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The planets of our Solar System (excluding Earth for obvious reasons), captured in 2020 and 2021 with an 80mm refractor and a DSLR. I enjoyed the journey of pushing this typical beginner setup to its limit for planetary imaging. I “graduated” to a C6 and a dedicated planetary camera in 2022, and I’m hoping to create another Solar System composite soon with the best images from that setup. Can't believe I forgot to upload this until now!
Camera: Canon T3i
Telescope: Explore Scientific ED80 f/6.0 Apochromatic Refractor
Barlow: Antares 3x Triplet Barlow (effective magnification is 4.932x for 2373mm focal length at f/29.66)
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G
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Mercury
Shot details: 5,000 x 1/30 second ISO200 (best of 56,792)
Date: 2020/11/07
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Venus
Shot details: 7,500 x 1/100 second ISO100 (best of 44,985)
Date: 2020/05/04
Location: Coral Springs, FL
Mars
Shot details: 200 x 1/50 second ISO100 (best of 10,455)
Date: 2020/10/15
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Jupiter
Shot details: 1,000 x 1/30 second ISO1600 (best of 6,305)
Date: 2021/08/19
Location: Coral Springs, FL
Saturn
Shot details (moons): 3,600 x 1/5 second ISO1600 (best of 5,062)
Shot details (planet): 2,000 x 1/30 second ISO6400 (best of 183,714)
Date: 2021/07/25 and 2021/08/01
Location: Coral Springs, FL
Uranus
Shot details (moons): 8 x 60 seconds ISO1600 (best of 36)
Shot details (planet): 3,000 x 1/5 second ISO6400 (best of 3,314)
Date: 2020/10/18
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Neptune
Shot details (moon): 7 x 60 seconds ISO1600 (best of 27)
Shot details (planet): 1,500 x 1/5 second ISO6400 (best of 1,884)
Date: 2020/11/08
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Io completes a transit of Jupiter. Video captured with a Mewlon 210 and processed with RegiStax. Around 10:00pm PDT and Jupiter at 25 degrees elevation.
“This Voyager 2 high resolution color image, taken 2 hours before closest approach, provides obvious evidence of vertical relief in Neptune's bright cloud streaks. These clouds were observed at a latitude of 29 degrees north near Neptune's east terminator. The linear cloud forms are stretched approximately along lines of constant latitude and the sun is toward the lower left. The bright sides of the clouds which face the sun are brighter than the surrounding cloud deck because they are more directly exposed to the sun. Shadows can be seen on the side opposite the sun. These shadows are less distinct at short wavelengths (violet filter) and more distinct at long wavelengths (orange filter). This can be understood if the underlying cloud deck on which the shadow is cast is at a relatively great depth, in which case scattering by molecules in the overlying atmosphere will diffuse light into the shadow. Because molecules scatter blue light much more efficiently than red light, the shadows will be darkest at the longest (reddest) wavelengths, and will appear blue under white light illumination. The resolution of this image is 11 kilometers (6.8 miles per pixel) and the range is only 157,000 kilometers (98,000 miles). The width of the cloud streaks range from 50 to 200 kilometers (31 to 124 miles), and their shadow widths range from 30 to 50 kilometers (18 to 31 miles). Cloud heights appear to be of the order of 50 kilometers (31 miles). This corresponds to 2 scale heights. The Voyager Mission is conducted by JPL for NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications.”
Above & image at:
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00058
Credit: JPL Photojournal website
And/or, with the photograph’s impeccable provenance, the description possibly used in Mr. Burgess’s book “Far Encounter: The Neptune System”:
“Figure 4-6: Taken two hours before the spacecraft’s closest approach to Neptune, this image shows vertical relief in the cloud streaks. The linear cloud forms are stretched approximately along lines of constant latitude, and the Sun is toward the lower left. The bright sides of the clouds which face the Sun are brighter than the surrounding cloud deck because they are more directly exposed to the sun. Shadows can be seen on the side opposite the Sun. These shadows are less distinct at short ultraviolet wavelengths because they are cast on a lower cloud deck and scattering of light by the atmosphere above them diffuses light into the shadow. The shadows are darkest when observed in red light because molecules scatter the longer waves of red light less than blue or ultraviolet light. The widths of the cloud streaks range from 30 to 125 miles (50 to 200 km) and their heights appear to be about 30 miles (50 km) above the main cloud deck.”
The image was also the cover of the 1990 issue of “NASA Spinoff” magazine, by James Haggerty.
Field is about 9 degrees wide. Canon T6i with 135mm lens. One second exposure at F/2.5, ISO 400. Photo taken at 18:35 PST on 2/10, or 02:35 UT on 2/11. Redondo Beach, CA 34 North, 118 West (about).
