Another cool thing about this photo is that the ISS appears between the Apollo 12 and 14 landing sites, just to its left and right, respectively.

I was literally just looking at M13 for the first time early this morning and my image of it from last May shows up in my feed later on. I love globular clusters and this one looks so good in a decent sized telescope

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Back before the Hubble Telescope, they literally had to put Edwin Hubble inside a big ass telescope. And before the memeverse posed the question “Can you lick the science,” in the days before CMOS/CCD sensors, imaging was done on glass photographic plates… (continued)

23 hours old, 1.1% crescent, setting over the ridge this evening.

I got to see one of my older ones a couple weeks ago, from about twenty years ago. My mom had it in her house for a long time, and it’s in my sister and brother-in-law’s house now.

One hour time lapse of #Jupiter last night with Io and its shadow transiting. #space #planets

Jupiter, early Monday morning. 8” f/6 Newtonian, 3x Barlow, ZWO ASI224mc

3i/ATLAS… Looks like a comet to me 8” f/6 Newtonian, Canon t3i #3iatlas #comet #space

Messier 74, the Phantom #Galaxy. 100 billion stars, 85,000 light years across, 32 million light years away. A large portion of our own galaxy is between it and us, so there is a lot of dust in the way, making difficult to see, hence the name. 8” f/6 Newt. Canon t3i 240x 60 seconds #astrophotography

Messier 33, the Triangulum #Galaxy 6” f/4 Newtonian, homemade EQ mount, ra drive only, no guiding. Canon t3i (modified) 50x 120 seconds #astrophotography #space

Time lapse of C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) Friday, Oct. 31, 19:00-19:30 UTC-5 Really cool to see the movement of the tail. That’s about 100,000 kilometers of it in frame, and this is a half hour in 2 minute segments. Solar wind not messing around. #comet #Lemmon

Messier 2, globular clusters. One of the largest, at 175,000 light years across, but at 55,000 light years distance, it appears considerably smaller than many others.

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Jupiter with two of its moons and their shadows. Left-right: Europa, Io, Io’s shadow, Europa’s shadow.

Last Titan shadow transit until 2038. Titan will continue to transit every 16 days through January, but its shadow will miss the planet. In this image, it is at the very top edge, with Titan below and to the right. I was actually able to see Titan this time. Last time I could only see the shadow.

Neptune and Triton, September 20 8” f/6 Newtonian, 3x Barlow, ZWO ASI224MC

Transit of Titan and its shadow across the northern polar region of Saturn.

From Monday night… #Saturn with its Titan, its largest moon casting its shadow on the #planet. Dione is off to the left, and Tethys to the right, under the rings.

Mark your calendars! Save the date! August 31rd will be the super ultra rare BEIGE MOON!! A beige moon is the second first quarter moon of a month beginning with the letter A; a very auspicious event, the likes of which have not been witnessed since the last time it occurred!

Saturn last night or early this morning depending on what you call 3am.

Messier 8, the Lagoon Nebula. I did this in short exposures to better show open cluster NGC 6530, at left, and small but bright Hourglass Nebula at right, with the star Herschel 36. 8” f/6 Newtonian, Canon t3i

Moon amongst the Pleiades… clockwise from upper left: Asterope, Taygeta, Celaeno, Electra, Merope, and Alcyone, with Pleione and Atlas further below. Maia is occulted here, in the middle. Canon M200, Zeiss 2.8/180, 3x teleconverter. Single 1 second exposure at iso1600

M22, my favorite globular cluster #astrophotography #space

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Messier 13, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. Several hundred thousand stars in a mass 170 light years across, 22,200 light years away. Canon t3i, 8” f/6 Newtonian. #astrophotography #stars #space

Globular cluster M5 24,500 light years away in the western portion of Serpens. #astrophotography #stars

Mars and the Beehive cluster through hazy skies last night; the only break in the weather I have had to photograph them together. #astrophotography #stars

Tonight’s full #PinkMoon in Virgo rising above the ridge with Spica. I used a modified dslr for this, with the stock uv/ir cut filter on the sensor removed, so it picks up wavelengths down into near-infrared, imparting a pink hue to everything, which seemed appropriate. #PhotoHour #witchy

Messier 44, the Beehive Cluster, ~600 light years away. Can be seen unaided as a faint fuzzy patch of light in the heart of Cancer. #astrophotography #stars #soace

Ok so the #tdov thing I don’t want to be visible today Please do not perceive me. Oh geez not again. *waveform collapses* Bastards

Messier 81, Bode’s Galaxy. 12 million light years away. #space #astrophotography

#Venus at inferior conjunction, 1% illuminated. This is 8 degrees away from the sun; the width of a hand held at arm’s length. Don’t try this at home, kids.

Sad to say that Freeman Vines has passed. I am known for using reclaimed materials in my work, but not nearly to the degree and depth that he did. If you are not familiar with him or his story, I recommend checking him out. A true legend.

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Tonight’s total #lunareclipse at the peak of umbral phase. #photohour

Hera and I photographed #Mars last night. #astronomy #esa

Venus and Mercury this evening

Another nice one from Friday of the 1.2% crescent #moon #photohour

#Moon and #Venus at similar phase last night. Over the next week, the Moon will be getting fuller, while Venus wanes as it approaches inferior conjunction later this month.

One day old waxing crescent #moon at 1.2% illumination, with Mercury yesterday evening

#Mercury (upper right) and #Saturn (lower left) setting over the ridge last night. Part of the much hyped #PlanetaryParade some may have missed. I had to hike way up the hill behind my house to catch it, but well worth it.

IC 410, the Tadpoles Nebula, named for the two brighter structures seen at its upper edge.

You: the Horsehead Nebula. Me, an intellectual: The Loch Nebulous Monster! Just a quick one hour session to try out the 80mm f/7 refractor I got a week ago, once the obligatory clouds finally cleared up for a bit. Camera is Canon t3i with Ha mod.

From a couple years ago, the #ISS passing in front of the #Moon, with Copernicus crater above, Mare Insularum below

Waxing crescent #moon, waning crescent #Venus last Monday.

Close up of the Trapezium in the core of the Orion Nebula. Single 5 second exposure with my planetary setup at 3600mm focal length.

Decided to try the 3x Barlow tonight, pushing the focal length up to 4800mm at f/24 and did better than I had expected. Actually this is the most detail I’ve gotten on Mars so far. Elysium Mons visible as a whitish spot upper right. 8” f/8 Newtonian, 3x Barlow, ZWO ASI224mc.