Ethan Chappel
@chappelastro.com
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26-year old astrophotographer in Cibolo, TX, USA
https://www.chappelastro.com/
Jupiter on October 1st, 2025.
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Saturn with Tethys, Dione, and Rhea on September 2nd, 2025. 12 years to the night after my first shot of the ringed planet with an EdgeHD 8 and original USB 2.0 ASI120MM.
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4 days ago
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Jupiter was in the line of sight between us and the magnitude 7.9 star HD 61660 on October 13th, appearing as an interloper among the Galilean Moons. It's an orange star 25x more luminous than the Sun and 660 light years away. Europa had a very close pass from home.
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about 1 month ago
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Titan casting its shadow on Saturn on August 3rd, 2025. Tethys is also transiting just above the rings, but they were blocking the view its shadow.
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about 2 months ago
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Neptune and Triton on September 19th, 2025. Look carefully and you'll notice the subtle gradient from brighter in the south to darker in the north.
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about 2 months ago
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Jupiter on September 10th, 2025.
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2 months ago
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Uranus with several of its moons on August 30th, 2025.
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2 months ago
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Mars on November 17th, 2024.
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2 months ago
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Jupiter on September 3rd, 2025.
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2 months ago
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Saturn on August 29th, 2025.
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2 months ago
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Horsehead & Flame Nebulas with Alnitak, the bright star on the left of Orion's belt.
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3 months ago
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Jupiter with the Great Red Spot on August 29th, 2025.
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3 months ago
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Saturn on August 9th, 2025 with ring spokes to the left.
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3 months ago
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Jupiter with the Great Red Spot yesterday morning in visible light and near-infrared.
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3 months ago
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Jupiter this morning. Finally becoming viable to catch a decent image of it as it rises away from the morning twilight.
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4 months ago
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Venus on June 21st, 2025 in bi-color IR-UV to emphasize the cloud features in the atmosphere.
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5 months ago
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Saturn on June 21st, 2025.
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5 months ago
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A distant view of Mars on June 2nd, 2025, over 2.5x farther than it was at its closest approach in January. Clouds can be seen over Olympus Mons just right of center and the three Tharsis volcanoes to the lower-right of it.
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6 months ago
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Venus on June 1st, 2025 in false-color IR-UV to enhance features in the cloudtops.
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6 months ago
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Saturn on June 1st, 2025. The rings are continuing to brighten as they open towards the Sun.
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6 months ago
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Saturn is back in the morning sky but something looks different. Just a few days after equinox, it's autumn in the north & spring in the south. The dark line cutting across the planet are the rings, not their shadow. They are very dark when sunlight hits them at a shallow angle.
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6 months ago
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Transit of
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WD 1856+534 b across its white dwarf host star. An unusual system where we see a small white dwarf star partially occulted by a giant planet every 1.4 days, resulting in a much deeper decrease in brightness than most exoplanet transits.
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6 months ago
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#Jupiter
with the Great Red Spot on September 25th, 2024.
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7 months ago
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#Saturn
and Rhea from July last year.
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7 months ago
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#Mars
on December 20th, 2024 with some clouds over the north polar cap.
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8 months ago
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Full Moon Photobomber Two years after catching a previous lunar occultation of Mars before clouds rolled in, I had another chance in January to catch one and create a Moon mosaic as I originally planned to provide a sense of scale.
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8 months ago
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#Jupiter
on December 19th, 2024 near zenith. Uncharacteristically not terrible conditions for this time of year.
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11 months ago
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What's interesting about this little speck in the night sky? It is Ceres, the only
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in the asteroid belt and only object there massive enough for gravity to shape it into a sphere.
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12 months ago
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#Jupiter
with the GRS on November 13th, 2024 through decent seeing. Also barely visible far to the right is the new SEB outbreak.
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about 1 year ago
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New eruption in the South Equatorial Belt of
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captured on November 12th. This is likely to spread across the belt over the next few months.
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about 1 year ago
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on August 2nd, 2024.
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about 1 year ago
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Aurora Borealis timelapse captured from Bulverde, Texas on the evening of October 10th, 2024.
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about 1 year ago
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Lagoon & Trifid
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taken at South Llano River State Park. Clouds blocked the sky when the public was present for the night's outreach event, but cleared for some time after they left. This was my first time using the Esprit 100ED under a dark sky.
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about 1 year ago
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Will we see a second naked-eye comet this month? This is C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), discovered by the ATLAS survey a few days ago. It will reach perihelion on October 28th, only a couple weeks after C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) reaches peak brightness and moves into the evening sky.
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about 1 year ago
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Horsehead Nebula taken during the 2022 Eldorado Star Party, hosted by X Bar Ranch.
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about 1 year ago
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Saturn with Dione on July 12th, 2024.
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over 1 year ago
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Mars on July 9th, 2024.
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over 1 year ago
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Saturn on July 9th, 2024.
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over 1 year ago
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Double transit of Io and Europa across Jupiter through tough conditions on July 6th, 2024.
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over 1 year ago
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Saturn on July 6th, 2024.
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over 1 year ago
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Mars on July 6th, 2024.
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over 1 year ago
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Saturn on July 5th, 2024.
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over 1 year ago
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Jupiter with the Great Red Spot on July 3rd, 2024.
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over 1 year ago
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Saturn on July 3rd, 2024.
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over 1 year ago
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Mars on July 3rd, 2024.
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over 1 year ago
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Saturn with Rhea to the left on July 2nd, 2024.
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over 1 year ago
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Jupiter on July 1st, 2024. The Equatorial Zone has a slight orange tinge to it.
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over 1 year ago
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Mars with Mare Cimmerium stretching across the southern hemisphere on July 1st, 2024.
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over 1 year ago
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Saturn through steady skies on July 1st, 2024.
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over 1 year ago
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A murky view of Jupiter on June 28th, 2024.
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over 1 year ago
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