Saturn on May 14th 2020. My first try imaging Saturn this year. Couldn't quite get the colors right in the rings and could be because the Sun was rising when the data was captured. Seeing was average for my location with below average transparency and some light upper air winds at times.
Luna Menguando, procesado sobre referencia de crater Hadley C de 6 km de diametro, hay muchos crateres de 4 km que se distinguen. Son 130 imagenes Raw pasadas a tiff y postprocesadas como una imagen planetaria, quedo mas definida que los videos apilados de la misma noche.
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2011 Jan 16 - 16h32 UT -
exp.time : 1/500 sec - ISO 100 - focal: 300 mm -
no stacking - cccr exp50 p70
Enhanced RGB (another processing method) with F635, F546 and F437 filters
Image taken by Hope probe (Emirates Mars mission) : February 10, 2025.
Image credit : Emirates Mars mission/MBRSC/EXI/Thomas Thomopoulos
Our sun, like all other stars, generates its energy through nuclear fusion: inside it, 564 million tons of hydrogen are fused to 560 million tons of helium every second. The "missing" four million tons are radiated as energy. This is more energy per second than has been produced by our global civilization through the burning of fossil fuels since the beginning of industrialization !
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
Some images from my astronomical observations log book.
Obtained using my Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian, Tal 2x Barlow Lens & ZWO ASI 120MC Astronomical Imaging Camera.
Processed with Registax & G.I.M.P.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
Tripod mounted Canon SX160 IS at ISO 100, f5, 1/6s Zoom at 52mm.
Levels adjusted with G.I.M.P.
Poor seeing and light wind for this stacked exposure of Jupiter with red spot and moons. 8" Newtonian and 1.8X Barlow.
With C11 and ASI 290MC for crominance + QHY290Mono +IRPASS 685 for luminance.
Stack of 15000 frames. Captured in Tarragona, 09/28/2020 at 21:35 UT.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope had previously discovered two small moons — Nix and Hydra — orbiting Pluto alongside its larger moon Charon. They would add two more in 2011 and 2012, bringing the icy dwarf planet's total number of moons to five.
Astronomers using Hubble to research the Pluto system in advance of 2015's New Horizons flyby found two objects, P4 in 2011 and P5 in 2012. The two moons would later be renamed Kerberos and Styx, respectively. This image is annotated to show the orbits of Pluto's more recently discovered moons. P5 is circled.
The dwarf planet’s entire moon system is believed to have formed by a collision between Pluto and another planet-sized body early in the history of the solar system. The smashup flung material that coalesced into the family of moons observed around Pluto.
For more information, visit: hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2012-32
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute)
It's quite a gem. The current tilt of the rings is almost at a maximum, so we get a nice display!
What really hooked me on astrophotography in the first place was the realization and amazement of what can actually be imaged from our backyards. Most people don't even really think about it. The detail seen in amateur equipment these days is better than what an interplanetary spacecraft was able to send back to us only 40 years ago.
From where I live, Saturn doens't get more than 30 degrees above the horizon. Unfortunately it will be that way for years to come, so I just have to settle for shooting through a lot of air (which blurs detail).
To sort that convoluted mess out, shot of Saturn is actually a stack of 15,000 individual exposures. The files that went into this weigh in at 11 gigabytes. All for a subject that is 200 pixels across. I have to go hard drive shopping.
Shot on 06-JUN-2015.
Sky Watcher SK707AZ2 70mm f/10 + barlow 3X + super 10mm eyepiece. 6:35 UTC
I took a video with a sony W320 with 4x zoom, 273/431 frames used, EV+2,0, edited with Castrator, AS!2 and MS Picture Manager.
Titan: afocal, Xiaomi Redmi 11S 5G, ISO4000, 0,8s, f/1,8 4,3mm EV0.
Jupiter imaged on the evening of the 10.03.14. The volcanic satellite Io has been eclipsed by Jupiter`s shadow and reappeared just over an hour after this capture was acquired. None of the other Galilean satellites are visible within the frame. As usual there is much activity with Jupiter`s belts and zones.
From Aug 3rd, Saturn seems to tolerate poor seeing better than Mars or Jupiter. Mewlon 210, video frames stacked and processed with RegiStax,
The Mobil refinery is about 7 miles east of my house. The moon rising above the stacks where they burn off volatiles. 300mm zoom and Canon XSi.
Image taken during Apollo 17 mission
Credit : NASA/ASA/JSC/Arizona State University/Thomas Thomopoulos
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