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Stargazing Ayrshire student captures stunning photos of space from back garden

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A stargazing Ayrshire student has captured stunning images of space from his own back garden. Bryan Shaw, 28, spent hours taking incredible snaps and mesmerising clips outside his New Cumnock home.The fourth-year student captured the starry skies using a makeshift telescope as part of his end-of-year project for his BA Broadcast Production: TV & Radio course.Bryan – who only began taking photographs of space in April last year – devoted full nights to his project, taking images of the stars long into the small hours.The former Cumnock Academy pupil managed to capture detailed images of star clusters and nebulas located light years away.His stunning gallery of space pics include Pleiades, a cluster of more than 800 stars, a barred spiralled galaxy known as the Andromeda Galaxy and the Orion Nebula, a feature of the Milky Way.The Ayrshire Live app is available to download now.Get all the local news in your area – plus features, football news and the latest on the coronavirus crisis – at your fingertips 24/7.The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories while you can customise your page with the sections that matter to you.The Ayrshire Live app is available to download now on iOS and Android.Bryan, who also studied photography at Ayrshire College, said: “When I began taking these photographs, it was very much trial-and-error as to how best to do it."I tried different set-ups and different lenses before eventually settling on what I use now.“It took time to figure out what the best way of doing this was.

It wasn’t just about figuring out the perfect set-up, though – I had to learn how to identify and track what I wanted to photograph.”Bryan has hailed the clear East Ayrshire night skies for

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