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Damian Peach

@peachastro

3 years

Today's @apod features images of Saturn I obtained over a 15yr period.

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4 years

#jupitersaturnconjunction on Dec 21st at 00:18UT. A combination of several exposures to reveal the moons of both planets. The GRS is visible on Jupiter. Titan is seen to lower right of Saturn.

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3 years

A new impact flash has been discovered on Jupiter by Brazilian observer Jose Luis Pereira - the flash occurred at Sep 13th, 22:39:30 UTC. It looks quite a bright one. Follow up images of this region will be useful to see if any dark scar was left following the event.

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4 years

An unusual view of totality just now from the GOES-East satellite - the shadow of the Moon racing across the South Pacific. Cool!

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4 years

#Mars on October 30th. The best result so far this season. Note the Tharsis volcanoes poking through the morning mists at right. Valles Marineris is well resolved just below centre.

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3 years

The entire face of #Mars in 2020 - whole planet map and hemispheric views.

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2 years

#Jupiter , #Venus and the #Moon this evening among the clouds. A lovely conjunction. Get out and look if you have clear skies!

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3 years

Sunset across Chicago from the air a few days back.

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3 years

My fellow imager and friend Chris Go captured this excellent image earlier today of a rare triple transit event on Jupiter. All four Galilean moons can be seen here. From left - Europa, shadow, Ganymede, shadow, Callisto and Io in partial eclipse at far right.

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3 years

A year ago today #Jupiter and #Saturn appeared within the same telescopic field of view. Here is the view on Dec 21st showing both planets and their moons.

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3 years

Here is a recently re-worked view of Comet Oukaimeden passing the Rosette Nebula. Very lucky to catch this conjunction at just the right moment!

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7 years

#Mars passes between the Lagoon and Trifid nebulae in Sagittarius. This view captured on March 18th. #Astrophotography #Space

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4 years

#comet C/2020 F8 (SWAN) on May 2nd. What a tail this has developed in recent days. Field here is 10deg wide.

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3 years

#Jupiter on opposition on August 20th. With the Sun, Earth and Jupiter all perfectly aligned we can see Io in transit across the disk perfectly in line, and partially occulting its own shadow.

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1 year

Jupiter on Oct 8th. Excellent seeing. This one is just 6 x 50sec using the C14HD with Uranus-C camera.

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4 years

#Mars meets the Moon on Sep 6th. This was taken with two different telescopes/camera combos running at the same time. a 50cm F15 for the L data while a 76cm RC captured some colour data.

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3 years

The entire face of #Mars in 2020 produced from images i captured near the opposition period in October/November. All the familiar features across the Martian surface can be seen. South polar cap is at bottom.

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3 years

Almost 14 years ago today i shot this view of Jupiter with its moons Ganymede and Io alongside the planet. Io is casting a dark shadow onto the cloud tops at lower right.

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2 years

#Jupiter on Oct 2nd. Near perfect seeing. Europa and shadow in transit near the GRS. Io alongside with surface detail visible. C14HD with Saturn M-SQR camera.

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#Saturn on Sep 30th. Near perfect seeing. No spots or features are seen in the atmosphere, though the belt/zone pattern is well defined. C14HD with Saturn M-SQR camera.

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3 years

Complete madness. Will we ever learn....

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4 years

Wide-field view of #cometNEOWISE on July 17th. Note the synchronic bands in the dust tail which come from the wave pattern in the dust seen in the close-up nucleus view.

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3 years

#Comet Leonard alongside Messier 3 earlier today. Again a collaboration with my long time friend Ian Sharp.

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4 years

#Comet C/2020 F8 (SWAN) on April 28th. The tail on this is now at least 8deg long! The best comet ive seen in some years! 200mm F2 lens with FLI CCD camera.

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1 year

#Jupiter on Sep 22nd. Very good seeing. The GRS can be seen right on the very edge of the disk. The dark STB spot is very striking. Many other details visible across the planet. C14HD with Saturn M-SQR camera.

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3 years

Parade of the moon and planets across the water here this evening.

