top left direction. Jupiter takes up most of the frame, background completely black and featureless. Numerous belts and zones visible. Great red spot close to transiting.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Saturn and Titan last night in IR. The atmosphere was not cooperative 😂

Telescopic view, Saturn to the lower right, tilted at aprox degrees. Planet's equator appears as a bright band, bordered by a dark band in the north and south hemispheres. Rings very narrow, can just make out the gap between the ring and the planet on both sides. Titan is a small white blob in the top right,

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Got a view of the lunar eclipse!! 🙌

View through a ‘finder scope’, of the lunar eclipse, this is after totality, with the earth’s shadow carving out a portion of the moon (lower left third brightly illuminated, the rest appears dark). The moon has just risen above the horizon with trees and a TV aerial in the frame. Ghost image of the moon faintly appears above

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Nice bit of anticrepuscular ray action last night

View of the moon rising over a distant wooded area (shot on the standard ‘wide’ lens of an iPhone, so the moon is an absolutely tiny white disc). In the sky, a diffuse, dark line goes from the middle right to lower left.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Stayed up until the street lights went off last night

Monochrome night photograph, looking up at a street light that is off (which is just right of centre). Behind it, the Milky Way streaks vertically through the frame, dividing the sky roughly in half. There's a bit of mist and murk around but it's a very starry sky. The Andromeda galaxy is just to the right of the to of the lamp, appearing as a small smudge. There's a tree on the right, lit by another street light, one that unfortunately stays on all night.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Last night's star trails as seen from my back garden

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Nice Noctilucent cloud display going on at the moment, as seen here from South West England. #Buckfastleigh #Devon #NoctilucentClouds #NLC

Night scene, dark foreground with a few scattered streetlights and houses. Deep blue and yellow twilight colours, with white and delicate noctilucent clouds spanning the frame horizontally

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Last night's sky

$Night scene. Star filled sky. Perseus and the 'fish-hook' asterism on the right, appearing horizontal. Hugely overexposed crescent moon just left of center, shining brightly with diffraction spikes and internal reflections. A road in the foreground curves off rightward into the distance framed by hedgerow on either side. The road leads to a small group of trees in the distance.$

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Beginning to lose the winter constellations to twilight now Shot 13/4/25 #Buckfastleigh #Devon

Night landscape photograph. Sky appearing blue due to twilight and moon light in a long exposure. Cloudless sky, with numerous stars, Orion left, Taurus Center, and the Pleiades to the right. Jupiter a bright white star-like object above Taurus. Rural landscape of fields, lit by a low, bright moon, left of the image in shadow, right illuminated. Small town in the center shines out with many street and house lights. There's a layer of clouds just above the horizon.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Non-AI image I took 3 years ago at Durdle Door, Dorset

Monochrome night landscape, taken from ground level. Large stone arch (Durdle Door) sits to the right of centre, framed by the Milky Way above, and a calm sea below. The shoreline curves away and to the left of the viewpoint meeting a sandy beach. The Milky Way appears as a bright area going from top left toward the arch, within the brightness there are dark lanes and details from interstellar dust.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Gassendi Crater as seen last night 🔭 #Astrophotography #Moon

$Monochrome telescopic closeup of the lunar surface, presented East ‘up’. Gassendi is framed by relatively smooth areas either side, Mare Humorum to the left and Letronne Crater and Oceanus Procellarum to the right. Gessendi appears as a large crater with low walls, intricately patterned floor, with criss crossing fractures ‘Rimae Gassendi’, and multiple central peaks. Gassendi is said to look like a diamond ring, with Gassendi A being the diamond, seen here to the right of Gassendi.$

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The 'Moon Maiden' aka Promontorium Heraclides April 8th 2025

Monochrome telescopic closeup of the lunar surface, presented east ‘up’. Mare Imbrium fills the top right of the image, a vast smooth area with a sprinkling of small craters here and there. Below that, Sinus Iridum, the ‘bay of rainbows’ is in the terminator area between night and day appearing as a large semicircle (the incomplete remnants of a crater) with a bumpy rim. Promontorium Heraclides is the western edge of the bay, a pointed cape jutting into Mare Imbrium, it may (with some imagination) resemble a woman with flowing hair looking left.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Electra (one of the bright stars in the Pleiades) getting occulted the other night. Realtime-ish playback

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Cropping in hard, to try and see what can be ID-ed, there's some fun stuff!

Crop from the above image. Image quality getting a bit rough! Hoping to draw attention to craters right on the edge, there are several large, prominent craters with central peaks casting long shadows. There appear to be many hills/mountains around the craters with detail highlighted by the low light.

Cropping in hard, to try and see what's can be ID-ed, there's some fun stuff!

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