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Website: https://eapod.euFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanAPOD/I'm excited to announce that a new EAPOD website has been created to promote Astrophotography and Astronomy in Europe, and to showcase the efforts of European Astrophotographers.I was honoured to be asked to be a judge on the team.As one of the ten judges, I review images on the Flickr page, and put forward my own suggestions on images that I think would be good to publish on the site. If the other judges approve of the suggestion, the image gets published (provided the photographer has given the go ahead to do so), together with a detailed write-up about the...

I was honoured to have been asked to write the monthly "Image Processing" article in this month's BBC "Sky At Night" magazine for December 2016, where I give details on how I stitched the Orion Mega mosaic! Here's a sneak preview of my article... You can find more info on the contents of the Dec 2016 issue by clicking here! Interested in a digital subscription to the 'Sky at Night' magazine?I see that you can now subscribe to digital editions of the magazine which is very cool for reading on iPads, etc. More info can be found here.

I had a very successful trip to Iceland to photograph the Aurora Borealis!After staying an extra two nights, I weathered a snow blizzard to get to Pingvellir Park, a dark location in one of Iceland's National Parks. While it was mostly cloudy that night, the aurora could be seen through clouds, all night!During a ten minute gap in the clouds, I set up the camera to take still images for a video I captured, which I've posted on my Flickr site here and also below :- You can see what I call the "Christmas Tree Nebula" below (which is also up on...

While imaging the Cassiopeia mosaic, myself and Olly found a Ha signal below the Gamma Cass IC 59 and IC63 nebulae. We thought this was worth some further investigation!As a result, we ended up collecting 51 hours of data in a two panel mosaic with the Dual Tak set up. We took 24 hours of Ha data over the two panels, which showed a weak single continuing from the IC nebulae around Gamma Cass.After processing the image, the nebula appeared to be of the same structure. Olly coined the name Breaking Wave, which I hope sticks. We have not seen this...

Tom O’DonoghueTom O’DonoghueAfter another successful imaging trip to Les Granges France, the base Luminance layer for the next Mega Mosaic has been captured! I managed to image 100 hours of Luminance on a 5x5 mosaic format. The picture above has been constructed to show how all the 25 panes match up. I use this layer to register all frames to, before the blending process begins. I'll continue to report on progress here so stay tuned for further updates! :)