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Thor's Helmet from last night. HOO with RGB stars.

Full res and capture details: https://app.astrobin.com/i/0dabka

#astronomy #astrophotography

A field of stars with a bright cloud of blue and red gas that resembles Thor's winged helmet

How about one of just the rings??

📷 :https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA08361

#Saturn #SolarSystem #astrophotography #space #science #NASA #astronomy #planets

The image shows the rings of Saturn from a top-down perspective against a pitch-black backdrop. The overexposed planet has been removed. The rings form a broad, oval shape occupying most of the frame, with varying tones of gold, beige, and dark brown. The rings have a smooth texture, with distinct lines representing different rings. A large shadow from the removed Saturn cuts diagonally across the bottom right section of the rings, creating a strong contrast between light and dark.

M22 and the Wanderers
Credits: Damian Peach
#nature #space #astrophotography

2026 February 17

Tails of Comet Wierzchoś
* Image Credit & Copyright: José J. Chambó
https://cometografia.es/acerca-de/jose-chambo/mi-perfil-my-profile/
* Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sci/bio/cecilia.bertonimarthahadlerchirenti
https://www.nasa.gov/
https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/
https://www.astro.umd.edu/people/cecilia-chirenti
https://cresst2.umd.edu/

Explanation:
Some comets are regular guests of our solar neighborhood, others come by only once, never to return. We won’t have another chance to see Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchoś), which is currently making its way through the inner Solar System. The hyperbolic orbit of this comet indicates that it will likely become an interstellar traveler. Comet Wierzchoś is today near its closest approach to the Earth, passing roughly the same distance from the Earth as is the Sun. The featured 30-minute exposure was taken last week in Chile and shows a 5-degree long ion tail as well as three shorter dust tails. The green hue of the coma comes from the breakdown of dicarbon molecules by sunlight, but that process does not last long enough to also tinge the tails. On the far right lies a spiral galaxy far in the distance: NGC 300.
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240808.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2024_E1_(Wierzcho%C5%9B)
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_trajectory
https://cosmoquest.org/x/365daysofastronomy/2026/01/18/jan-18th-ultra-distant-comet-c-2024-e1-wierzchos/
https://astro.vanbuitenen.nl/comet/2024E1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220206.html
https://science.nasa.gov/sun/
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/comets/en/anatomy-of-a-comet.en.jpg
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250126.html
https://www.science.org/content/article/why-do-some-comets-glow-green
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2023/11/Structure_of_a_comet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomic_carbon
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUCOEePIcAAht9h.jpg
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2113315118
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/galaxies/types/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241202.html

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260217.html

#space #comets #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #ESA #education #apod

2026 February 17
A star field shows a bright comet with its head on the lower left and tails extending toward the upper right. A background galaxy is visible on the far right.

Tails of Comet Wierzchoś
* Image Credit & Copyright: José J. Chambó
* Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)

Explanation:
Some comets are regular guests of our solar neighborhood, others come by only once, never to return. We won’t have another chance to see Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchoś), which is currently making its way through the inner Solar System. The hyperbolic orbit of this comet indicates that it will likely become an interstellar traveler. Comet Wierzchoś is today near its closest approach to the Earth, passing roughly the same distance from the Earth as is the Sun. The featured 30-minute exposure was taken last week in Chile and shows a 5-degree long ion tail as well as three shorter dust tails. The green hue of the coma comes from the breakdown of dicarbon molecules by sunlight, but that process does not last long enough to also tinge the tails. On the far right lies a spiral galaxy far in the distance: NGC 300.

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Feb 16th views

#moon
#astronomy
#crescentmoon
#lunarpics
#photography
#astrophotography
#smartphoneastronomy

https://youtube.com/shorts/2BTGtYGEuuc?si=1uhx9jcZ8l3ns2uU

The Orion Nebula.

