World Beauty 
Milky Way over Deadvlei in Namibia
Credits: Stefan Liebermann
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joserodrigues.space🇬🇧 A new comet is visible with the naked eye !
C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) is an Oort cloud comet which will reach perihelion (the closest distance) on the 19th, before going away forever.
This morning, I loaded my backpack and set up to capture it. I wanted to see it rise next to the Bietschhorn (3 934). The comet is currently in the Pegasus constellation, just below 51 Pegasi, the first star known to host an exoplanet.
If you have clear skies, you should definitely try to see it : It is bright, and will pass only once! It already shows a very long tail, more than 10° long.
The image was taken with a 120-300 lens, set at 180mm. It is an ethical composite: I first captured the foreground with the tracking off (5 x 15s) and then turned the tracking on when the comet reached the desired position (120 x 15s).
🇨🇭 Une nouvelle comète est visible à l'œil nu !
C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) est une comète du nuage d'Oort qui atteindra son périhélie (la distance minimale au Soleil) le 19 avril, avant de s'éloigner pour toujours dans l'espace interstellaire.
Ce matin, j'ai chargé mon sac à dos et je suis allé la capturer. Je voulais la voir se lever à côté du Bietschhorn (3 934 m). La comète se trouve actuellement dans la constellation de Pégase, juste en dessous de 51 Pegasi, autour de laquelle on a découvert la première exoplanète.
Si vous avez un ciel dégagé, ne ratez pas ça : elle est brillante, elle ne passera qu'une seule fois, et sa queue s'étend déjà sur plus de 10° dans le ciel !
J’ai utilisé un objectif 120-300 mm à 180 mm. L’image est un composite éthique : le premier plan capturé sans suivi (5 x 15 s), puis suivi activé une fois la comète en position (120 x 15 s).
grobi2026 April 12
Comet R3 (PanSTARRS) Brightens
* Image Credit & Copyright: José Rodrigues
https://joserodrigues.space/nightscapes/
Explanation:
Comet R3 is brightening rapidly -- will it survive? C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) has been slowly brightening and extending an ion tail since its discovery last year. This shedding mountain of dirty ice puts on its best sky show this month, though, because it passes its closest to both the Sun (April 19) and the Earth (April 25). The featured image, showing R3 already sporting a tail extending over 10 degrees, was taken two nights ago from Sion, Switzerland with the big mountain Bietschhorn on the left. Comet R3 will be visible during mid-April before sunrise. Although the future brightness of any comet is hard to predict, the brightness of R3 makes it already a good camera comet and it may become visible to the unaided eye in the next week. Comet R3's physical future is also unknown because, like Comet A1 (MAPS) earlier this month, it may disintegrate when it passes its closest to the Sun. Or it may live to leave the Solar System.
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LBN 917 and the Depth of Eridanus by Marco Lorenzi
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LBN 917 and the Depth of Eridanus by Marco Lorenzi
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briangweberphotographyAstro post! It's been a bit, but here's an image of a favorite subject I captured over the winter: Thor's Helmet Nebula. This object trails Orion in the night sky and is pretty low on my horizon. Most images are just Hydrogen and Oxygen, but I grabbed Sulfur data as well and included it in my processing.
Print: https://briangweber.com/featured/1-thors-helmet-nebula-brian-weber.html
Details: https://www.astrobin.com/hd1op0/
#astrophotography #nebula #space #colorful #photography #skywatcherUSA #touptek #stars
Miguel
JD Gadina 🦄NGC3115 - Spindle Galaxy.
Celestron NexStar Evolution 6 + ZWOASI585MC Pro.
945mm, f6.3, 268 exposures of 60’’.
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Celestron NexStar Evolution 6 + ZWOASI585MC Pro.
945mm, f6.3, 268 exposures of 60’’.
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