Another UFO (unidentified frying object) photo with Jupiter above. Pollux and Castor above Jupiter. Sirius off to the left.
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Our Moon, two days before Full. And the launch of Atremis II. The impressive crater, Tycho is in the moon's lower right with rays that radiate away far across the moon. Many many other craters, large and small, visibly pock the surface. Dark circular areas of 'seas' called Mare, are huge craters filled with lava flows from long long ago. The moon is illuminates from the upper right, with only a slim section to the lower left still unlit.
I had to get an image of the moon tonight, because due to local weather, I probably will not have an opportunity to take a picture of the full moon for the launch of Artemis II. So here's tonight's moon!
#Moon #Luna #📷 #🌔 #Photography #ECK #BackyardAstronomy #Oregon
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La #GoldenHandle sulla Luna è un suggestivo fenomeno di luce e ombra. Si verifica quando i raggi solari illuminano i Monti Jura, creando un arco luminoso che spicca contro il Sinus Iridum, ancora in ombra, apparendo come un manico dorato sul terminatore. #backyardastronomy #astrophotography
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A close image of the moon in the blue daytime sky. The moon phase is just past half heading toward full. This was taken on March 26, 2026. The sunlit face of the Moon is facing the upper right. Many many craters are visible all over the surface, along with large circular dark areas known as 'seas', or Mare.
If it's visible where you are, go look at the Moon.
We've got a really nice one!
#Moon #Luna #📷 #🌔 #Photography #ECK #BackyardAstronomy #Oregon 🔭 🧪
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Uno che come nickname ha corax, non può che avere la costellazione #Corvus come riferimento.
#backyardastronomy #astrophotography
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#WDEFNews12 #Skyblog12 #BackyardAstronomy -- A leftover piece of some military rocketry from 1990 will be just visible in the southern viewing area skaies from 9:30 PM EDT to near 9:36 PM when it will fade as it approaches Jupiter in the constellation Gemini.
#KeepLookingUp
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#WDEFNews12 #Skyblog12 #BackyardAstronomy -- A leftover piece of some military rocketry from 1990 will be just visible in the southern viewing area skaies from 9:30 PM EDT to near 9:36 PM when it will fade into Earth's shadow as it approaches bright planet Jupiter in the constellation Gemini. #KeepLookingUp
#WDEFNews12 #Skyblog12 #BackyardAstronomy -- A leftover piece of some military rocketry from 1990 will be just visible in the southern viewing area skaies from 9:30 PM EDT to near 9:36 PM when it will fade as it approaches bright planet Jupiter in the constellation Gemini.
#KeepLookingUp
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A photo of the partially eclipsed moon, with just a sliver at it's lower right still in sunlight and overexposed with no detail. The rest of the moon is a gradient of increasing reddish color across it's middle, and very dark in it's upper left. Even as dark as it is, features are still visible, such as craters and dark seas or mare. Even some large craters are visible still. The moon is still in a segment of the Earth's shadow called the "Penumbra", Latin for 'almost shadow'. The deepest dark portion of the Earths shadow is called the "Umbra", Latin for 'shadow'. In the penumbra, direct sunlight no longer reaches the moon to reflect back strongly, as in the bright part to the lower right of the moon. The light that reflects back to us is refracted, or bent through our atmosphere, and are longer redder wavelengths. Like the light from all the Earth's sunsets and sunrises coloring the moon. A light haze of cloud is visible all around the moon, and a few faint stars shine in the blacker areas around the edges of the cloudiness.
I've found it's best to include clouds in scenes I decide to photograph. I mean, this is the PNW after all... 🌧️
(See alt for some Lunar eclipse shadow details)
I had today off 😴
#LunarEclipse #Moon #Eclipse #Penumbra #PNW #PDX #EastCoastKin #ALLTheSunsets
#Astrophotography #📷 🧪 🔭 #BackyardAstronomy
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A close up photo of a partially eclipse moon, with just a sliver at it's lower right still in sunlight and overexposed with no detail. The rest of the moon is a gradient of increasing reddish color across it's middle, and very dark in it's upper left. Even as dark as it is, gestures are still visible, such as craters and dark seas or mare. Even some large craters are visible still. A light haze of cloud is visible all around the moon.
That's about as good as it got, before the opaque clouds rolled in!
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I'm glad I got to see as much as I did! It looks like it was a really nice ruddy eclipse this time!
#LunarEclipse #Moon #Eclipse #Penumbra #PNW #PDX #EastCoastKin
#Astrophotography #📷 🧪 🔭 #BackyardAstronomy
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The "Eyes of Clavius" watching me and, extra, the "Rupes recta"
#moon #backyardastronomy #clairobscure #astrophotography
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24.II.2026 first quarter moon
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Ptolomaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel craters
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A deep space astrophotograph of the Heart Nebula IC1805 on the bottom and the Soul Nebula IC1848 on top, 7500 light years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. This image uses 13 hours of capture time over two nights in Dec. 2025. ZWO 2600McDuo camera, Askar FMA180Pro telescope, SvBony SV220 dual narrowband filter, Skywatcher GTI mount, AsiAir controller. Stacking and post processing with Siril and Photoshop.
Happy Valentine's Day!
The Heart and Soul nebulas in the constellation Cassiopeia.