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3 years

Sixteen years ago today i shot this view of Jupiter using my Celestron C9.25 telescope. The GRS and Europa with shadow are on view. This is the original processed image - ive not re-done it with modern software.

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4 months

A new image released from the Large Binocular Telescope showing Jupiter's moon Io. The sharpest ever taken from a ground based telescope and well beyond what even HST has produced. From Earth Io spans around 1 arc second across.

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2 years

This is what you get when you point a 50cm telescope at the same area of seemingly empty sky for 360hrs. A remarkable new discovery by Marcel Drechsler and Xavier Strottner. More details on this project here:

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4 years

#cometNEOWISE on July 13th. Another image produced by Ian Sharp and Myself. 71mm APO with Canon 6D. 51 x 15sec. Dual comet/stars stack.

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3 years

#Jupiter with GRS and trio of moons. Some very good seeing. Ganymede, Io and Europa alongside the planet. The GRS measures 15,138km across its horizontal axis at present - well under half the size it was in the 1890s!

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3 years

#Comet Leonard on Jan 1st. My first image of the new year is a view of Comet Leonard which has been putting on an impressive show in southern hemisphere evening skies.

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2 years

A rare double transit of Io and Europa. While Io is easily seen against the clouds, Europa is more tricky, but still well seen just above Io. This was a great view through the eyepiece too! Celestron C14 image.

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3 years

Another view of comet Leonard on January 2nd. Many streamers visible within the ion tail on this day.

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3 years

Some small telescope visual observing. Jupiter and Saturn in the background. Takes me back 30yrs!

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9 years

@NASANewHorizons approach to Pluto in colour - June 25th to July 14th. #PlutoFlyby http://t.co/Cib2ilOkR1

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3 years

Four years ago today we captured this view of Saturn from Pic du Midi Observatory using the 1m telescope there. A memorable night to say the least! #Saturn

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4 years

#cometNEOWISE on July 11th. Note the distinct dust and gas tails. Some high cloud bands across the comet toward left.

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10 years

Composite of the eclipse from Devon, UK #eclipse2015 #SolarEclipse http://t.co/GtH51IfCl5

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@peachastro

3 years

The Whirlpool Galaxy Decided to have a crack at this well known target. Messier 51 is located 28 million light years away with its smaller companion galaxy NGC 5195 alongside it.

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7 years

Totality in Ultra HDR composed of 42 images of varying exposures. #Eclipse2017

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4 years

Close-up view of the nucleus of #cometNEOWISE obtained last night. Note the various dust shells and streamers visible. Takahashi 250mm Dall-Kirkham. ASI290MM+ R filter. 18k frames.

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1 year

#Jupiter in blue light on Sep 23rd. Excellent seeing. The GRS is just appearing at bottom left, while Oval BA is visible toward lower right. C14HD with Saturn M-SQR camera.

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@peachastro

3 years

NGC 3576 is a bright emission nebula in the Sagittarius arm of the galaxy a few thousand light-years away from the Eta Carinae nebula. 20"CDK. LRGB. 2hrs total.

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@peachastro

3 years

A ground based montage of the solar system (well, minus the planet i am standing on!) All images taken over the past few years using various telescopes.

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3 years

#Comet Leonard on Dec 1st. Collaboration with Ian Sharp.

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2 years

Imaging the giant planet near dawn this morning....

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1 year

#Saturn on Oct 2nd. Excellent seeing. Note the bright spot near the polar region clearly stands out. Otherwise all look pretty quiet! C14HD with Saturn M-SQR.

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3 years

#Comet Leonard on Jan 2nd. A period of high activity around this date produced a really nice image with many ion tail streamers visible.

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4 years

#Mars on October 17th. Mars obtained from Chile on October 17th using the 1m telescope. Some good seeing over the session. Note the huge oval shape of Olympus Mons over to the right side of the disk.

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3 years

Cederblad 51 A small part of the larger Sharpless 2-264 nebula surrounding Lambda Orionis. Its located around 1400 light years away.

