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Full Moon, LRGB real enhanced color - v2 100.0% illuminated Moon. Jaime Fernandez https://www.astronomica.es/imagen/584_2.jpg Click on image for full sized, 1816x1864 pixel, moon image or the following link: https://www.astronomica.es/imagen_big.asp?imagen=584_3.jpg Despite appearances, the surface...

Black Friday Offer: cheap flights to the moon... Hi resolution (4236x4296 pixels) 97.4% Moon and Plane. Jaime Fernandez https://www.astronomica.es/imagen/582_2.jpg Click on image for full sized, hi-res (4236x4296 pixels), moon image or the following link: https://www.astronomica.es/imagen_big.asp?i...

Hi resolution 99.5% Full Moon. Jaime Fernandez https://www.astronomica.es/imagen/579_2.jpg (click on image for full sized, hi-res, moon image or in the following link: https://www.astronomica.es/imagen_big.asp?imagen=579_3.jpg The full moon is the lunar phase when the Moon appears fully illuminated...

The surface of the Sun is a very busy place. Jaime Fernandez Full disk: https://www.cloudynights.com/uploads/gallery/album_23970/med_gallery_38427_23970_2164248.jpg https://www.cloudynights.com/uploads/gallery/album_23970/gallery_38427_23970_2164248.jpg AR3402 & AR3404 detail: https://www.cloud...

Da Vinci glow - 5.75 days moon - photomontage Photomontage combination of one 6 images mosaic moon for illuminated area (5.75 days) plus a near full moon 18 image mosaic for dark area simulating moon glow (earthshine) https://www.astronomica.es/imagen.asp?id=1&seccion=1&id_prod=539 Copyrigh...

Colorfull Imbrium & Copernicus area - 11.60 days moon As a result of the combination of a monochrome image and a natural color image the mineral dominant composition of the surface of the moon is revealed for each area. https://www.astronomica.es/imagen.asp?id=1&seccion=1&id_prod=538 Co...

Colourful crescent moon www.astronomica.es Copyright: Jaime Fernandez Each colour represent different mineralogy: silicates, titanium, iron and other. LRGB image, where luminance was obtained from 12 images mosaic monochrome video camera (24000 frames in total), and color comes from an old Canon 35...

Colourful, full moon www.astronomica.es Copyright: Jaime Fernandez This is my very first colourful image of the Moon. Each colour represent different mineralogy: silicates, titanium, iron, and other. It is an RGB image obtained with a simple DSLR camera, combined with the luminance of a monochrome ...

Venus approaching their inferior conjunction http://www.astronomica.es Copyright: Jaime Fernandez http://www.castillosdesoria.com/astropics/imagen/395_2.jpg As seen from Earth, both Mercury and Venus have phases like our moon. That's because they circle the sun inside Earth's orbit. Planets that or...

The Flintstone's telescope When it take something more than counterweights forgotten at home to scupper a night of observation at your favourite place... Who has not ever forgotten to take an important component at a night session? It use to happen after a long distance journey to the darker, trans...

Hi-res PST Sun mosaic, 20 images

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Full sized image (1700x1700 pixels, near 1MByte size)
Author: Jaime Fernandez

Giant arc flare near AR 11987 - 23/feb/2014 13:12h TU Today I was alerted of one big arc evolving very fast and bright. With almost no time to prepare all the equipment I was able to take this terrific picture. PST, DMK618 and EQ mount. Procesing software: Registax 6, PixInsigh Core and Gimp. Copyl...

Giant arc flare near AR 11987 - 23/feb/2014 13:12h TU Today I was alerted of one big arc evolving very fast and bright. With almost no time to prepare all the equipment I was able to take this terrific picture. PST, DMK618 and EQ mount. Procesing software: Registax 6, PixInsigh Core and Gimp. Copyl...

AR 11967 & 11968: The Sun, 2/feb/2014 What can you expect from a modest solar telescope like the PST? This picture is a mosaic composed of 4 images for the inside part of the Sun and another 4 images for the periferical part (which require more expoure time). It's captured using an standard H-a...

Trifid Nebula, M20 http://www.astrotiermes.es Copyleft: Jaime Fernandez http://www.castillosdesoria.com/astropics/imagen/372_3.jpg [attachment=0]372_3.jpg[/attachment] [/url] Amateur challenge: Well, for sure this is not the best Trifid nebula picture ever seen. But have a look to the equipment spe...

AstroTiermes 2013 http://www.astrotiermes.es Copyleft: Jaime Fernandez Lunar Picture of the Day (LPOD), 6/mar/2013 http://www.castillosdesoria.com/astrotiermes/noticia/24_18_cartel_astrotiermes_2013_800.jpg Artistic composition made of three different images: - Moon , a four images mosaic of the cr...

Back home http://www.astronomica.es (image direct link, aditional info) Copyleft: Jaime Fernandez http://www.castillosdesoria.com/astropics/imagen/362_2.jpg Artistic composition made of three different images: - Moon , a four images mosaic of the crescent moon, 4,6 days old. Celestron 9.25 f/6.3 + ...

Asteroid 2012DA14 flyby from Spain (I76) Copyright: Jaime Fernández http://vimeo.com/59836216 This video shows the flyby animation composed of 100 images, 5 seconds each, taken from 23:05:06 to 23:18:01 TU. It takes 12:55 minutes going from side to side of this 83' star field (about three times the...

Mars, perfect seeing Please, visit my web page at www.astronomica.es for the annotated mouseover version of this image. Celestron 9.25 and DMK 21AU618 Copyright: Jaime Fernandez http://www.castillosdesoria.com/astropics/imagen/314_2.jpg http://www.castillosdesoria.com/astropics/imagen/314_4.jpg ___...

The pilar of the World: Caucasus Mons area Please, visit my web page at www.astronomica.es for the annotated mouseover version and hi resolution, full sized version of this image. Mosaic composed of 6 infrared images, Celestron 9.25 and DMK 21AU618 Copyright: Jaime Fernandez http://www.castillosdes...

Ann wrote:...Jaime Fernandez, your image also reveals many fascinating details in M42....

Thanks Ann for your comments.
Please, don't miss the labeled version, it's terrific dicover that these beautifull details have their proper names.

15hrs/80mm telescope, annotated M42 Orion Nebula in SHO narrowband Please, visit my web page at www.astronomica.es for the annotated mouseover version and full sized version of this image. The annotated version shows part of the classical naming of the nebula that comes from observers as Huygens, G...

NGC1499 - California Nebula mosaic in Ha
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Copyright: Jaime Fernandez

Startrails and spanish rural landscape
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How fast it moves II http://www.astronomica.es Copyright: Jaime Fernandez http://www.vimeo.com/28278488 This 2h13m video shows how fast comet C/2009 P1 Garradd moves relative to fixed star field background, while passing optically near of M71 globular star cluster in the constalletion of Sagitta, p...