Pete Lawrence

Astronomer and presenter

Pete Lawrence is an experienced astronomer and astrophotographer, and a presenter on BBC's The Sky at Night.

Recent articles by Pete Lawrence

woman observing night sky through telescope

Observing guide See Neptune in the night sky throughout October

Jupiter Opposition 2021 Prabhu, Mleiha, UAE, 19 August 2021 Equipment: ZWO ASI462MC camera, Celestron 11-inch EdgeHD Schmidt-Cassegrain

Jupiter opposition See the gas giant at its best this week

moon venus 25 september 2022

See Venus near a morning crescent Moon this week

How to create an animation of Jupiter

Astrophotography guides

How to make a planetary animation of Jupiter

star epsilon lyrae double double

A guide to star Epsilon Lyrae, the Double Double

Red giant star Antares

A guide to star Antares

chart showing the location of star alderamin in the constellation cepheus

A guide to star Alderamin, Alpha Cephei

An image of a glowing orange full Moon rising through the clouds.

Gallery Harvest Moon

Credit: CEDIC Team + Bernhard Hubl / CCDGuide.com

A guide to the constellation Sagitta

A simulation of planets Uranus and Mars as they appeared through 7x50 binoculars on 2 August, 02:00 BST (01:00 UT). The variable runaway star 53 Arietis is close by. Credit: Pete Lawrence

See Mars meet Uranus and the Pleiades this weekend

NGC 6910 and Sadr by Bill McSorley, Leeds, UK. Equipment: SW150P, EQ5 Mount, QHY8L OSC camera.

A guide to star Sadr

Aquila Constellation

A guide to the constellation Aquila

Eta Aquilae, captured by the Digitised Sky Survey (https://archive.eso.org/dss/dss)

A guide to star Eta Aquilae

A Perseid Meteor by John Short, Dumfries, UK. Equipment: Sony A7s, Samyang 12mm fisheye

Perseids 2022 How to see this month's meteor shower

Lunar mountain shadows make excellent subjects for timelapse studies

Track moving shadows on the surface of the Moon