Will Gater Astrophotography

Lunar occultation of Saturn 2007 (composite image)

Saturn (upper right) close to the stars of Scorpius one day after opposition - 23 May 2015

Jupiter, the Great Red Spot and Callisto, 5 December 2012

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) showing both ion and dust tails - 19/20 July 2020

Saturn - 16 May 2014

The crescent Venus - 15 March 2017. RGB image captured around 13:53UT. Phase illumination 4.5%

The crescent Moon with Venus (far left) and Saturn (above centre, right - faint) - 2 November 2016

Mars, eight days after opposition, rising over Exmoor National Park, UK - 4 August 2018

Jupiter, Io (& its shadow transiting) and Europa - 2 February 2015

Streamers within the ion tail of Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) - 16 January 2015

Venus, Mercury and the Pleiades star cluster over Dartmoor

Mars at ~21:57UT - 4 November 2020 - showing Syrtis Major, the Hellas Basin and the planet's south polar ice cap. Hazes and clouds can be seen on the northeastern limb.

Comet C/2014 E2 (Jacques) - 22/23 August 2014

Comet 46P/Wirtanen in the moonlight with the Pleiades star cluster (M45) - 15 December 2018

Jupiter, the Great Red Spot and Io (plus Io's shadow) - 29 December 2013

Saturn with moons (from left) Tethys, Enceladus, Dione, Rhea and Titan [composite of separate moons & planet data]

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) over the Quantock Hills, Somerset - 12 July 2020

The gibbous Venus - 11 April 2015

Uranus - 24 October 2015

Jupiter & Saturn shining over the still waters off the Jurassic Coast - 15 July 2021

Saturn - 8 April 2007

Jupiter and the Great Red Spot, December 2012

Mars in a moonlit sky over a misty Somerset lane – December 2022

The crescent Venus (red filter) - 13 March 2017, 11:56UT. Phase illumination 5.9%.

Neptune, October 2014

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy). Luminance data from Atik 314L+ CCD combined with colour data from DSLR - 16 January 2015

Venus & Jupiter sitting in the glow of twilight - 22 June 2015

Mercury at twilight — 17 May 2021

Jupiter, the Great Red Spot, Callisto (right) and Ganymede (left) - 5 December 2012

Venus and the crescent Moon with Earthshine – 6 December 2021

The faint glitter paths of Jupiter (top right) & the bright star Antares (centre left) on the English Channel from the south Devon coast. Faint airglow is also visible above the horizon at right.

Comet C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) and the open star clusters M38 and M36 as well as the Flaming Star Nebula - 26 February 2019

The approaching Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn - 6 December 2020

Jupiter with Europa beginning to transit and the Great Red Spot - 15 April 2015

Mars showing albedo features, clouds and the north polar ice cap, 16 April 2014

Four planets in the predawn sky: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter - 25 October 2015

Jupiter, just past opposition, among the stars of Leo - 10/11 March 2016

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) over Somerset, UK - 23:38BST, 15 July 2020

Venus - 5 January 2017, ~13:49UT

Jupiter with Io (centre) & Ganymede (right) - 27 October 2012

Saturn, Mars and the bright star Antares at twilight - 22 August 2016

Jupiter (with the Jovian moons Ganymede, Europa & Callisto) and Venus - 29 June 2015

Venus & the Pleiades star cluster at twilight - 11 April 2015

The Moon, Jupiter & all four Galilean moons (single exposure) - 21 March 2016

The Moon, Venus & Mars over Somerset at twilight - 2 January 2017

Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner and the open cluster Messier 35 - 13 September 2018

Saturn with the moons Dione, Enceladus (faint), Tethys, Rhea and Titan [composite image] - 3 June 2015

Jupiter with the moons Ganymede (centre) and Io (top right) - 17 April 2016 - 22:00UT

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) over Fernworthy Reservoir, Dartmoor - 20 July 2020

Jupiter at twilight - 20 July 2019

Callisto shadow transit on Jupiter (with Io at left) - 23:10UT, 17 March 2016

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) over the lights of South Wales, as seen from Exmoor National Park - 10 July 2020

