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Barnard 312 "Gorilla Nebula" Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses: Sharpstar 61EDPH Imaging Cameras: QHYCCD QHY183C Mounts: Celestron Advanced VX Software: Adobe Photoshop · Aries Productions Astro Pixel Processor (APP) · Luc Coiffier DeepSkyStacker (DSS) · Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight · Stefan...

Thin Moon Nine-panel mosaic of the Moon just before sunrise on August 25, 2022, when the phase was just 5%. From Sassari, Sardinia, Italy Meade LX65 M6 Maksutov-Cassegrain 6" ZWO ASI224MC Svbony UV/IR cut filter Thin Moon https://www.astrobin.com/ud1kln/B/ Copyright: Antonio Grizzuti https://a...

Cosmic couples Since last year I've been able to shoot some of the most famous "couples" of nebulae around the sky. So I decided to setup this collage. Each picture has been taken from my balcony in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, which is a quite light-polluted place (Bortle 6, Sqm 19.5) with a...

Clavius and friends With its 230.77 km in diameter, Clavius ​​is the third largest crater on the Moon, to the point of being visible to the naked eye. Its formation dates back to the Nectarian period (3,920-3,850 million years ago), and therefore has an age of just under 4 billion years- Clavius ​​...

Gassendi & Mare Humorum Gassendi is 110 km large lunar crater located in the northern shores of Mare Humorum. The lava inundated the crater during its formation, hence the ground is quite smooth, except for the peak and the rim. https://astrotips.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Gassendi-Mare-Humo...

Four friends sitting on the shores of the Oceanus Procellarum These four craters seem like four old friends sitting and having good times on the quiet shores of the Oceanus Procellarum, one of the large seas of the Moon. From top to bottom: Cavalerius (59,35 km), Hevelius (113,87 km), Lohrmann (31,...

From North America to Crescent Copyright: Antonio Grizzuti https://astrotips.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/From-North-America-to-Crescent-resize-scaled.jpg Hi everyone! Three panel mosaic of the central region of the Cygnus constellation. From left to right, in order of appareance, the North Americ...

Propeller Nebula and surroundings Copyright: Antonio Grizzuti https://astrotips.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/PropellerNebula-scaled.jpg PropellerNebula-scaled[1].jpg The Propeller Nebula (also known as DWB 111 or Simeis 57) is an emission nebula located in Cygnus. It's a less known H-alpha region ...