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Moon • 16-04-2024

Montes Alpes and its shadows.

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC
🪞ADC ZWO
🪞 Powermate 2.5x

Saturn • 14-06-2024

Saturn and its moons Rhea, Titan, Tethys and Dione.

Very good seeing conditions, the planet was above 30 degrees and it’s starting to be a good time to photograph it 😃

We can clearly see the Cassini division (now with the current tilt of the rings is difficult to see)

I hope you like it! ❤️

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC
🪞ADC ZWO
🪞 Powermate 2.5x

Moon • 14-04-2024

Posidonius Crater + Apollo 17 landing site.

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC

Moon • 14-04-2024

Lacus Mortis + Bürg crater

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC

Saturn • 29-05-2024

First Saturn of the season/year 🎉

It is back again, but as you can see the rings are almost gone 🫠

It is difficult to see even Cassini’s division, but late in the year we will see a bit more, but not too much.

The planet is hard to photograph now, it is too low at the sky (20-25 degrees) and far away, but I am happy with the result. Normally my first attempts of the year are very bad, but this time I had good seeing conditions 👌🏼

You can see 2 of the moons of Saturn, Tethys + Titan.

I hope you like it! ❤️

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC

Moon • 14-04-2024

Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina craters.

I hope to find the night to see again Saturn and Mars, but it is cloudy out there 🫠

Meantime I will continue uploading photos of our beautiful Moon ❤️

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC

Moon • 13-04-2024

This is the southeast limb of the Moon, near the south pole.

We can see here numerous craters, some of them notable such as the double-walled crater, Boussingault.

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC

Moon • 13-04-2024

Janssen crater and company.

This ancient crater has a diameter of 201km and at northeast of it we can see another great crater, Fabricius.

Besides, we can clearly a rille system called Rimae of Janssen in the image.

I hope you like it! ❤️

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC

Moon • 13-04-2024

The northeast limb + De la Rue + Endymion + Hercules and Atlas craters

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC

Moon • 23-12-2023

One of my best/clearest shots of Tycho crater.

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC

Sun • 13-04-2024

Notable sunspots captured with my first telescope (Maksutov 127) + Powermate 2.5x + UV/IR cut filter + Baader solar continuum filter.

Maybe this will be my last time using this telescope to capture the photosphere of the Sun, I recently bought a new solar filter for my newest telescope, Celestron C11 🔥

Sunspots:

1- AR3634
2- AR3633
3- AR3628
4- AR3635

Equipment:

🔭 Maksutov 127
📸 Asi462MC

Moon • 23-12-2023

Kepler crater has a prominent ray system that covers the surrounding mare, you can easily see it west of Copernicus crater.

It has a 32km of diameter and a depth of 2.6km.

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC

Moon • 17-04-2024

First quarter moon in mineral colors.

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi294MC Pro

Saturn • 31-08-2023

I was checking my folders from the last year and I didn’t process this image of Saturn.

The moon tethys was performing an eclipse, you can see something at the southern/west part of the planet, but I didn’t have excellent seeing conditions and it is a blurry spot 🤣

Anyway, what you can see clearly is Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, at the bottom of the image.

This year we will practically not see the rings of Saturn 😞 due to the axial tilt of the planet.

Even so… I really want to take images again, maybe near June 🤩

I hope you like it! ❤️

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC

Moon • 13-04-2024

Swipe to see more details! ❤️

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi294MC Pro

Sun • 13-04-2024

There is a nice solar activity and seeing conditions these days, we can see many sunspots in this picture from today (3637, 3638, 3635, 3634, 3633 and 3628).

I hope you like it! ❤️

Equipment:

🔭 Maksutov 127
📸 Asi294MC Pro
Mosaic of 2 images.

Moon • 23-12-2023

Copernicus crater in mineral colors

Excellent seeing conditions 🤩

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC

Triangulum Galaxy M33

The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years from Earth. It is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind Andromeda and our Milky Way.

This picture is only a 4 stacked images of 300s taken in a great sky (bortle 3).

Still learning deep sky… I hope you like it! ❤️

Equipment:

🔭 Skywatcher 80ED-Pro Black Diamond
📸 Asi294MC Pro
Uv/ir ZWO cut filter
Svbony sv305 (guide camera)

4x Lights - 300s
No darks
No flats
Deep sky stacker
Pixinsight

Moon (Plato crater) • 23-12-2023

I think this is my best photo of this awesome crater.

