Jon Sharpe

Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist and slowly improving Astrophotographer. Professional high stakes Where’s Wally player.

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A beautiful Aurora dancing in the skies above Hella, Iceland on Monday night.

First ever try at processing this kind of image and producing a gif...

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@AwesomeAstroPod Bit of Hercules Cluster action to kick off my 2022/2023 astrophotography season. Courtesy of the Stellina.

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Cold 🥶 but clear last night. Lovely conditions for astrophotography. First chance this winter to image the Great Orion Nebula. 1344 light years away from Horsforth, Yorkshire. @AwesomeAstroPod

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@VirtualAstro Caught over Horsforth 👍

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The Hercules Cluster, imaged from North Leeds, UK @Vaonis_fr #ThePhotoHour

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@blt_astro Looks like we both chose the same target last night! You got a superb result 👍

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Last night’s shot of the Crescent Nebula. Taken from light polluted Leeds with a magical Stellina 🤯 @Vaonis_fr #mystellina

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The Ring Nebula - a white dwarf approaching the end of it’s life and losing it’s gasses to space, hot blue gas on the inside and colder outer gas showing up red. Expanding by around 12 miles per second, before disappearing completely in around 10,000 years. @AwesomeAstroPod

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@sjb_astro Nicely done 👍

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@blt_astro Boom 👊 The Bath/Leeds high level astronomy connection has survived.

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@blt_astro Very nicely done!

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Bit of Dumbbell Nebula while searching for Perseids after work? Don’t mind if I do. @AwesomeAstroPod @Vaonis_fr #mystellina

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@kneeguyuk @yorfac @AwesomeAstroPod Great stuff, if you’ve got a pair of binoculars handy you should be able to make out the four Galilean moons of Jupiter too 👍

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Lovely clear evening last night.

Jupiter - 607 million km from Leeds

Saturn - 1.3 billion km from Leeds

Hercules cluster - 22,180 light years from Leeds

Pinwheel galaxy - 20.87 million light years from Leeds @AwesomeAstroPod

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Stellina witchcraft - Hercules globular cluster on a summers evening, before it’s properly dark, from light polluted Leeds 🤯 @Vaonis_fr @AwesomeAstroPod

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@AwesomeAstroPod I’m afraid it’s probably going to be cloudy in the UK for the next 2 months. Apologies.

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40 year anniversary since the first shuttle launch. Bottle of red and this...

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@yorfac @danfascia 😂

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@BirchwoodFarm @SkyNews Few zeros missing there I think! 😂 Best fireworks show of the year 👍

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@blt_astro Superb! 👍👏

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@tomkerss @skyatnightmag @BBCLondonNews @MetOfficeSpace @NHM_London @sciencemuseum @bbcweather @apod @metpoliceuk @bbcworldservice @CollinsAstro A truly fantastic picture Tom. Very well done 👍 👏