Saturday, January 4, 2020

2020 DSO and Solar System

Early picture of the Great Conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn, very challenging with a lot of clouds on December 21, 2020 from Gaithersburg, MD













Jupiter and its Galilean moon on December 29, 2020:





Saturn and two of its moons Titan (left) and Rhea on December 29, 2020:



Leo Triplet B group of galaxies from April, 2020.  Some novel processing with satellite trail substitution (Adam Block's selective rejection process).



















Messier 87 has a massive black hole in the center, and this black hole is ejecting a visible stream of matter, the "relativistic jet".  Hydrogen Alpha only photo from December 21 and 25, 2019, and January 1, 2020.

















Comet 46p Wirtanen from February, 2019, reprocessed with the StarNet AI star removal process in Pixinsight, along with PixelMath
















Uranus



Venus November 7, 2020



Mars November 7, 2020


Mars at opposition




Link to video file showing Mars at opposition October 13, 2020

Mars with its moon, Phobos and Deimos



Sun and Prominence on September 19, 2020


Saturn on November 7, 2020




Saturn and Jupiter through the haze of West Coast fires




Jupiter's moon Ganymede is in the top left corner




Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)


 
Sharpless 2-101, the Tulip Nebula in Narrowband



First photo of 2020 is the Rosette Nebula in Hydrogen Alpha / Oxygen III Narrowband.