2021 Review: Post 1 of 3

Moon & Planets A reprise of my best Solar System images taken during the year. What! No Comet Leonard? Well … More

A Shadow on Jupiter

Io Casts a Shadow

Planetary conjunction, wide Field View

Get ready for a close encounter!

First image of Jupiter with the ZWO 290 camera. Moons: Ganymede (left); Io (right). Object Details: Jupiter. Apparent diameter: 44.3 … More

Above: The Large Magellanic Cloud. Canon 60D on Star Adventurer mount, 24mm lens, 3 minutes, f4.5, ISO 1600, cropped. Following our visit … More

Field of view approximately 98º x 75º. Exposed at f/4.5, ISO 640. Total duration of trails: 50.5 minutes, consisting of 98 … More

2017-04-23: Jupiter and its third largest moon, Io. Taken at The Oaks, NSW. Image stacked from around 9150 video frames, … More

Last night I joined my Macarthur Astronomical Society friends at Campbelltown Rotary Observatory for another of our public astronomy nights. … More

Jupiter, Saturn and Mars are riding high in the Northern sky at the moment. All images © R.Powell

2016-03-05 Jupiter (above) processed from video via Registax All images © R.Powell

I was hoping to see comets during this observing session but while the sky looked clear, we had high haze, making narrow … More

Click on an image for slide show of my planetary images taken in 2012: All images © R.Powell

This year I imaged the Sun and the planets Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus: All images © R.Powell

My best Solar System images taken in 2010 ….and some interesting planetary conjunctions: All images © R.Powell

These were my first tentative steps into the Solar System with my astrophotography. I was using a Canon 300D back … More

Comet C/2014 Q1 (Panstarrs) was just a little higher in the sky tonight but it was still lower and dimmer … More

I like to look for bright comets with my DSLR mounted on a tripod. It’s a simple approach and it’s … More

2015-07-01 Venus & Jupiter with Moons In Telescope As well as photographing the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, I also … More

2015-06-27 Venus Jupiter Sunset – Wide Angle Jupiter and Venus are edging towards a very close conjunction on 1st July. … More

2015-06-20 Moon Venus Jupiter 18mm. (c) R.Powell On 20th June 2015 the crescent Moon passed close to Venus … More

Above: Jupiter: Meade LX-90, Canon 60D, 4xBarlow Jupiter is high in the evening sky at the moment and I took … More

It was a short night observing with the Society at Stargard on 17th January, due to the late sunset. Most … More