Will’s astrophotography
In his spare time Will is a keen astrophotographer. His pictures of the night sky have appeared in books, magazines and on television all over the world. Below you’ll find a small gallery of some of his favourite shots.
All images © Will Gater. All rights reserved.
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- The Sun’s disc in hydrogen-alpha light
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- Saturn in 2013
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- High-resolution Moon mosaic
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- The Orion & Running Man Nebulae
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- Earthshine
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- Hadley Rille
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- The Northern Lights shine through clouds
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- The lunar crater Posidonius
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- Jupiter & the Great Red Spot
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- Jupiter with the Hyades & Pleiades
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- The North America and Pelican Nebulae
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- Solar active region in h-alpha
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- The Harvest Moon
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- The Scutum Star Cloud
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- Lunar craters Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus & Arzachel
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- The Milky Way over Dartmoor
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- The Lagoon & Trifid Nebulae
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- The Northern Lights
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- Solar prominence
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- The lunar crater Copernicus
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- The Diamond Ring effect
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- The Double Cluster
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- The Milky Way
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- The Harvest Moon
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- The Horsehead Nebula
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- Noctilucent cloud structures
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- The constellations of Crux & Carina
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- The crescent Moon and Venus
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- Globular cluster Messier 22
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- High-resolution lunar mosaic
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- Plato & the Vallis Alpes
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- Roiling Sun
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- The Pleiades
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- Crescent Moon, Earthshine & clouds
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- The crescent Venus
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- Messier 35 star cluster
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- Noctilucent clouds
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- The Andromeda Galaxy
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- The Leo Triplet galaxies
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- Orion star trails
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- Saturn in 2007
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- Solar prominence
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- Moonrise over mountains
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- Lunar crater Clavius
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- Globular cluster M13
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- Noctilucent clouds
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- Lunar craters Clavius, Moretus & Tycho
Astronomy stock photography
If you’re looking for a picture of a celestial object for your project please get in touch via email. Will’s library of astro-images, taken by himself, includes pictures of many different phenomena and objects including:
- the Moon
- the planets (including close-ups and widefield landscape images)
- deep sky targets (such as star clusters and nebulae)
- atmospheric phenomena (including noctilucent clouds, the aurora, & ice haloes)
- satellite flares and ISS passes
- solar and lunar eclipses
