What was it like…just beautiful :-)
 
Images were taken with a Canon G7x Mk11 camera on manual focus, with 0.6-second exposure and ISO 200.

Saturn is now half way up the eastern sky in the evening here in the southern hemisphere, just perfect for viewing in any size telescope.

Saturn’s magnificent rings are now closing up and tilting away from us as viewed from Earth.

​Images were taken at my Stardust Observatory with a Meade 10inch LX200 telescope and ZWO ASI 120 mc planetary camera with 3x Barlow lens attached, AVI movies captured and processed in RegiStax6 and PS.

Jupiter is now rising is the eastern sky around 10pm and looks just awesome in any size telescope, with opposition on the 3rd November we have many months to enjoy this mighty planet.

My image shows Jupiter with its GRS and moon Io transiting the planet with its shadow crossing the surface, I have done up two images taken just 3 minutes apart, if you cross your eyes gently hopefully you can see the planet and moon look 3D…I hope you can see it :-) 
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 Images were taken at my Stardust Observatory with a Meade 10inch LX200 telescope and ZWO ASI 120 mc planetary camera with 3x Barlow lens attached, AVI movies captured and processed in RegiStax6 and PS.

The Sun looked very nice late yesterday afternoon with quite a lot of dark filaments on the surface. There were only a couple of small prominences around the limb.

Images were taken with a Lunt 60mm (PT) solar telescope and Canon 700D camera :-)

~ Antares, Rho Ophiuchi region and Blue Horsehead Nebula IC 4592 in Scorpius & Ophiuchus ~
 
The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is one of the nearest star forming regions to the Sun. It is composed of emission, reflection and dark nebulae; the brightest parts of the cloud complex include the nebulae IC 4604, IcC4603 and IC 4605.
 
IC 4604, also known, as the Rho Ophiuchi Nebula is a reflection nebula illuminated by the star Rho Ophiuchi itself, which is located in the constellation of Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer.
 
Antares is the alpha star in Scorpius, just one and a half degrees away from Antares is the globular star cluster M4.
 
Images taken with Canon 6D Mark 11 camera and Canon f2.8 70-200mm lens piggybacked on tracking telescope. Both images; subs 25x3 minutes darks 15x3 minutes, ISO2500. Stacked in DSS, processed in PS.

~ NGC 6334 Cats Paw & NGC 6357 Lobster Nebulae in a sea of stars in the tail of Scorpius ~
 
This is a wide field star rich image around the sting area of Scorpius near the bright stars Shaula and Lesath. The Cats Paw nebula is also know as the Bear Claw nebula and is an emission nebula about 50 light years across at a distance of 5,500 light years from Earth.
 
It is one of the nearest H II regions that’s a very active stellar nursery and it really does look like a Cats Paw stamped on the sky, I can also see a little hedgehog on his back smiling at me :-)
 
British astronomer John Herschel discovered the nebula in 1837 while observing the southern skies at Cape of Good Hope in South Africa using one of the largest telescopes available at the time.
 
The other nebula close by is NGC 6357 known as the Lobster Nebula or War and Peace nebula that is another emission nebula about 5,900 light years away, it hosts several massive young stars clusters and is a prominent star forming region with proto-stars embedded within the dark disks of gas.
 
Along with all the rich star and dust fields other stellar objects can also be seen, with the large M6 star cluster in the top left hand corner.
 
I’m really getting into discovering the Barnard dark nebulae embedded throughout the Milky Way and have marked a few on the Cats Paw image.
 
This image was taken at my Stardust Observatory in August 2023 using a Canon 6D Mark 11 camera with a Canon F2.8 70-200 lens attached. The camera was being attached to the top of a tracking Meade LX200 10inch telescope.