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The last stage of the Ariane V rocket stopped firing at about 1,000 km altitude over East Africa and might possibly have still been seen some 30º (= cos -1 [R/(1000+R)]) further East. So is this a composite of a photo of the launch plume of the Ariane V rocket taken (from Africa?) somehow Thai'd in...

Star Transit (2).jpg Ok. I'll ask. Why is there a star transitting the moon? :? Being the author of this image, I'll answer this question. The bright star which you can see through the Moon was occulted (=behind the Moon) at the time of the first image (the left-most one in the composite), but the ...

In a couple of days, the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will fall back on Earth. Before this happens, I took advantage of several Lunar transits visible in my area to immortalize this dying space station. This one was taken on February 26th, 2018, from the side of a road (it's important to be as c...

Title: Two eclipses in one day! Less than 24 hours after the so called "blue super blood moon" (or is it "super blue blood moon"???), I had the chance to witness another "eclipse" of the Moon, but very much partial this time. Indeed, the ISS was transiting the Moon, cov...

Asteroid 2014 JO25 was the big star yesterday. I recorded it, moving fast across the sky (about 1 degree per hour) with a simple 80mm refracting scope and a CCD camera on an equatorial mount. Thanks to its brightness, it was fairly easy to capture with basic amateur equipment, even from the light-po...

Hi everyone, here is my contribution to March with the comet 41P/Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresák cruising by the galaxy M108 and the planetary nebula M97. Although it looks like the comet his headed for the galaxy (m108), there is no risk of collision. Indeed, the comet is very close to Earth, at 'only' abo...

I did not want to miss the last day of the planetary conjunction with the Moon, but I was worried I would not be courageous enough to get up when the alarm would ring around 6am. So I solved this problem by staying the whole night out, taking pictures of deep sky objects with the telescope. It was a...

My contribution to the planetary conjunction: Five planets above the partially frozen lake.
(c) Jean-Francois Gout

Thanks a lot for sharing Jeff! I'm really impressed by how good the RAW image is. No need for much processing in the end. This is really impressive.
And now there is no more doubt possible, this is a real single-exposure image with no cheating whatsoever.

BTW, the first link worked fine for me.

jf

Hi, Yes the best way is sending RAW to all, But it's a pity that i'am traveling at Tibet now, i can't offer at this moment. For the startrails in the water. As you know Orion always comes up sideways（azimuth is close to 90 degree). That means the left in the water is nearly vertical and right is sl...

geckzilla wrote: Using Facebook reach as a metric for what the general public thought about this image (more shares means they liked it more) this image received more reach than any other image for the week and so far this month. People loved it!

Woa, that's a surprise for me! Thanks for the info.

jf

Hi, Yes the best way is sending RAW to all, But it's a pity that i'am traveling at Tibet now, i can't offer at this moment. For the startrails in the water. As you know Orion always comes up sideways（azimuth is close to 90 degree). That means the left in the water is nearly vertical and right is sl...

Hi agree with geckzilla. The best way to end the polemic is to share the raw image.

jf

This past eclipse was the last of a tetrad. 4 eclipses in 2 years, all of them visible (at least partially) from North America. I traveled to 4 beautiful places in the US to take pictures of these 4 eclipses. Here is the result: http://www.jfgout.com/photos/i-KRRWSPp/0/M/i-KRRWSPp-M.jpg I recommend ...

Hi everyone, here is my contribution. As you probably know, next month (September 28th, 2015) will see the fourth total lunar eclipse visible from the US in 2 years. This was an exceptional tetrad, providing great viewing opportunities especially to observers in North America. See: http://science.na...

Great images, and congrats to Rogelio on the APOD! Here is my contribution. I flew all the way from Indianapolis to San Francisco for this eclipse, but instead of the Golden Gate Bridge I chose the rocky coast of Big Sur (South of Santa Cruz, CA) for my foreground. Lets start with a few images taken...

Hi everyone, Here is my contribution to the submissions for February 2015. This picture shows the International Space Station (ISS) moving right in front of the Moon. You can also see Venus and Mars behind the tree, left of the house. What you can't see in this picture is the disappointment of the a...

Hi everyone, Although the comet is definitely the big star these days, another event was worth getting up early this morning: a close conjunction between Saturn and the Moon. I took this image with an Orion ED80CFT refracting telescope + barlow Powermate 2x and a Canon 5D Mark II camera. I used the ...

I'm adding one image to my previous submission. It is a composite of 8 frames taken with a mylar filter + one frame taken after sunset. http://www.jfgout.com/Partial-Solar-Eclipse-of/i-P5698x9/0/M/chapelet_v3_cr-M.jpg High resolution: http://www.jfgout.com/Partial-Solar-Eclipse-of/i-P5698x9/0/O/chap...

Hi everyone, Here is my contribution for the partial solar eclipse of October 23rd, 2014. I drove from Bloomington, IN to Logan, OH, chasing the best weather forecast. But it was not enough to get a clear horizon and the sunset was obstructed by a thick layer of clouds. Here are the few pictures I m...

Hello everyone, I'm surprised to see I'm the first one to respond in this topic! So, for this eclipse I went on a short canoe trip to bring all the gear at a remote camping spot, on the shore of Monroe Lake (Bloomington, IN). I was taking time lapses and I used some of the frames to make a compositi...

Great picture Stephane ! It looks like the Frenchies were ready for this meteor (not) shower ! Here is my contribution. I rented a car and drove a few miles south of Bloomington (Indiana) to a dark site that I new as a rock climbing side. Although I was disappointed the storm did not happen, it was ...

Hi everyone. Great pictures of the eclipse! So, here is my contribution. I traveled to Arches National Park (Utah) to capture this image. I had to carry ~100 pounds of gear on the trail to Delicate Arch (tripods, telescope, ...) which was extremely challenging but totally worth it. https://lh4.googl...

Hi everybody, I'd like to share with you this video I recorded of the November 3rd 2013 solar eclipse at sunrise. It's (almost) real time, so it goes slow (nothing like a time lapse) but that was my goal: to show things the way they really are. In the beginning, the clouds block the view and you nee...

Hi everyone, this is my first post here, so I hope I'm doing it correctly. I'd like to submit the following pictures to the APOD. I've been thinking about traveling to see today's solar eclipse for about a year. How often can we see an eclipse ongoing at sunrise? This might be a once in a lifetime e...