Gordon Mackay
Red glowing emission nebula with a bright rim, shaped like a ghost, in a star field with a bright blue-white star at lower right

Gordon Mackay

Telescope Astrophotography

Deep-sky objects, the Moon, planets, comets and aurora — photographed over two decades, most recently from a Bortle 7/8 back garden in Glasgow.

Two galaxies in one field: a tilted edge-on galaxy at left and a larger oval spiral galaxy with a warm core at rightSmall glowing ring of blue and orange gas near the centre of a wide star fieldFace-on spiral galaxy with a bright core and sweeping pale arms in the upper right of a star fieldLarge tilted spiral galaxy with a bright core, with a smaller companion galaxy at lower right, among scattered starsBright compact globular cluster of white stars at the centre of a sparse star field, with an orange star nearbyBright red emission nebula with dark dust lanes cutting into it from the right, filled with stars

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