This image of the morning planet Venus showing its current crescent phase was captured through RGB and UV filters on a Celestron C11 telescope on September 22, 2023 by my friend Andrea Girones of Ottawa. Follow her as andrea_girones on Instagram and as @AndreaGirones on X/Twitter to see more of her fantastic images. Hello, end-of-September…
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This terrific image of the summer Milky Way rising from the southern sky, was captured on the moonless weekend of August 27, 2022 by Manu Mukerji while at the Carr Astronomical Observatory operated by the RASC Toronto Centre northwest of Toronto. In the foreground is a SkyShed Pod, a favorite of serious amateur astronomers who…
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I’ve annotated this image of the full moon taken by Michael Watson of Toronto. The dark maria are labelled in yellow with their Latin names. Major craters and those with ray systems are in blue. the red numerals show the Apollo landing sites, although the equipment is not visible from Earth. Hello, Autumn Harvest Stargazers!…
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This spectacular photograph of the pre-dawn zodiacal light was captured on September 25, 2020 at 5:37 am by Malcolm Park of Prince Edward County, Ontario. The bright point at centre is the planet Venus. The knot of stars above Venus is Messier 44, also known as the Beehive Cluster, in Cancer. Malcolm’s gallery of beautiful…
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