The night side of the world Turns and starts a fire in the sky The fire then cools down By the bone chill of the night to come And in-between I see the luminous Incandescent Cinders. Venus in the east Floating in a carpet of blue and black Weaved by

The above is the image I took on 9th September 2025. This is without any solar filters, just early morning mild sun. One can see 4 prominent sunspots. Each larger than the earth. Here is reference image from Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (NASA).

So we had zero visibility on the day of the full Lunar eclipse on account of the monsoon storm. This was 7th September 2025. On the 8th, there was some visibility and I got some images (not of the eclipse ofcourse). This is not full moon but nearly so (99.

I went up last night to see a bright waxing gibbous moon in the clear winter night; positioned at near-zenith with Jupiter in the north-west. A serendipitous combination of a bright moon, close apparent proximity of Jupiter and moon, azimuth at zenith, and perhaps most importantly, chromatic aberrations of the

Today is one those sleepless nights when my unbearable migraine takes me to the terrace. The black and blue sky before sunrise in winter is comforting and chilling at the same time. There was a halo around the waning gibbous moon today. I went to down to get my gear

The central star cluster in this photo is the Globular Cluster in constellation Pegasus. This is my second cluster photo after Hercules Globular Cluster. I have been able to do a better job at the capturing the incredible star density. I do not wish to make technical observations. These photographs

So I had stopped photographing the skies for some months. I was not getting to a point of clicking any photos, let alone getting good ones. I simply couldn't set up the gear properly. Astrophotography is highly technical requiring complex and sensitive equipment and some very quaint softwares which seem