13 hours of imaging over 2 nights in Dec. 2025
#happyvalentinesday
#astrophotography #astro #astronomy #deepsky
#nebula #heartnebula #soulnebula
#backyardastronomy #zwo #siril #askar #mgerspix
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This week on Star Trails:
Why the night sky moves the way it does.
We talk rotation, orbits, retrograde motion, the Moon’s strange behavior, drifting stars, and why constellations are only temporary patterns.
Look up. You’re already in motion!
#astronomy #stargazing #nightSky #backyardAstronomy
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A photo of the gas giant planet Jupiter. Prominently featured are its Northern and Southern equatorial dark cloud bands, contrasting with much lighter colored equator clouds, and lighter areas toward the poles at top and bottom. The planet occupies the center of the image in a circular area that you could cover with your finger. The rest of the image is dark black. I could have waited another hour or more to wait for the Great Red Spot to rotate into view on the face of the planet, but my feet and hands were getting numb from the cold out on this night. 🥶
Last night was full of technical foibles and follies. 🤪 But considering this was the first telescopic astro session after moving, I'll take it! #Jupiter and its equatorial dark cloud bands.
#Astrophotography #📷 #🔭 #planet #SolarSystem #EastCoastKin #BackyardAstronomy #Astronomy #Stunday
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A night sky photo full of stars. The brightest one sits above center left, and is many times brighter than the next brightest. It is not a star, but the gas giant planet Jupiter. At this resolution and field of view, Jupiter's moons are not visible. There is a small star next to Jupiter at about it's 6 o'clock position. The two brightest stars of the constellation Gemini are at top center, and at top center right. The one at top center is Pollux, and the one to the right is Castor. Tracing a line down from them each, roughly parallel to the bottom of the image toward the left, there are two "foot" stars for each twin. The left one, roughly middle lower left center is bluer, and almost directly to the right is a redder one, just right of bottom center. If you can see toward almost the bottom right corner, there is a fuzzy, or blurry patch, which is a distant tight cluster of stars associated with each other. Known to astronomers as M35, or The Shoe-Buckle Cluster, because it is where one of the twins shoes might be imagined. It is almost 3,000 light years away. And right below it is another fuzzy patch, though much dimmer. It is another smaller star cluster (NGC 2158), and it looks smaller and dimmer because it is nearly 12,000 light years away. All the many stars visible in this image are within our Milky Way Galaxy
Jupiter in the constellation #Gemini!
Guess which one #Jupiter is!
Stacked images totaling 6 minutes exposure at 250 ISO.
#📷#🔭#Astrophotography #BackyardAstronomy #Stars #NightSky #Pollux #Castor #LookUp
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A close up photo of a star studded night sky with several prominent bright stars toward the center of the image. This is The Pleiades star cluster. Called "The Seven Sisters", and many other names in different cultures around the world that have seen it through our shared history. Though the whole image contains stars all over, the main stars at center are brightest, and stand out easily. Roughly, seven of them form a small close group that is shaped like a small ladle with s very short handle with two stars at the end of the handle. The opposite side of the ladle cup has two stars at the tip of the cups right hand tip. The Pleiades cluster has far more than just seven stars that astronomers have found are truly associated with the cluster. The total number is likely in excess of 1,000 members. Only a handful are actually visible. The main stars we see in this image are hot young stars that are a characteristic blue color. There is also some faint wispy nebulosity visible. The nebulosity is not part of the cluster, but caused by some interstellar gas in the light path to us. The stars that show the nebulosity the best are the inner, upper right side cup rim star, and the lower left bottom cup base. Longer exposures and filtered light images can capture much more diffuse dust and gas. Other colors that can be seen in stars around the main cluster are reddish and yellow to orange. Between all the stars is deep dark background.
The Pleiades, from last night (1-16-26).
This is a combination of 11 - 60 second images, so a total of 11 minutes of exposure. The ISO was 200. Processed and edited in Sequator and LRc.
#📷 #Astrophotography #NightSkyPhotography #Pleiades #EastCoastKin #BackYardAstronomy #Astronomy #Night #Sky
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Low-resolution backyard photograph of last night's Jupiter against a black sky, showing a small bright disk with faint atmospheric banding.
Jupiter, finally not just a dot.
First resolved planetary detail from my backyard.
#Photography #Astrophotography #Jupiter #Nightsky #BackyardAstronomy
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Photograph of the sunspot activity on 12/3/25 from Savannah, GA. Imaging details - OM-1 full spectrum, 150-400+1.25tc+1.4tc (700mm). Baader white light filter in front, a 720nm infrared clip-in filter in back. 1/4000, f9, iso 400, Handheld burst of 280+ frames with best 60 stacked in Siril, wavelet sharpen, finish in PS for color.
Sunspot activity today, 12/3/25
#sunspots #sun #solar #solarphotgraphy
#astrophotography #astronomy #backyardastronomy #astronomyphotography #space
#siril #OMSystem #mgerspix
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S̶u̶p̶e̶r̶luna d̶e̶l̶ c̶a̶s̶t̶o̶r̶o̶ di novembre
B̶e̶a̶v̶e̶r̶ November s̶u̶p̶e̶r̶moon
#astrophotography #backyardastronomy
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I tried to take a picture of Almach to see the partner star but my #dwarflabs 3 could not resolve it. #backyardastronomy
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M 15 Globular Cluster
Took this from my backyard with a #DwarfLabs 3. #backyardastronomy Suggested by #highpointscientific
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