The shimmering crescent Venus peeking out from behind clouds - 22 March 2017

Close approach of near-Earth asteroid 2004 BL86 - 26 January 2015 - approx. 24 minutes of motion

Venus in 2015

Mercury, the Moon and the Pleiades (M45), April 2009

Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak passing by the galaxy M108 and the Owl Nebula (M97) - 22 March 2017

Jupiter & the bright star Spica over Exmoor International Dark Sky Reserve - 22 April 2017

Venus & Mercury (at top) at twilight - 12 March 2018

Mars showing albedo features, clouds and the north polar ice cap, 10 April 2014

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) & globular cluster M79

Asteroid Vesta & the Leo Triplet galaxies - 5 March 2021

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) - Dartmoor National Park - 20 July 2020

Comet C/2014 E2 (Jacques) - 20 August 2014

Venus with the Pleiades & Hyades star clusters - 13 April 2015

Venus setting over Dartmoor National Park, Devon — May 2021

Saturn & its rings showing the Cassini Division - 23:46UT - 3 June 2015

Jupiter at opposition with the Galilean moon Ganymede - 23:51UT, 7 April 2017. Inset is a crop of a 500% resize of the red channel showing albedo features on the surface of Ganymede.

Mercury just before sunrise - 25 October 2015

Saturn (upper right) two days past opposition among the stars of the Milky Way - 17 June 2017

Mars - 26 November 2018

The crescent Venus - 14 May 2020

Solar System family portrait

Saturn & Titan with the Moon and Earthshine - 31 August 2014

Saturn & Jupiter five days before their Great Conjunction - 16 December 2020

Mars and the Pleiades star cluster over Exmoor National Park, UK - 25 March 2019

Animation of Callisto shadow transit on Jupiter - 21:59-22:33UT, 17 March 2016

Saturn and the moons (from left) Titan, Dione, Tethys, Enceladus & Rhea - 8 April 2007

Venus at twilight - 12 March 2017

Venus, Mars & Uranus through mist at dusk - 4 March 2015

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) among the stars of Ursa Major from Dartmoor National Park - 20 July 2020

Near-Earth asteroid (3122) Florence - approx. 50 mins of movement around time of close approach - 1 September 2017

Comet C/2013 US10 (Catalina) between the bright star Alkaid (right) and the galaxy M101 (left) - 16 January 2016

Mars showing the north polar ice cap and albedo features (including Acidalia Planitia & Mare Erythraeum) - 31 January 2010

Jupiter and the Great Red Spot - ~21:40UT, 24 May 2017

The crescent Moon and Venus - 21 April 2015

Mars widefield view, April 2014

The crescent Venus - 28 July 2015

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) passing the Pleiades (M45) - 15 January 2015

Uranus

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) over a rippling display of bright noctilucent clouds - Somerset, UK - 10 July 2020

Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)

Neptune at opposition - 1 September 2015

Saturn red channel detail, May 2014

Jupiter and Venus converging in the evening sky during June 2015

The thin crescent of Venus (6.1% illuminated) - 2 August 2015

Mercury at twilight, a day before greatest eastern elongation - 17 April 2016

Venus among the stars of the Pleiades star cluster (M45) - 3 April 2020

The tiny crescent of Mercury at greatest eastern elongation (red channel image) - 1 April 2017

Near-Earth asteroid 2014 JO25 racing across the starfields of Canes Venatici (8 x 1-minute exposures) - 20 April 2017

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) near to globular cluster Messier 79 - 28 December 2014

The crescent Moon & Venus at evening twilight as seen from the north Devon coast – 12 June 2021

Jupiter and Callisto - ~23:20UT, 6 April 2017

Mars - 22 July 2018

Contrast enhanced (and at left inverted) images of ion & dust tail structures within Comet C/2020 F (NEOWISE)- 15 July 2020

The Moon, Venus and the Hyades and Pleiades star clusters over Exmoor National Park - 18 April 2018

Asteroid 16 Psyche at opposition - 7 December 2020

Lunar occultation of Saturn, May 2007

Crescent Moon, Earthshine, the Hyades star cluster and Venus - 21 April 2015

Mars showing clouds & hazes around the limb - 23:33UT, 25 May 2016. Altitude ~16 degrees.