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3 years

High resolution Tarantula Nebula in narrow band 16hrs exposure using a 60cm telescope. Be sure to check the link to look inside this amazing celestial gem which contains the most massive and luminous star known (R136a1) at its heart.

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2 years

Mars & Saturn meet. Early risers will have no doubt witnessed Mars and Saturn passed very close to one another over recent days. Here is the view on April 4th. Note the distinct colour differences between them.

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4 years

The Eye of #Mars on Oct 27th. Solis Lacus (The Eye of Mars) is dead centre looking straight back at us, A detailed view of the Valles Marineris canyon system and Melas Lacus. Olympus Mons is seen emerging from the morning mists at lower right.

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3 years

Little known spiral galaxy NGC 2280 in Canis Major. Located 75 million ly away among the rich star fields of Canis Major this one is often overlooked for the many brighter targets in the region.

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3 years

#Saturn on August 26th. Fair seeing using the 50cm from La Palma.

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Jupiter with Ganymede (September 28th) Excellent seeing. Ganymede and shadow are in transit across the southern hemisphere. The bright ray crater Osiris is clearly visible on Ganymede. Lots of turbulent activity within the south temperate region at these

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7 years

Totality from Hodges, SC today. Quickly processed result showing the solar corona. Bright star Regulus is at left. #totaleclipse2017

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2 years

Io and its shadow captured in transit across the Jovian cloud tops under good seeing using the C14 telescope.

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3 years

The dust clouds of Messier 78. The reflection nebula M78 in Orion. Doing some Deep Sky for a while since the planets are away! This is but a small part of the Orion Molecular Cloud complex 1350 light years away.

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6 years

Some dramatic changes in Jupiter's long lived Oval BA storm seen in the latest Juno images. The storm has again become white in appearance after having spent the last twelve years orange coloured. These images from July 2017 and Dec 2018 show the remarkable change in appearance.

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2 years

Setting up the telescope is proving a challenge.....😼😼

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2 years

#Jupiter on September 19th. Near perfect seeing. Lots of interesting details visible across the planet. C14HD with Saturn M-SQR.

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3 years

A year ago today i enjoyed this splendid view of Mars from home. The famous Syrtis Major is centre with the south polar cap at top. Right at the centre of the disk is the crater Huygens - its circular outline clearly visible.

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3 years

Fifteen years ago today i was imaging Saturn! - here is the result from April 14th, 2006. Amazing to think Saturn has moved half way around its orbit since this was taken - oh, and i was 27! 😭

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4 years

Imaging the conjunction just now. Lots of moons visible in this one. #JupiterandSaturn

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3 years

Views of the GRS from my images over the years (2005 - 2016) showing its changing appearance. #Jupiter

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3 years

Here is a view of #Mars i captured almost exactly a year ago. Here we see the Eye of Mars (Solis Lacus) staring back at us. The Valles Marineris canyon makes up the lower rim of the eye. Olympus Mons is bottom right emerging from the wispy Martian clouds.

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#Jupiter on October 18th. Ganymede can be seen in transit across the cloud tops near centre. The GRS is also on view at right.

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#Mars from September 30th. This time without artifacts spoiling the view. Completely re-worked earlier today from the raw video data.

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Comet Leonard (December 7th) Another collaboration with Ian Sharp. Processing this to retain the delicate tail streamers was time consuming work. The tail now stretches about 10deg long, though this view only shows a small portion of it.

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#Jupiter on September 6th. Another collaboration with Rico. This data was previously unprocessed. Be sure to check the full res image - some very fine details visible. Certainly among the best ground based results of recent years i think.

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10 months

A short video captured by Antonio Piras (Sardinia) of the occultation. This is by far the best video ive seen of this rare event with the dimming clearly seen. #betelgeuse

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3 years

#Saturn on August 21st. Another image with Rico using the 50cm telescope. Good seeing. Note the striking blue southern hemisphere peaking out below the rings.

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#Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on Nov 5th. Rosetta's comet is currently well placed in the night sky having just passed perihelion. Its also displaying a faint 2-3deg dust tail.

