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Ced 214 Nebula Daniel Zoliro, Chouteau, Oklahoma, USA, 21–26 August 2020 Equipment: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro camera, Astro-Tech AT115EDT refractor, Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro mount
Mars, Phobos and Deimos Harvey Scoot, Finchingfield, Essex, 14 September 2020 Equipment: ZWO ASI 462MC one-shot colour camera, Celestron EdgeHD 14-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain, Mesu-Mount 200
The Cygnus Wall Matthew Baker, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, 18-25 September 2020 Equipment: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro camera, TS-Optics 90mm apo refractor, Sky-Watcher HEQ5-Pro mount
The Crescent Nebula Jamie Macdougall, Ely, Cambridgeshire, 1-13 September 2020 Equipment: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro camera, Sky-Watcher Evostar 80ED DS-Pro refractor, Sky-Watcher NEQ6 Pro mount
Cycling to the Moon Susan Snow, Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire, 27 September 2020 Equipment: Canon 77D DSLR, Orion ShortTube 80 refractor, Orion AutoTracker mount
The Heart and Soul Nebulae Prabhakaran (Prabhu), Buraq and Mleiha, UAE, 14, 15 and 21 September 2020 Equipment: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro camera, Samyang 135mm f/2.8 lens, Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6 mount
NGC 5367 and CG12 Nicolas Rolland, August 2020 Equipment: SBIG STXL-11002 camera, PlaneWave 17” CDK astrograph, Paramount ME mount
The Triangulum Galaxy Emil Andronic, Bushey, August 2018 and September 2020 Equipment: Canon 600D DSLR, ZWO ASI 294MC Pro camera, TS65 quadruplet f6.5 imaging telescope, Sky-Watcher EQ3 mount
The Milky Way over Sicily Dario Giannobile, Punta Bianca, Sicily, 27 June 2020 Equipment: Canon 6D DSLR, Sigma 20mm lens, Manfrotto tripod
The Pacman Nebula David Mainwaring, Didcot, Oxfordshire, 25 September 2020 Equipment: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro camera, TS-Optics Photoline 107mm f/6.5 triplet apo, Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro mount
Pickering’s Triangle Nebula Trevor Searle, Surrey, 21 September 2020. Equipment: ZWO ASI 1600MM camera, Celestron C9.25 Schmidt-Cassegrain, Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6 GT mount
The Heart Nebula Derek Foster, Sheffield, 14 September 2020 Equipment: ZWO ASI 294MC Pro camera, TS-Optics Photoline 80mm f/6 triplet apo, Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro mount
Mars Luke Oliver, Bedford, 26 September 2020 Equipment: ZWO AI 178MM camera, Sky-Watcher Skyliner 400P Dobsonian
Bright and dark nebulae in Cepheus Terry Hancock, western Colorado, USA, 22 September 2020 Equipment: QHYCCD QHY410C camera, Takahashi E180 astrograph, Paramount GT1100S mount
Harvest Moon Stuart Green, Preston, 1 October 2020 Equipment: Nikon D5500 DSLR, Tecnosky 125mm f7.8 apo refractor
The Iris Nebula Nikola Milićev, Horgoš, Serbia, 15 August 2020 Equipment: Canon 1300D DSLR, Samyang 135mm f/2 lens, Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer mount
The Milky Way Parisa Bajelan, lake near Mount Sabalan, Iran, 12 August 202 Equipment: Canon 6D DSLR, 16-35 Canon lens
The Andromeda Galaxy James Downey, Ongar, Essex, 18 August and 9 September 2020 Equipment: ZWO ASI 533MC-Pro camera, William Optics RedCat 51 apo refractor, Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Pro mount
Eye On The Sky
Merging galaxies NGC 2799 (left) and NGC 2798 (right) HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, 23 OCTOBER 2020 IMAGE CREDIT ESA/Hubble & NASA, SDSS, J. Dalcanton, CC BY 4.0; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)
frEGGs (Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules) in J025157.5+600606 HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, 16 OCTOBER 2020 IMAGE CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sahai; CC BY 4.0
Martian craters found using artificial intelligence MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER, 1 OCTOBER 2020 CREDIT NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex touches down onto asteroid Bennu OSIRIS-REx, 20 OCTOBER 2020 CREDIT NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin
Soyuz MS-17 and Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus docked with the ISS INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, 18 OCTOBER 2020 CREDIT: NASA
Mosaic of the northern sky from TESS images TRANSITING EXOPLANET SURVEY SATELLITE (TESS), 5 October 2020 CREDIT: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (USRA)
TESS’s northern sky mosaic with constellations overlaid TRANSITING EXOPLANET SURVEY SATELLITE (TESS), 5 October 2020 CREDIT: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (USRA)
Massive binary protostar IRAS 16547-4247, growing in salty water vapour ATACAMA LARGE MILLIMETER/SUBMILLIMETER ARRAY (ALMA), 25 SEPTEMBER 2020 CREDIT ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tanaka et al.
Great Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, 9 OCTOBER 2020 CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team; CC BY 4.0 – Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)
Spiral galaxy NGC 5643 in the constellation of Lupus HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, 2 OCTOBER 2020 CREDIT ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.; CC BY 4.0; Acknowledgement: Mahdi Zamani
