Tag: Helix Nebula

The Waning Moon Moves Post-midnight, Leaving Lucky Aquarius and Plenty of Planets to Shine!

This image of the large, faint, and spectacular Helix Nebula was taken through the 16″ telescope owned by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and operated remotely from its location in Sierra, California. Ian Barredo re-processed the raw images to produce this award-winning result. The planetary nebula is the corpse of a star of mass…
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Vesta Passes the Helix Nebula, the Post-midnight Moon Meets Planets, Saturn Shines Brightest, Spotty Jupiter, and Moonlight Sights!

This spectacular Perseids meteor was captured by RASC member Don Hladiuk of Calgary at 3:53 am MDT on August 13, 2022. Follow Don on Twitter at @Astrogeo (Yes – we’re each other’s doppelganger!) Hello, mid-August Stargazers! Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of August 14th, 2022 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free to pass…
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Moon Doings on Mid-Summer Evenings, Planets Party from Dusk to Dawn, and Meteors, in Moderation!

This fantastic image of the Lion Nebula, also known as Sharpless-132, was imaged and processed by Tammy Foley. She gathered 19 hours of exposure time through various filters for it. During evening in early August, the lion is prowling the northeastern sky between the W of Cassiopeia and the bright star Deneb in Cygnus, but…
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