Author: Will Vrbasso

Aus Astrophotographer of the Year

I am deeply honoured to have been awarded Australia’s Astrophotographer of the Year by Skywatcher Australia for 2024. This is a very prestigious and popular competition held by Skywatcher Australia, and the quality and...

The Tarantula’s Web

Nestled in its lair in the Large Magellanic Clouds, the massive Tarantula Nebula spreads out its faint webs to catch some stella pray. Been a while since my last effort through a telescope, warming...

The Triplet

Three spiral galaxies, M65, M66 and NGC3628 dance together amongst the stars. Galaxies are not my usual targets but as my primary target (M78) was getting low in the west I thought I’d fill...

The Coiling Dragon

Messier 78 writhes in Orion’s nebula, coiling restlessly like an asian dragon within a heaven of smoke and glimpses of fire. Its getting a bit late in the season for M78, I had to...

The Burning Flower

With a bit of imagination, this image of the center of the Carina nebula appears like a flower surrounded in a turbulent sea of flame. Even brighter than the Orion Nebula, the Carina nebula...

Mist of Pleiades (redux)

Re-learning some old processing skills that have faded over the past year of relative inaction, I’ve re-processed my previous wide-field image to include some shorter length exposures to produce an HDR version. HDR has...

Magellan Tempest

There has been recent furore regarding the naming of the Magellanic Clouds (despite his early writings on the galaxies, Magellan was not the earliest recorder of the galaxies). A movement has been growing to...