#astrophotography #orionnebula #sweden #orion #nebula

How do people here feel about smart scopes?

https://lemmy.zip/post/59232229

Ringed Planet Uranus
Credits: Obs. Paris, ESO-Chile, ESO
#nature #space #astrophotography

#Astrophotography

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/awards-and-competitions/it-looks-like-a-jellyfish-but-its-not-its-the-remains-of-an-exploding-star-this-photo-looks-straight-out-of-star-trek?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into DOF (DEPTH-OF-FIELD) @dof-depth-of-field-nndflip

#Astrophotography

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/reviews/novastar-scarlet-a62q-62mm-f-8-4?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into DOF (DEPTH-OF-FIELD) @dof-depth-of-field-nndflip

#FotoVorschlag 'Dinge die mit 'M' beginnen', der Planet Mars.

#Planet
#Astrophotography

16-02-2026 Image Of The Day
https://app.astrobin.com/u/LukaszZak77@@@?i=z7w63a#gallery
New moon 3% at sunset 20/01/2026 by Łukasz Żak
#astrophotography

Unexplained Shocks Around a White Dwarf Star

How is RXJ0528+2838 creating such shock waves? A recently discovered white dwarf star, the farther left of the two largest white spots, RXJ0528+2838, was found 730 light-years away from Earth. Most stars, when done fusing nuclei in their cores for energy, become red giant stars, the cores of which live on as faint dense white dwarfs that slowly cool down for the rest of time.

#astrophotography
#WhiteDwarves
#ShockWaves
#APOD

White dwarfs are so dense that the only thing that stops them from collapsing further is quantum mechanics. In about 5 billion years, our Sun will become a white dwarf, too. The featured image, obtained with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, shows unexplained bow shocks around RXJ0528+2838, similar to the bow wave of water around a fast-moving ship. Astronomers don’t yet know what is powering these shocks, which have existed for at least 1,000 years. The red, green and blue colors represent trace amounts of glowing hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen gas.

Image Credit: ESO, K. Iłkiewicz & S. Scaringi et al.;
Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)

#FotoVorschlag
“Objekte die mit ‘M’ beginnen” / Starting with “M”

The moon (and its ghosts) as seen through my telescope, before I could achieve the proper exposure and focus.

#photography #astrophotography #moon

A view of the moon through a telescope eyepiece, appearing at lower left as a blown-out, glowing white ball that illuminates the clouds around it. Slightly overlapping it is a ghostly blue duplicate image of itself. Further off at upper right is another duplicate image, dimmer with a green hue. The entire scene is framed by the illuminated circular rim of the eyepiece.

Makemake of the Outer Solar System
Credits: European Southern Observatory
#nature #space #astrophotography

Heart nebula (IC1805) - an emission nebula from constellation Cassiopeia at 7500 ly - captured on Valentine’s night.

Total exposure for this image was just under 2 hours (23 × 5 min).
#astrophotography #astronomy

The Moon

@FotoVorschlag 'Objekte die mit "M" beginnen oder so aussehen... ' #FotoVorschlag

Taken on 2013-02-18 20:02:29 with Canon 7D on Orion xt10g with exposure 1/80s @ f4.7 @ 1200mm @ 100 ISO prime focus

Critiques welcome. Thank you for taking the time to look at my photo.

#Photography #AmateurPhotography #MyPhoto #astronomy #AstroPhotography #CanonPhotography #Massachusetts #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #PhotoCritique

The moon fills the frame. Half is visible.
© Tom Goetz. All rights reserved. Training an AI on this image is expressly forbidden.

A Lunar Eclipse will occur on March 3rd early in the morning for the USA. Here is a time table for EST viewing.

#lunareclipse2026
#moon
#astronomy
#fullmoon
#lunarpics
#photography
#astrophotography
#smartphoneastronomy

It’s been terrible here in the southern UK for any amateur #Astronomy or #Astrophotography. Persistent rain. Cloud. Just awful. I was hoping to try and see if I could get a shot of the Zodiacal light… I may possibly get a chance this week… maybe. I’ve had one crap view of Orion. Been utterly utterly rubbish. Anyhoo.

The Milky Way’s glistening band 🤩

In this image captured at Paranal, one of the Auxiliary Telescopes of our Very Large Telescope in #Chile is still asleep, with its spherical dome closed.

But overhead, the night is wide awake and the Milky Way stretches brilliantly across the sky, putting on a stunning show!

📷 A. Trigo/ESO

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #astrophotography

#AstroPhotography

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