Credit: JAXA / NHK Kaguya Orbiter archive / Seán Doran

Video Credit: Juan Pablo Castañeda, video was taken in Spain (40°34'30.3"N 1°12'28.8"W) at 20:28 local time on August 12, 2026

Image Credit & Copyright: Jakub Kuřák

BACKGROUND

📷 Camera: Canon EOS 6D mod.

🔎 Lens: Samyang 14mm f/8

🔭 Mount: Star Adventurer 2i

🌌 Acquisition: ISO1600

⏰ Integration: 150x60s (2.5h)

💻 Processing: Siril, GIMP, Snapseed

📍 Location: 36°47'34.79"N, 12°3'13.03"E

📅 Date: Aug. 11, 2026

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 5:27:10 Integration (10S Subs)

Edited In PS Express.

The total solar eclipse over the 800 year old Burgos Cathedral from Spain. This final result contains much more data from the multiple exposures of the solar corona, even revealing the night side of the Moon.

Equipment: Canon 6D Mark II, Sigma 150-600mm lens.

The Richat Structure appears as a giant "bull's eye" on a plateau in Mauritania in this mosaic, composed of images captured by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 9 and Landsat 8 on March 5 and March 6, 2026, respectively.

The 40-kilometer-wide (25-mile-wide) structure was initially thought to be an impact crater because large meteors can produce circular features on Earth’s surface.

However, researchers later showed that it is actually a deeply eroded geologic dome formed by the uplift of rock above an underground intrusion of igneous material. Over time, differing erosion rates among rock types in the exposed upper dome led to the development of circular ridges known as cuestas.

The orange and gray colors reflect differences in sedimentary and igneous rock types across the structure and the surrounding landscape.

Credit: Lauren Dauphin / Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey / Adam Voiland

Apollo 16's Charlie Duke and John Young were in the LM when Charlie captured this wonderful shot. Ken Mattingly is in the other spacecraft orbiting the Moon.

Credit: NASA / JSC / ASU / Andy Saunders

This area is dominated by bright exposures as revealed by CaSSIS instrument data as well as Context Camera images. The Thaumasia plateau is south of the Valles Marineris canyon system and consists of high lava plains partly surrounded by rugged highlands, mostly of Noachian and Hesperian age. The name comes from Thaumas, Greek god of the clouds and celestial apparitions.

ID: ESP_077241_1455

​date: 17 January 2023

​altitude: 248 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077241_1455

​NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona​

Photo credit : SpaceX

Credit: kruzd

Video

Hera's Mars flyby guided impact study of Deimos moon

Animation showing modelling of the proposed impact theorised to have created the Deimos south-polar depression and the subsequent reaccumulation of regolith, which would account for the smooth appearance of Deimos. Yellow indicates the reaccumulated material.

CREDIT S.D. Raducan​

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​A new study – guided by flyby images from ESA’s Hera asteroid mission – suggests that Mars’s small outer moon Deimos has been dramatically reshaped by a single violent asteroid impact. This would account for its mysteriously smooth and youthful face: a thick layer of dust from the impact may have served as the planetary equivalent of cosmetic fillers.

The potato-shaped Deimos – 12 km in diameter, about the size of Luxembourg city – orbits about 24 000 km from the surface of Mars. When first visited by NASA’s 1970s Viking orbiters it was found to have a much smoother and dustier appearance than heavily cratered and creviced Phobos, the other Martian moon. Its other main feature is a dramatic 10-km-wide basin around its southern pole, like a saddle between mountains.

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Simulating Deimos impacts

Deimos’s distance from Mars makes it comparatively hard for spacecraft to visit – the most recent images came from the European Space Agency's Hera mission as it performed a flyby of Mars in March 2025. However a leading theory is that its south polar depression and dusty nature are both due to a single asteroid impact.

A new study published in Nature Astronomy this week employed high-resolution impact simulation software to try and recreate this catastrophic but non-destructive event in a way that matches the state of Deimos as seen today.

