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Holding Jupiter www.rafaeldefavari.com The source of light in my hand is nothing but the most massive planet in our Solar System: Jupiter. No artificial light was used, and the image is the result of a single 30s exposure. There was no one around at the time, so I had to "shoot - run - align -...

Fire in the sky
Milky Way rising in the Southern Hemisphere, Brazil.
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Lunar occultation of Jupiter Jupiter being occulted by the Moon on 25th December 2012, as seen from São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. This video shows the event 5x faster than real time. Filmed with a Celestron C8 telescope and DBK21AU618.AS camera. Credit: Rafael Defavari http://www.rafaeldefavari.co...

Path to Light
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Venus, Jupiter, and lavenders after sunset
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Lavender Field under the Southern Milky Way Arch
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A 100-Billion-Suns Set.
Resende, July/2015 - Brazil.
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6 years of Saturn by Rafael Defavari http://rafaeldefavari.com This image shows the tilting of Saturn towards Earth during the last 6 years - between Dec/2010 and April/2015 - since I started in astrophotography. The bright spots near the planet's disk are some of its closest moons, appearing betwe...

Atacama skies
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Observing the nightsky at Atacama desert, Chile.

Andromeda Galaxy - M31 http://rafaeldefavari.com Copyright: Rafael Defavari This is Andromeda Galaxy, known as M31 on Messier Catalog, shot through a telescope. Total exposure time is 2h10min, stacking one minute sub-exposures to reduce noise of the final image. The object was tracked with a motori...

Milky Way over Moon Valley http://rafaeldefavari.com Copyright: Rafael Defavari Four Galaxies can be seen simultaneously on this panoramic picture - all of them easily visible to the naked eye from a dark sky far away from big cities - The Large Magellanic Cloud, on the left; the Small Magellanic C...

Star-filled trees
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Milky Way center above some backlit trees.

Milky Arch
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Milky arch over Angra dos Reis and Paraty bay, Brazil. Panorama made of 13 images.

Double Satellite flyby http://www.rafaeldefavari.com Copyright: Rafael Defavari Can anyone point which satellites are these? Coordinates of the local: -22.900846, -46.826627 Date: 23th July 2014 Local time: 18:39 (-3h from Greenwhich) - 21:39 UT Milky Way double flare 900px 7.jpg Green laser sater ...

Saturn 2014
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Orion and the Redeemer http://500px.com/rafaeldefavari Copyright: Rafael Defavari https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1399639_704134366278557_1050167253_o.jpg Click to view full resolution ISON 15th November http://500px.com/rafaeldefavari Copyright: Rafael Defavari https://fbcdn...

Rho Ophiuchi Copyright: Rafael Defavari http://500px.com/rafaeldefavari https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1077426_637715276253800_909519217_o.jpg Click to view full size image Taken from Gonçalves, Brazil. Technical details: http://www.astrobin.com/48670/ Full resolution image ...

Milky Way over green mountains
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Super Moon Corona http://500px.com/photo/38504952 Copyright: Rafael Defavari Picture of the Super Moon with the Lunar Corona visible on a cloudy night, taken on 24/06/2013 around 03:00am UT from Campinas, Brazil. https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1053449_625064790852182_1932913...

Triple conjunction between the clouds http://500px.com/rafaeldefavari Copyright: Rafael Defavari Taken on May 27, 2013, after a rainy day from Campinas, Brazil. I had another element perfectly aligned for this picture: the clouds. https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/965461_611474...

Big Deeper from the South http://500px.com/rafaeldefavari Copyright: Rafael Defavari Big Deeper as seen from Jean Nicolini Observatory - Campinas, Brazil. https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/919836_602871953071466_429025810_o.jpg Click to view full size image

The center of our Milky Way
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Taken with a 50mm lens on a DSLR and a home-made tracking mount from Jean Nicolini Observatory site, Campinas, Brazil.

Saturn's Hexagon
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Taken with an 8" Schimdt-Casegrain telescope from Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil.

Saturn and some of its moons
Taken on 06 April 2013.
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Lunar occultation of Jupiter - December 25, 2012 Copyright: Rafael Defavari Jupiter being occulted by the Moon on 25th December 2012, as seen from São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. This video shows the event 5x faster than real time. https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/564103_536417...