Paul & Lorraine's Picture of the Month pages

Our Picture of the Month page began with the June 2002 image of a Peacock Butterfly and each month a picture taken by one of us (mainly by Paul but occasionally taken by Lorraine) is selected to be the current months image. The pictures can be of a wide range of subjects but as you can imagine Astronomy, Nature and Butterflies do tend to dominate! The current months image is below and and below that lies the current years images as a slide show. Past years can be viewed by the buttons at the side of the current months image or in mobile view .

We hope you enjoy the many images and continue to watch out for what images we select for future months and years to come.
Paul & Lorraine

Current: April 2025

This patch of nebulosity lies in Cepheus and was imaged with the RedCat 61 WIFD Refractor, Canon R8 and Quad filter, stack of 178 x 1 minutes exposures @ ISO 10000 taken on March 28th 2025. The bright nebula at left is Cederblad 214 (NGC 7822) and the arc shaped nebula to its right is NGC 7762 including a star cluster at the lower end of it in this image. At bottom left is a small nebula nicknamed the Little Rosette nebula and all together some reckon it all looks like a cosmic question mark but I think a deeper image may show more of the nebulosity that gives it that nickname.

2025

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