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2 years

Saturn on May 23rd Here is an image of Saturn from the 23rd. Average seeing. Little of note across the planet. The southern hemisphere above the rings has a nice teal colour emerging from its long winter.

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2 years

#Jupiter with GRS on Sep 19th. Near perfect seeing with the GRS central. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times ive experienced that in 25yrs of imaging the planet! C14HD with Saturn M-SQR.

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3 years

#Saturn on Aug 27th. Good seeing using the 50cm scope. The polar hexagon can be seen at top. No notable storms are visible - all very quiet compared to Jupiter!

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1 year

#Mars on May 30th. Good seeing. Despite the tiny 4.7" diameter plenty of detail is visible. Syrtis Major at lower left. NPC at top. Elysium is the bright area right of centre. 100cm RC at 1/4 aperture. ZWO ASI462MC.

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4 years

Re-processed one of my best #Saturn data sets from 2016 recently with much improved results. Taken from Barbados under near perfect seeing in June 2016, many storms are visible on the planet, along with the polar hexagon.

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#Mars on November 12th. Fair seeing and frequent clouds. Solis Lacus and Aurorae Sinus on view. A bright North Polar Hood at top. C14HD with Uranus-C.

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4 years

#Mars near close approach for 2020 on October 7th at a distance of 35.8 million miles. To give an idea of how far that is, driving in a car at a steady 60mph would take 68yrs to complete the journey!

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1 year

Sunrise over Mare Nubium Dramatic shadows are seen in this extreme lighting view of the Mare Nubium. The famous straight wall is nicely seen at centre casting a long shadow. C14HD with Saturn M-SQR camera.

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9 years

LRGB Colour Pluto close-up mosaic made from raw LORRI and Jul 14th colour data. This took some doing! #PlutoFlyby http://t.co/R2Azx3qg2X

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#Jupiter on July 16th. Oval BA and the GRS are seen in this view from this morning under average seeing.

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Saturn on July 8th. I've been regularly photographing Saturn since 1998 and its pattern of belts and zones never look the same from one year to another. This year we seem to have some lovely colourations toward the northern polar region.

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#Saturn on Sep 21st. Near perfect conditions for this view with many details visible across the globe and rings. A small storm is visible near the pole. C14HD with Uranus-C camera.

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3 years

Today was a very special Valentines Day - i got married!!

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4 years

Two men, a comet and some noctilucent clouds taken last night.

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8 years

#Saturn on February 25th. Good seeing. The polar hexagon and ring divisions are clearly seen. Full size here #space

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3 years

Here is an image obtained by Rico and myself 1hr after the impact event. The site is clearly resolved and no visible scar was left (just as with previous impact flash events.) The object was probably too small to reach the deeper atmosphere.

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#Venus and #Mars in the morning sky captured earlier this morning. Venus and Mars together captured this morning. The two are about half a degree apart in the morning sky and will remain fairly close for the next few days. 135mm lens with ASI2600MM.

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#Saturn on September 16th. Some reasonable seeing from home at 20º high. The shadow of the globe on the rings is prominent.

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#Saturn on August 6th. Taken using the Mewlon 250 with the planet 17° altitude.

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4 years

#cometNEOWISE with the pointers in Ursa Major (the two brighter stars upper right.) Taken from a very dark sky site with ocean horizon under perfect conditions at Hartland Point, Devon.

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The ISS in colour in Jan 29th. The three views here are compiled from frames during the best parts of the video sequence. Captured using ASA 80cm RC with ASI1600MC camera.

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Messier 82 This new collaboration with Rico Enzmann is especially interesting as this was taken with a Canon R5 DSLR attached to the 1m F/8 telescope. It has had no calibration at all (no darks, flats etc.) 500 x 30 sec exposures combined.

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8 years

11 year #Saturn animation. Thanks to Sam Cornwell for producing this. Animation covers 2003-2014.

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8 years

Moon, Mars and #Venus this evening make a lovely grouping among the trees.

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2 years

A bright spot on Io - October 2nd (a short thread) While trawling through data from Barbados i came across this very interesting image from October 2nd obtained through a blue filter in near perfect seeing... (1/3)

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