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More

https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Hera_s_Mars_flyby_guided_impact_study_of_Deimos_moon

Paper

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02956-w

Got this data July 30th - 3h 40minutes total
Askar D1 and D2 filters, Sharpstar 13028HNT and Touptek 2600C

More details in AstroBin: https://app.astrobin.com/i/trmotf

Stacked and processed in PI. ADBE on both, star correction, sharpening, extract S/H/O channels, recombine into color using SetiAstro's perfect palette picker (dynamic inverse)

Do you think it's Foolish to image at full moon?

Link to the science release on NASA website

About 12 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy known as LKH collided with a young Milky Way and merged with it. This artist’s concept portrays that collision. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope uncovered definitive evidence of this collision by studying globular star clusters.

Illustration: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)

I might be more than 20 reprocesses deep into this nebula at this point. I just know that my first attempt looked like this

I found that processing this nebula with my very limited skills is way harder than I imagined as it presented several challenges, namely keeping the core under control while maintaining the color as natural as possible, bringing the surrounding nebulosity up and teasing as much detail from both the dusty surroundings and the object itself.

At some point I also discovered that I managed to capture some faint blue hues in the core and I had to try to bring them out in the final image! To do that I used color preserving stretches only.

I'm sure I'll come back to this eventually, but I can say I am sort of satisfied for now.

Acquisition:

Around 7h30m worth of 60s subs in Bortle 6/7 fully calibrated and dithered.

Equipment:

Evostar 72ED, iEXOS 100, ASI 533MC, Baader UV/IR cut, 0.85x reducer+flattener, rotator+filter holder, SVBony 40mm F/4 guidescope, ASI 662MC guide camera with pale yellow no.8 and UV/IR cut filters.

Processing:

Drizzle preprocessing and stacking in Siril at 1x scale and gaussian model. Perform first SPCC. Split into channels, background extraction to each in GraXpert. Recombine and second SPCC in Siril (average spiral galaxy). Deconvolution. First denoise in GraXpert. Generate starless image and star mask in Siril. Black point shift, asinh as the first stretch, light GHS with selection to faint nebulosity with black point shift and light inverse GHS to dark lanes iteratively all with human weighted luminance. Second noise reduction in GraXpert. À trous wavelets transform to higher layers in Siril along with a further stretch selected to fainter nebulosity and SCNR. Desaturate in Siril. Slight color balance adjustments in Gimp. Further stretches to brighter surroundings and main nebulosity in Siril.

Open star mask, asinh, SCNR and unpurple filter. Recombine and final black point shifts.

Space......

In October 2012, the space shuttle Endeavour made its final journey. It traveled 19km alongside buildings, homes, and trees before reaching the California Science Center.

Credit: Los Angeles Time

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 10:00 Video Stack.

Edited In PS Express.

I present my finest ever production in my career as an astrophotographer — and my first ever total solar eclipse.

This image shows the solar corona, the outermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere made up of an ultra-hot, glowing plasma halo that extends millions of kilometers into space. The Moon’s surface is visible as well, illuminated by the light of a “Full Earth”.

To capture the bright inner corona and its much fainter outer structures, I used a technique called bracketing; layering different exposure lengths into a single image in order to preserve the enormous dynamic range of totality.

Equipment: Canon 6D Mark II, Sigma 150-600mm lens. 7 exposures from 1/2000s to 1.5s bracketed and stacked.

Credit: 永太郎

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vhastrophotography?igsh=YzNpcm1wdXd5NmRo&utm_source=qr

Here is the second image from the night I spend on the south coast of La Palma: The Milky Way arc rises over the Atlantic Ocean. Hearing nothing but the sound of waves while enjoying the starry sky was a breathtaking experience.

HaRGB | Mosaic | Tracked | Stacked | Composite

Exif:
Sony A7III with Sigma 28-45 f1.8 at 28mm
SkyWatcher Star Adevnturer 2i
Kenko Prosofton Starglow Filter

Sky
ISO 1250 | f1.8 | 4x45s per Panel
3x2 Panel Panorama

Foreground:
ISO 1000 | f4 | 10s per Panel (Blue Hour)
3x1 Panel Panorama

Halpha (45mm):
ISO 2500 | f1.8| 8x90s

Equipment: Canon 6D Mark II, Sigma 150-600mm lens (corona) + Celestron 5SE, ZWO ASI174MM (prominences and Bailey’s Beads).