Night sky

The night sky has been my passion for years, and it even found its way into my research. Here are some of the moments I've captured.

SPIE Adaptive Optics Systems IX · 2024 AI-powered Low-order Focal Plane Wavefront Sensing in Infrared

Estimating telescope wavefront errors with AI, validated on data from the Keck I adaptive optics bench. In collaboration with leading observatories such as the Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory, W. M. Keck Observatory and the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, and the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille.

Deep sky

The Andromeda Galaxy, a bright elliptical core with dust lanes, against a dense star field.
Andromeda Galaxy (M31)2018
The Orion Nebula glowing pink and blue against a dark star field.
Orion Nebula2018
The Rosette Nebula, a ring of blue and magenta gas around a dark centre holding a cluster of stars.
Rosette Nebula2020
The face-on spiral Pinwheel Galaxy, small and blue, in a field of scattered stars.
Pinwheel Galaxy (M101)2020
A wide field of the Orion region with faint red arcs of Barnard's Loop and pink nebulae.
Barnard's Loop and Orion2018

Milky Way

The Milky Way arching across the whole sky above dark silhouetted hills.
The Milky Way arch2018
A long panorama of the Milky Way's bright core and dark dust lanes.
Milky Way panorama2019
A dense Milky Way star field in Cygnus with dark dust lanes and the reddish North America Nebula.
Cygnus and the North America Nebula2018

Moon and eclipses

A detailed gibbous Moon showing craters and maria along the terminator.
Waxing gibbous Moon2017
A diagonal sequence of the Moon moving into Earth's shadow and turning copper red.
Total lunar eclipse2018
Overlapping exposures of the Moon tracing the curved edge of Earth's shadow.
The shadow of Earth, partial lunar eclipse2017
The black disc of the Moon surrounded by the white glow of the solar corona.
Total solar eclipse2024

Aurora and star trails

Green and vivid red aurora curtains filling the sky above a dark horizon.
Aurora2024
A panorama of green aurora pillars over a flat field with grass in the foreground.
Aurora panorama2020
Long star trails streaking across a purple sky behind a telescope on its mount.
Star trails over a telescope2017
Star trails circling the celestial pole above a lone tree.
Circumpolar star trails2018
Star trails over hills, with a parked van and red-lit tents in the foreground.
Star trails over camp2018

* In collaboration with Saeed Anvar.