Astrophotography

The Moon - 2016-01-19 20:14z by Paul Hutchinson, UK. Equipment: Skywatcher Maksutov 127mm, Nikon D60, Skywatcher AltAz.

Gallery Gibbous Moon

Moon by Nick, Milan, Italy. Equipment: Canon 760, 300mm lens.

Gallery Quarter Moon

NGC 6357 Lobster Nebula by Tom Bishton, Brisbane, Australia. Equipment: ED120 Refractor, AZEQ6 Mount, ST80 Guidescope, Canon modded 600D, Synguider

Gallery Lobster Nebula

Crescent Moon Nick Jackson, Doncaster, 9 March 2019 Equipment: Nikon P900 digital bridge camera

Gallery Crescent Moon

Sarah and Simon Fisher, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Sarah and Simon say:

Gallery Full Moon

Uranus by Voyager 2

Gallery Uranus

NGC 6914 Wide Field by Bob Franke, Chino Valley, AZ USA. Equipment: Takahashi FSQ-106ED, SBIG STF-8300M, Baader RGB, AstroDon Ha filter, Losmandy G11 mount.

Gallery NGC 6914

IC2944/8 The Running Chicken by David Trotter, Sydney, Australia. Equipment: Takahashi FSQ106n, Sbig sTL6303e, Astrodon narrow Band filters, AP900 Equatorial mount.

Gallery Running Chicken Nebula

Frosty white water ice clouds and swirling orange dust storms above a vivid rusty landscape reveal Mars as a dynamic planet in this sharpest view ever obtained by an Earth-based telescope. The Earth-orbiting Hubble telescope snapped this picture on June 26, when Mars was approximately 43 million miles (68 million km) from Earth - its closest approach to our planet since 1988. Hubble can see details as small as 10 miles (16 km) across. Especially striking is the large amount of seasonal dust storm activity seen in this image. One large storm system is churning high above the northern polar cap [top of image], and a smaller dust storm cloud can be seen nearby. Another large duststorm is spilling out of the giant Hellas impact basin in the Southern Hemisphere [lower right]. Acknowledgements: J. Bell (Cornell U.), P. James (U. Toledo), M. Wolff (Space Science Institute), A. Lubenow (STScI), J. Neubert (MIT/Cornell)

Gallery Mars

Image of Venus, observed in the 365nm waveband by the Venus Ultraviolet Imager (UVI) on board the Akatsuki probe. The observations were made on 6 May 2016, when the spacecraft saw the whole planet illuminated. J. Greaves / Cardiff University

Gallery Venus

A view of Jupiter and its moon Europa captured on 25 August 2020 by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team.

Gallery Jupiter

M35 and NGC 2158 by Jaspal Chadha, London, UK. Equipment: Skywatcher Espirt 100ED, QSI 690 CCD, Ioptron CEM60 Mount, LRGB.

Gallery Messier 35 and NGC 2158

M39 by William McSorley, Leeds, UK. Equipment: SW 150P Reflector, EQ5 GoTo Mount, QHY8L cooled CCD, SW ST80, Philips SPC900 webcam.

Gallery Messier 39

M37 Open Cluster by Ron Brecher, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Equipment: SBIG STL-11000M, Baader RGB filters, 10

Gallery Messier 37

M106 Spiral Galaxy by Mark Griffith, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK. Equipment: Teleskop service 12

Gallery Messier 106