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Tag: Canon 60D

2023-03-02 Venus & Mars Conjunction Day Zero 200mm

Conjunction

Venus and Jupiter Conjunction!

amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Canon 60D, Conjunction, evening sky, Featured, Jupiter, Planet Rings, Planets, Saturn

Venus & Jupiter

Venus and Jupiter on approach!

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Super Strike!

Super Strike!

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Orion Returns…

Mars is back!

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Lunar Eclipse

My images from the total lunar eclipse 2022-11-08

amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Canon 60D, Cosmic Focus Observatory, cosmos, Crescent, deep sky, eclipse, Featured, image, Lunar, Lunar Eclipse, Moon, nature, photography, science, Skywatcher esprit 120, space, Universe

Northern Star Trails

Northerly star trails.

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Recent Sunspots

Sunspots.

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Falling from The Sky

Strange Sunset Phenomena I made this “video” of stills in 2016 and posted it on YouTube. It lasts 166 seconds, … More

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Electrical Storm

Cloud Strikes Recent summers here in Sydney have often been cloudy and wet – and this summer is following the … More

Astronomy, Canon 60D, cosmos, creation, Featured, image, lightning, lightning bolts, nature, photography, science, southern skies, Stars, world

Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard)

A rare visitor to the inner Solar System.

amateur astronomy, astro-imaging, Astronomy, astrophotography, Canon 60D, Comet, Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard), cosmos, creation, deep sky, Featured, image, nature, photography, science, Skywatcher esprit 120, solar_system, southern skies, space, Stars, Universe, world

Conjunction: Moon, Venus and Mars

Conjunction!

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Dazzling Venus

Why do we only see Venus in the West?

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Venus & Distorted Moon

Setting in the West

amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Canon 60D, cosmos, creation, deep sky, Featured, image, Lunar, Moon, moonset, nature, photography, planet, science, southern skies, space, Stars, Universe, Venus, world
2021-03-24 Moon 11 Days

The Silvery Moon

Gibbous Moon

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Orion Nebula

Emission Nebula M42

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Concentric Circles

Southerly Star Trails

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That Other Conjunction

That other conjunction.

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Electrical Storm

No Grand Conjunction Tonight!

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Stars and Stripes

Stars and Stripes

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Approaching Conjunction -2

Planetary conjunction, wide Field View

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Approaching Conjunction

Get ready for a close encounter!

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2020-10-23 Moon Jupiter & Saturn

Conjunction

A break in the clouds reveals the Moon and two planets.

amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Canon 60D, cosmos, creation, deep sky, Featured, image, nature, open cluster, photography, science, space, Stars, tripod, Universe, world

Venus – Regular as Clockwork

Every nineteen months Venus moves into our evening sky, stays for about nine and a half months and then disappears below our evening horizon

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Orion in the Clouds

  The Orion constellation – it’s one of the best known, easily recognised and most imaged constellations. Orion is unmistakable … More

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Solar Minimum

The image above was taken with a Canon DSLR camera with 600mm lens, tripod mounted. No sunspots! The Sun is … More

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Rosette Nebula

Well, after a long time trying, I finally took an image of the the Rosette Nebula which I can be … More

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Sky Watcher

This was a thirty second snap taken during the period while I was imaging Comet 46P/Wirtanen through my SkyWatcher ED120 … More

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Comet C/2016 M1 (Panstarrs)

A non-telescopic image, with camera piggy-backed on telescope. At a reported magnitude 9, Comet 2016 M1 – in the Sagittarius region … More

C/2016 M1 (Panstarrs), Canon 60D, Comet, Milky Way, saggitarius

Milky Way

This is what a galaxy looks like from the inside! Taken in 2016, this wide-field image shows the glory of … More

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