The Grus Quartet
Tag: planet
Orion Returns…
Mars is back!
Saturn
It’s Saturn season again!
Uranus
The seventh planet from the Sun.
Neptune
The eighth and outermost planet
Saturn
My sharpest image so far…
Conjunction: Moon, Venus and Mars
Conjunction!
Dazzling Venus
Why do we only see Venus in the West?
Saturn
A good time for planets.
Venus & Distorted Moon
Setting in the West
Uranus
The Seventh Planet
Mars
Mars at opposition.
Exomoons and Double Planets
The Universe And All That.
Exomoons and Double Planets
Planet Or Star?
The Universe And All That.
Is the Moon a Planet or a Star?
End of a Decade
With no more images in the pipeline and the bushfire smoke worsening again in South West Sydney – and showing … 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
Southern Skies
Some of my recent astro-images with the Canon 60D camera – no telescope and no light pollution filter. The star … More
Jupiter
2016-03-05 Jupiter (above) processed from video via Registax All images © R.Powell
Mars
Mars is at its closest point to Earth this month and I took the opportunity to learn the technique of … More
Milky Way Star Fields
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
2009 – Solar System
These were my first tentative steps into the Solar System with my astrophotography. I was using a Canon 300D back … 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
Jupiter
Above: Jupiter: Meade LX-90, Canon 60D, 4xBarlow Jupiter is high in the evening sky at the moment and I took … More
Ptolemy’s Cluster
I haven’t done a lot of astro-photography lately for several reasons. One of them being my attempts to convert the … 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 