Bright circular planet with prominent horizontal bands.

Bright circular planet with prominent horizontal bands and bright red spot in lower left.

Jupiter is very well placed in the evening sky right now, and seeing improved last night, so I captured these two images of Jupiter about two hours apart. It illustrates how fast Jupiter rotates. #astrophotography Technical details in my gallery: app.astrobin.com/i/n7sx4x

I can't wait to get either of these two rigs in the field. The first rig will have a Benro Polaris tracking mount, and the 2nd will include a MoveShootMove rig. Each will give fantastic results...cannot wait!

Cool I need to get mine operational again. They are great!

M43

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "M43" by Deep Space Remote Observatories - Steve Mandel, Bob Fera, and Steeve Body

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#astrophotography

Did some playing with various gear tonight. Here is some of what I captured with my SeeStar S50. It was a fun night for sure. Will post other gear photos tomorrow. #astrophotography

New moon 3% at sunset 20/01/2026

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "New moon 3% at sunset 20/01/2026" by Łukasz Żak
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#astrophotography

Night Photo Summit 2026 Inspiring night photographers across the galaxy.

Thought I would check this out this year. Lots of great speakers --> I'm attending this event. RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 2026.nightphotosummit.com

Whisps of dust and gas giving the appearance of flames off a near by star. IC405 - The Flaming Star Nebula Published: Jan 3, 2026 Total integration: 8h Integration per filter: - R: 1h 40m (20 × 300") - G: 1h 40m (20 × 300") - B: 1h 40m (20 × 300") - Hα: 3h (36 × 300") Equipment: - Telescope: Stellarvue SVX102T - Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro - Mount: Losmandy G11 - Filters: ZWO Blue 2", ZWO Green 2", ZWO H-alpha 7nm 2", ZWO Red 2" - Accessory: Raspberry Pi 4 - Software: Adobe Photoshop, Aries Productions Astro Pixel Processor (APP), Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight, Software Bisque TheSky For more information, visit AstroBin: https://app.astrobin.com/i/rnd6qp

ic405 - The Flaming Star Nebula. I had fun framing it this way - It reminds me of a dragon. See it? HaRGB palette with about 8.5 hours worth of exposure time. Wide distribution of filters for each exposure group. Details are in the alt text.

#astrophotography 🔭📷
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At 5.15pm GMT today, the Earth will be at perihelion, the closest point to the Sun in our annual round.

This should be the start of the year. Happy new orbit, everyone!

That's a lot of red for sure. Sorry to hear that. I've been itching for some sky time as well...same basic stuff here in Binghamton, NY - just add snow.

Zoro + Sanji | One Piece Animatic YouTube video by Oxygenisachoice

My newest one piece animatic is out on my youtube now! it's focused on Zoro and Sanji :D

#art #onepiece #zosan

youtu.be/l_EAi9m6sTE

Here's the @astrobin posting of the image: app.astrobin.com/i/8a6leh

A cluster of stars that resembles a dragonfly, an owl, or even ET from the movie the Extraterrestrial. Many of the stars are vibrantly colored orange, red, blue, yellow and they shine through a fairly dense background starfield.

Here is one of my favorite visual objects, and makes a great astrophotography target too. Having a few names - The Owl Cluster, Dragonfly Cluster or ET Cluster, NGC 457 makes a great view in any size telescope. Details: 30 x 120s RGB, Stellarvue SVX102T Refractor, ASI2600MM. #astrophotography 🔭📷

Quadrantids. Credit: Stellarium.

Jan Astro Events

3-Earth perihelion
3-Full Moon
4-Quadrantids
6-Moon occults Regulus (NE Asia)
8-Venus v Mars
10-Jupiter opposition
14-The Moon occults Antares (Australia)
18-Mercury v Mars
18-New Moon
27-The Moon occults M45 (Arctic)
29-Mercury v Venus

www.universetoday.com/articles/top...

Thank you! The whole region around that is very similar.

Wonderful contrast on that Two things I get when I look at your photos. The contrast is amazing, and you really show of the spatial depth of the object. These are two things I'm motivated to get better at in 2026. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.

A crescent shaped nebula sits calmly surrounded by Hydrogen-Alpha wispy clouds and a sheening OIII blanket of blue dust and gas.

The Crescent Nebule (NGC 6888). I never tire of imaging this object and the surrounding area..

Details: RedCat 51mm, ASI2600MC Pro, AM5 mount. Dual band Ha/OIII filter, 3.5 hours exposure time at Cherry Springs State Park during the Black Forest Star Party.

#astrophotography 🔭📷

c/2025 K1

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "c/2025 K1" by APOWLuo and Vincent_huahua

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#astrophotography

So how late in the the year do we need to get to negotiate healthcare? The Dems have this angle @GOP. We are now at November for 2026 topics. Cmon, bend my little bendies! #shutdown

The First Day of #KopernikAstroFest is in the books, and a great time! Join us for Day #2 tomorrow 10/4. Looking like more clear skies again! kopernikastro.org/astrofest/ #astronomy

Day #2 live cast - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zgT...

Just one more day til #KopernikAstroFest, and it's looking like clear skies! Join The Kopernik Astronomical Society for a celebration of #astronomy. kopernikastro.org/astrofest/. October 3rd - 4th! 🔭

Day #1 (October 3rd) Live Link for you Youtube Virtual Attendees: www.youtube.com/watch?v=56fF...

It is that time of year again!!!! #KopernikAstroFest. Come join us for the celebration of astronomy and the night sky! kopernikastro.org/astrofest/. October 3rd - 4th!!! #astronomy 🔭

NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000 - NASA The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

I missed this recently, but NASA & ESA recently announced they discovered the 6000th exoplanet confirmation. That seems amazing to me, and it was just yesterday there were 10. Very abundant indeed. The imagination runs wild with this.

www.nasa.gov/universe/exo...

Pregaming the Black Forest Star Party at Cherry Springs State Park, PA, and making huge progress on my target list. I need a bigger list... 😂. #starparty #astronony #visualobserving

Rest in peace Ben of the Narrowband Channel. Thank you for sharing your love of #Astrophotography.

Thank you so much!

This is a wide-ish angle view of the Milky Way Galaxy and the Southern most view of it. The milky way has tufts of dust, gas and stars in its spiral shape, and this shows the bands at their southernmost perch in August. There are at least 50 eye candy nebula, clusters, and other dark nebule in this view.

Here's what I worked on this weekend. The Summer Southern Milky Way! Using Canon R6, 70mm Zoom Lens @f/5.6, ISO 6400. A stack of 45sx10 frames, tracked on a Sky Guider. The data was captured at Cherry Springs State Park on 8/26. #astrophotography #astronomy #milkyway 🔭📷🌌 #stilllearning

Fantastic Scope. I observed through a club members 20" New Moon Telescope. Great to access to such optics!!!

Here is a wide field shot I took at Cherry Springs Star Party back in June. Just getting around to processing it. Shows a lot of the dynamic of a star party... Canon Ra mirrorless, f2.8,15s, ISO 6400. #astrophotography #astronomy 🔭📷🌌

I was fortunate enough to see it at Cherry Spring State Park this weekend. Indeed could pick it out visually. A great site. And Congrats!!!