Venus and Jupiter Conjunction!
Category: Planets
Venus & Jupiter
Venus and Jupiter on approach!
Satellites of Jupiter
Europa, Io, Ganymede & Callisto
Towards the Galaxy’s Heart
The Ink Spot and open cluster NGC 6520
Saturn
It’s Saturn season again!
Uranus
The seventh planet from the Sun.
Antares With Venus
Conjunction!
Neptune
The eighth and outermost planet
Saturn
My sharpest image so far…
Celestial Alignment
A twilight view of Mercury, Spica & Venus with the asteroid Vesta in attendance.
A Shadow on Jupiter
Io Casts a Shadow
Moon and Venus
Conjunction
Conjunction: Moon, Venus and Mars
Conjunction!
Dazzling Venus
Why do we only see Venus in the West?
Saturn
A good time for planets.
Mars & Uranus
Planetary conjunction: Mars & Uranus.
Approaching Conjunction -2
Planetary conjunction, wide Field View
Approaching Conjunction
Get ready for a close encounter!
Uranus
The Seventh Planet
Conjunction
A break in the clouds reveals the Moon and two planets.
Mars
Mars at opposition.
Saturn
With its largest Moon, Titan
Jupiter
Jupiter with moons Ganymede and Io.
Forgotten But Remembered – 2
Amateur astro-photography is not always about imaging the most beautiful wide nebulae.
Saturn Occultation – April 2019
This is my DSLR image taken a few minutes after Saturn reappeared following its occultation by the Moon. Here in … More
Saturn Occultation
Next week will bring a challenging photo opportunity, with Saturn due to be occulted by the Moon. Here in Macarthur … More
Venus Transit
No astrophotography for the last few weeks for me, (mostly thanks to 90% cloudy nights) but also probably none for … More
Mars
This image of Mars was composed from a 4.8 minute video exposure, using the digital crop feature of my DSLR … More
Jupiter
First image of Jupiter with the ZWO 290 camera. Moons: Ganymede (left); Io (right). Object Details: Jupiter. Apparent diameter: 44.3 … More
Earthshine
The crescent Moon and the planet Venus. The dark side of the Moon is illuminated by sunlight reflecting off the … More
Venus Back in the Evening Twilight
Our neighbouring planet Venus recently returned to the evening sky and will dominate the Western sky after sunset until Ocober. … More
Two Planets
No, that really isn’t the Moon. It’s a planet – Venus. It’s summer here in Sydney and the late sunsets … More
Neptune Conjunction
I love planetary conjunctions and watching the Solar System in action as the planets follow their orbits across the sky. … More
Venus in the Evening
Magnificent Venus returned to the evening sky in July 2016 and will remain dominant in the Western sky until March … More
2013 – Planets
All images © R.Powell
Venus Meets The Moon
The planetary conjunction of Venus, Jupiter and Mercury is just about over but tonight the two day old crescent Moon … More
Three Planets
Jupiter, Saturn and Mars are riding high in the Northern sky at the moment. All images © R.Powell
Jupiter
2016-03-05 Jupiter (above) processed from video via Registax All images © R.Powell
Saturn Revisited
Having begun to understand how to process planetary images using video clip frames stacked in Registax, I went back into … More
Mars
Mars is at its closest point to Earth this month and I took the opportunity to learn the technique of … More
Jupiter and Mars
I was hoping to see comets during this observing session but while the sky looked clear, we had high haze, making narrow … More
2012 – Planets
Click on an image for slide show of my planetary images taken in 2012: All images © R.Powell
2011 – Solar System
This year I imaged the Sun and the planets Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus: All images © R.Powell
2010 – Venus
My 2010 images of beautiful Venus All images © R.Powell
2010 – Solar System
My best Solar System images taken in 2010 ….and some interesting planetary conjunctions: All images © R.Powell
Dual Tailed Comet
Comet C/2014 Q1 (Panstarrs) was just a little higher in the sky tonight but it was still lower and dimmer … More
New Horizons: Pluto-Charon – 2
More wonderful images of the Pluto-Charon System, just in: (Above) Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the … More
New Horizons: Pluto-Charon – 1
For the next few days I am going to break my own rule and post NASA images instead of my … More
Venus and Jupiter Video Clip
2015-07-01 Venus & Jupiter with Moons In Telescope As well as photographing the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, I also … More
Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter – 2
The conjunction climaxed on 1st July 2015 with a separation of around 0.4 degree. The first two pictures below were … More
Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter – 1
2015-06-27 Venus Jupiter Sunset – Wide Angle Jupiter and Venus are edging towards a very close conjunction on 1st July. … More
Conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter
2015-06-20 Moon Venus Jupiter 18mm. (c) R.Powell On 20th June 2015 the crescent Moon passed close to Venus … More
Jupiter
Above: Jupiter: Meade LX-90, Canon 60D, 4xBarlow Jupiter is high in the evening sky at the moment and I took … More
Deep Sky & Solar System
Some more astro-images I have taken over the last month, including a telescopic image of the amazing Orion Nebula (M42); … More
Lunar Eclipse
I enjoyed a Lunar eclipse here in Australia tonight (8th October 2014). The weather was not very suitable for astronomy. It … More
Occultation Of Saturn
We experienced another occultation of Saturn by the Moon on 4th August 2014. This image was obtained by my Canon 60D … More
Saturn and the Moon
An occultation of Saturn by the Moon occurred on 14th May 2014, meaning that for about an hour the Moon … More
Cosmic Focus 