Seeing conditions were excellent, we can even see the small craterlets across the floor. It is not the best phase, but when the seeing is excellent it doesn’t care 😁

I hope you like it! ❤️

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC

Moon 93% • 22-03-2024

Mineral moon of yesterday under very good and stable seeing conditions👌🏼

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi294MC Pro

Andromeda Galaxy M 31

Last summer I went to a great place with my friend to learn about deep sky imaging.

It was a great night and I took some photos of deep sky objects, this is the first one, our nearest galaxy, Andromeda.

We will collide in the future with this galaxy, but the future of the future, in around 5 billion years 🤣🤣

The distance from our galaxy, the milky way, is around 2.5 millions light years (and it is our nearest galaxy 😁).

I didn’t post in a while, I needed a break, but I am back again :)

I hope to learn more about processing and capturingthe deep sky, it is beautiful 🤩

Equipment:

🔭 Skywatcher 80ED-Pro Black Diamond
📸 Asi294MC Pro
Uv/ir ZWO cut filter
Svbony sv305 (guide camera)

5x Lights - 300s
No darks
No flats
Deep sky stacker
Pixinsight

Jupiter over 4 years

Now it’s Jupiter’s turn! My favourite planet.

We can see many changes during this 4 years, the Great Red Spot is getting smaller (😭) and the bands are always changing.

The last 2 years the planet didn’t change too much, maybe we will see a major change in 2024? We will see… 🤩

I hope you like it! ❤️

Equipment:

2020:
🔭 Maksutov 127
📸 Asi120MC

2021:
🔭 Maksutov 127
📸 Asi462MC

2022:
🔭 Celestron C11
📸 Asi462MC

2023:
🔭 Celestron C11
📸 Asi462MC

Saturn over 4 years

The evolution of Saturn over 4 years, the time I started doing astrophotography

These are my best shots of this amazing planet. This year the rings will be extremely tilted, this means that maybe we wont see it! 😭

I hope you like it! ❤️

Equipment:

2020:
🔭 Maksutov 127
📸 Asi120MC

2021:
🔭 Maksutov 127
📸 Asi462MC

2022:
🔭 Celestron C11
📸 Asi462MC

2023:
🔭 Celestron C11
📸 Asi462MC

Mineral Moon composition

A composition of my best mineral moons in different phases.

What is your favourite? 🌘🌗🌕🌓🌒

Inspired in

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi294MC Pro

Jupiter • 26-12-2023

My last image of Jupiter of the last year.

I had luck, seeing conditions were excellent and the great red spot was in the middle 🔥

I hope you like it! ❤️

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC

Moon • 23-12-2023

Clavius crater, one of my favourites craters of the Moon.

I have photographed this crater many times, but I think that this one is one of my best for sure. Not the best phase, but still a lot of detail in there.

I hope you like it! ❤️

PS: I adopted a dog and I am spending a lot of time with him to educate him. His name is Jupiter! 😁 He will bring clear skies and good seeing 😃

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC

Venus • 26-12-2023

My last Venus of 2023 and probably in a while due to the position of the orbit vs Earth (it is getting closer to our Sun, hard to observe).

Very good seeing conditions that morning 👍🏻

I hope you like it! ❤️

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MM
Powermate 2.5x
Filter ir850nm + Ubessel (image in false color)

Moon • 23-12-2023

Mare humorum and Gassendi crater with excellent seeing conditions.

I hope you like it! ❤️
Have a great weekend 🔥

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC

Uranus • 26-12-2023

Uranus and 4 of its moons: Titania, Ariel, Umbriel and Oberon (left to right).

Excellent seeing conditions, you can clearly see the pole of the planet 😃

I hope you like it! ❤️

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC
Powermate 2.5x
Ir610nm filter (false color)

Moon • 23-12-2023

This is my clearest shot of Sinus Iridum, in mineral colors. Seeing and transparency were excellent 😃

For me, it is one of the most beautiful places on the Moon. If I have the opportunity I will always photograph it.

I hope you like it ❤️

Equipment:

🔭 Celestron C11 XLT
📸 Asi462MC
Powermate 2.5x
Mosaic of 6 images