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LM coming SOON.

Fantasy Faire!!!! Anyone else excited?

LM coming SOON.

Fantasy Faire!!!! Anyone else excited?

LM coming SOON.

Fantasy Faire!!!! Anyone else excited?

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Aurora and a meteor over rural
driveway in Portage La Prairie Manitoba Canada

This is a large composite, the original is around 15 000 pixels in width so a large screen is beneficial for viewing. Full size image with additional details is here: app.astrobin.com/u/cmas?i=yutg2i

I have been wanting to compile something like this for a some time. Reason for not doing it has been that apparently I am very lazy when it comes to planetary imaging and have been blaiming the Finnish weather, lack of proper equipment and whatnot. In early 2025 I thought that let's go with this and let's image the planets - but with my telephoto gear instead of decent telescope, proper astro camera, ADC etc. So I ended up shooting Mercury, Venus, Mars and Uranus with normal camera + telephoto lens. I used the same gear for the mineral moon and the other smaller lunar image. The lunar crescent is an older image from my 127 mm f/15 Mak and I used the same scope for Saturn, too. Solar hydrogen alpha images are taken with my solar imaging gear. On the far right Perseids are seen as well. Images are shown as "imaged scale" but there is an approximation of the sizes for the solar system close to the middle of the photo: Sun and the planets scaled to show approximate true sizes.

So here it is: my version of our solar system - different imaging gear, different times all put together.

Some details for those interested:
Hydrogen alpha solar images: Baader 110 mm D-ERF, Altair Astro 102 mm doublet, Daystar Quark, tilt adapter and ZWO asi174mm, Skywatcher SolarQuest.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus: Sony SEL200600g, Sony SEL20TC, Sony A7RM4, Skywatcher AZ-GTI
Saturn: Bresser 127 mm f/15 Mak, PlayerOne Mars-C, TS UV/IR cut, Skywatcher AZ-GTI
Smaller lunar images: Sony SEL200600g, Sony SEL20TC, Sony A7RM4, Skywatcher AZ-GTI
Lunar crescent: Bresser 127 mm f/15 Mak, ZWO asi183mm, Astronomik ProPlanet 642 BP IR, Skywatcher AZ-GTI
Perseids: Samyang 12 mm f/2.8 NCS fish-eye, Sony A7RM4, iOptron skytracker pro
Sun full disk: 18.5.2024
Sun post-flare loops: 27.5.2024
Mercury: 7.3.2025
Venus: 10.2.2025, 19.2.2025 & 7.3.2025
Mars: 19.1.2025
Jupiter: 8.3.2025
Saturn: 9.9.2022 (very low in the horizon in 2025 here in Finland so I took an older image and scaled it down in relation to Jupiter)
Uranus: 19.1.2025
Mineral moon, waxing gibbous (97 %): 12.1.2025
Waxing gibbous moon (68 %): 8.3.2025
Lunar crescent (6.9 %): 22.4.2023
Perseids: 12.8.2023

Earth is shown as scale and the image is "open source" Apollo era material.

Aurora Corona overhead in Southern Manitoba with a large Perseids meteor streaking through the sky

Nana’s Photographic Tales: All the Night
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Nikon z9, 14mm, 15 sec, f/2.8, ISO 1600 (star stack)
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Donna are you holding on? This is what the entire night looks like when stacked together. Another version of a wonderful night swirling around the North Star.
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Nana’s Photographic Tales: Milky Way Meteor Haze
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Nikon z9, 14mm, 15 sec, f/2.8, ISO 1600
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Milky Way and Meteor - a beautiful night combination and colour and light. Another shot taken during the Perseid Meteor Shower in 2023.
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Nana’s Photographic Tales: All the Colours
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Nikon z9, 14mm, 15 sec, f/2.8, ISO 1600
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There are so many things to love about night sky shooting. Star trails, Milky Way, full moons, and meteor showers! I took this shot during the Perseid Meteor Shower in August 2023. There were hundreds of meteors during that shoot, but this one was so striking showing all the colours of the meteor clear across the sky.
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20 frames stacked using Sequator.

Perseides @ Pétange?

12-13.08.2024 was the peak of Perseids shower (85meteors/h at 04h00) (63meteors/h at 01h30)
From 00h50 to 01h50, I have seen exactly 0 meteors from the place I was!
This is one from several long exposures (up to 15minutes) showing star trails but no meteors!
PS: Individual (white) dots in sky are not stars, but camera sensor noise.

Perseids: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids

Pétange: petange.lu/
Pétange: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9tange
Visit Luxembourg: www.visitluxembourg.com/

The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle that are usually visible from mid-July to late-August. The meteors are called the Perseids because they appear from the general direction of the constellation Perseus and in more modern times have a radiant bordering on Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis. Source: Wikipedia