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) over Somerset, UK - 11 July 2020

Venus (RGB colour) - 23 May 2015

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) - A: stacked image created from thirty 30-second exposures. B: single processed frame showing green colour of coma. C: inverted crop of main A image showing streamer detail

Jupiter, the Great Red Spot, Io and Io's shadow

Mars and the Hyades & Pleiades star clusters at twilight - 16 March 2021

Wide view of Mercury at greatest eastern elongation - 1 April 2017

Regulus, Jupiter & Venus - 9 June 2015

Jupiter & the moons Io (far left) and Europa (left) - 21:48UT, 25 May 2017

The crescent Moon (showing Earthshine) and the planets Venus & Neptune - 28 Jan 2020

Lunar occultation of Venus, June 2007

A heavily processed stack of images showing Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE), including the comet's dust and ion tails and subtle synchrone structures in the dust tail (at right) - 10 July 2020

Near-Earth asteroid 1566 Icarus - 18/19 June 2015

Jupiter, the Moon and the Hyades star cluster

Triple shadow transit on Jupiter (animation of red channels) - 24 January 2015

Venus at twilight through silhouetted snow showers - 26 February 2018

Comet C/2013 US10 (Catalina) in twilight on the morning of 4 December 2015

The conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter - 19 December 2020

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) showing green coma emission - 20 July 2020

Venus and Jupiter conjunction

Crescent Venus, 1 May 2012

Jupiter - 20 January 2016 - 01:41 UT

Close approach of Saturn and the Moon seen through passing clouds - 31 August 2014

Comet 46P/Wirtanen in the moonlight with the Pleiades star cluster (M45) & the Hyades star cluster - 15 December 2018

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) from the Quantock Hills, Somerset - 12 July 2020

Grouping of Mars, Jupiter and Venus in the morning sky - 25 October 2015

The Moon & Jupiter at twilight - 7 May 2017

Mercury (above left) at evening twilight - 22 February 2019

Brilliant Venus approaching the Pleiades star cluster in moonlight - 31 March 2020

Venus with a Schuler UV filter showing cloud features in the planet's atmosphere - 5 January 2017, 14:18UT

Jupiter - ~21:43UT, 3 June 2018

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) in deep twilight as seen from Exmoor National Park - 10 July 2020

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) over Somerset, UK - stack of 30x 25-second exposures fixed on comet's head - 15 July 2020

Jupiter and Venus at twilight - 5th June 2015

The crescent Venus - 13 March 2017, ~11:39UT. RGB image. Phase illumination is 5.9%.

Saturn and Jupiter (plus several Galilean Moons) prior to their Great Conjunction - 15 December 2020

Venus at twilight - Exmoor National Park, 20 April 2018

Comet 46P/Wirtanen - 9 December 2018, ~21:49UT

Comet C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS) passing the galaxy NGC 3726, 21 May 2014

Uranus - 4 November 2014

Brilliant Venus shining among the stars of Aries along with the planet Uranus (indicated by the small arrow) at a distance of more than 3 billion km - 6 March 2020

Venus near to the Pleiades star cluster - 2 April 2020

Venus, 1 April 2012

Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS), 13 March 2013

Comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) - 28 December 2013

The crescent Venus - 8 April 2020

Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune sitting along the path of the ecliptic with the crescent Moon – 6 December 2021

Venus & Jupiter in close conjunction - 30 June 2015

Venus and the Pleiades (M45), 2 April 2012

The Moon, Mercury and Venus over snowy Somerset, UK - 19 March 2018

Saturn and Jupiter two days prior to their Great Conjunction - 19 December 2020

Jupiter with Io, Europa and Ganymede

Mars and the Pleiades star cluster - 28 February 2021

Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) and the globular cluster Messier 3 – 2 December 2021