Welcome to the "Amazing Sky," an eclectic collection of astronomical images by Alan Dyer.

My collection contains galleries divided by subject matter and by type of object. The slide show presents my latest images. The Featured Galleries below are the more popular, but for the complete collection, select Galleries from the top menu. See Portfolio for a show of my favourite images. My Blog has news of my astrophoto exploits. Check AmazingSky.ca for galleries of my videos and stills.

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To find specific subjects from the 1500 images on my site, select a Gallery and browse, or use Search to enter what you might be looking for, i.e. M51, or the Whirlpool Galaxy, or simply Galaxy. For NGC and IC objects, search for the catalog number, or NGC&xxxx, to narrow it to just NGC object #xxxx. For a photo of a constellation and objects in that constellation, search for the constellation name. i.e. Gemini. To narrow the search to images of just the constellation itself, type Gemini&constellation. For images of conjunctions between objects, say conjunctions of Venus and Jupiter, type Venus&Jupiter.

Alan Dyer is a writer and producer of science programs for the TELUS Spark science centre in Calgary. He is one of Canada’s best-known astronomy writers, particularly as associate editor of SkyNews magazine. He also serves as a contributing editor to Sky and Telescope, writing reviews of equipment.

He has co-authored several best selling guidebooks for amateur astronomers, including, with Terence Dickinson, The Backyard Astronomer’s Guide, reprinted and revised in 2010 (Firefly Books). He is also author of several children’s book on space, notably Insiders: Spaceand Mission to the Moon, both for Simon and Schuster. A new kids book about Stars is due in 2011. He also contributed sections to National Geographic’s book Backyard Guide to the Night Sky.

Alan takes the opportunity as often as possible to visit the southern hemisphere to pursue both observing and photography under southern skies. His other obsession, eclipse chasing, has taken him to every continent, chalking up 13 total solar eclipses — #14 will be in Australia in 2012. Asteroid 78434 is named for him.