John Maclean FRAS FRGS

@exeterobservatory.com

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Astronomer, Astro-photographer, Cruise ship lecturer on astrophysics and astronomy. Writer, Northern Lights guide. Meteor researcher, OSIRIS-Rex Ambassador. Archeoastronomy.

John Macleaan FRAS FRGS
Starfield
Image of the Sun usin g the Dwarf 3 smart scope.
Northern lights
The sun
Northern lights
Coldwater article about Nazi concentration camp.
Traitors
Merry Xmas from Astroexeter
Statue of Liberty playing bagpipes.
Alaskan
The Harvest Moon from Exeter Observatory.
Todays sunspots. Taken with Dwarf 3 from Exeter Observatory, UK.
M31, the Andromeda Galaxy. Taken from Exeter Observatory using the Dwarf 3. 120 subs, 60sec exp, gain 60.
Weather has not been great lately but tonight I managed to grab an hour of clear skies. Captured C33 using 200 20sec exposures at gain 60. Processed in Megastack then Pixinsight.
M33 Triangulum Galaxy from Exeter Observatory.
Sunspots from Exeter today. Taken with a Dwarf 3 smart scope.
Caught a large Persied fireball on one of my meteor cameras on the 12 August 2025.
There are lots of sunspots on the Sun today. Image taken with Dwarf 3 smart telescope for Exeter.
Grey whale in Sitka Sound.
Nebula
Crab Nebula
Scottish meteor fall track on map.
Bald Eagles in Ketchikan, Alaska.
Valdez, Alaska.
Musk Alien.
Nice groups of Sunspots on the Sun today. Taken with Dwarf 3 smart telescope from Exeter Observatory.
Lots of sunspots on the Sun today. All are stable with no flares predicted.
Whirlpool Galaxy was taken from Exeter Observatory with the Dwarf 3 smart scope. It is 31 million lightyears (9.5 megaparsecs/Mpc) away and 23.58 kiloparsecs (76,900 ly) in diameter.
The Iris Nebula from Exeter Observatory using the Dwarf 3 smart telescope.
Close-up photo of a Robin sitting on a fence in an Englisg garden.
The Iris Nebula taken with Dwarf 3 tonight, 150x30sec subs at gain 60. Processed in Stellar Studio, Pixinsight and Photoshop.
The Sun today from Exeter Observatory. Sunspot 4087 is quite active.
Different processing of M81 taken with a Dwarf 3 smartscope.
Bodes Galaxy (M81) from Exeter Observatory tonight using the Dwarf 3 smart scope.
The Sun from Exeter Observatory today. There are still a few sunspots on the Earth facing hemisphere.
Watching "The Expanse" and in one scene I spotted comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This was the comet visited by the ESA Rosetta mission.
Solar imaging is so easy with the Dwarf 3 smart scope.
Nice waxing crescent Moon tonight. Taken with Dwarf 3. 1/200 x 20 exposures stacked.
The Sun in astro mode on Dwarf 3. Shutter 1/3200, gain 2 and 20 stacked images. Annotated sunspots 4079 and 4078.