Peter Lloyd's Astronomical Images

All the images on this site are Copyright © 2003-2007 Peter H. Lloyd, and were taken from Toddington, Bedfordshire, in the United Kingdom (51º 56' 47"N 0º 32' 05"W. Elevation 150 metres). No image may be reproduced in any way without my permission (which will normally be given, subject to the usual conditions, in response to a courteous request to the address at the bottom of this page).

This site has not been updated in a long while. It outgrew the space allowed on this server so I moved all but the Lunar pictures to geocities servers. However geocities is closing down on 26th October 2009, so all the content there will vanish and the links below will break. I probaly won't reinstate this site as my new site is up and running at www.astrolloyd.tk. Meanwhile this site will remain in limbo. So please visit my new site.

My Pictures

Click on any picture below to see what I have on that particular object. Pages are no longer being updated. I have a page listing my 10 most-recent images (below) and a page listing my most recent lunar images (on my Moon page), which may be of help.

Home On most of my pages you will see this icon in the top, right-hand corner. Clicking on it will bring you back to this page. (I hope eventually it will be on all my pages but there are a lot of them...)

"East is East, and West is West". Or is it?

Acknowledgements

I am indebted to QCUIAG for its members' continual encouragement and the amazing software that several of them have written and give away for free. I am particularly grateful to:

Peter Katreniak for K3CCDTools,*
Cor Berrevoets for RegiStax,
Steve Chambers for the long-exposure modifications.
Jon Grove for iMerge.
Jan Timmermans for help in all sorts of ways.
And Paul Gordon who owns the server on which my main site resides for his generosity in hosting the site and maintaining the hardware.

Without people like these who give freely of their time, skill, and expertise, so much less would be possible.

*Peter Katreniak now makes a small change for K3CCDTools version 2. This in no way affects my gratitude to him for K3CCDTools.

I am also indebted to:

Christan Lagrande and Patrick Chevalley for Virtual Moon Atlas
Patrick Chevalley again for Cartes du Ciel, a marvellous star atlas,
Charles Wood for his book The Modern Moon (Sky Publishing 2003), and for the Lunar Picture of the Day, an ever updating source of information about the Moon,
Henry Hatfield for his book Amateur Astronomer's Photographic Lunar Atlas (Lutterworth Press 1968),
Antonín Rükl for his Atlas of the Moon (revised and updated by Gary Seronik, Sky Publishing 2004).
These are the sources of most of the information I have been able to add to my lunar pages. Without them I would know so much less about the Moon.

Test Strip

The squares are evenly spaced in grey apart from the darkest, which is not quite black, and the lightest, which is not quite white, so these two should be distinguishable from the background which is truely black on the left and white on the right.

Compatibility

I generally test this site with Netscape 7.2, or Mozilla Firefox version 2.0.0.6. There are features that Netscape and Firefox respond to but Microsoft Internet Explorer does not. I have tried to avoid these features. I make much use of mouseovers and some older browsers do not respond to this command. If you are using one of those (such as Netscape 4.3 which I have) then the identification of features on the Sun and Moon will not work. Since the whole point of this site is the images, text-only browsers are poorly supported.

Contact

I can be contacted at "ph.lloyd [at] ntlworld [dot] com".