I just completed my first attempt at a SHO/Hubble palette using the Heart and Soul nebulas as a test project.

Askar SQA55

Nikon D850

MLAstro SAL-33 mount

Touptek GS150 guide scope and GPM662m guide camera

Touptek Stellavita for controlling the system

After going through the data and using only the best subs I ended up using 6.5 hours of OCS data, 7 hours of HaOIII data using an Askar Color Magic C1 filter, and 9 hours of SIIOIII data with the C2 filter. The OSC photos were 180 second subs and the narrow-band were all 300 second subs. Stacked and processed in Pixinsight, then layered and edited in Photoshop.

Imaging was done under bortle 3-4 skies in SE Colorado

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 2:51:10 Integration (10S Subs)

Edited In PS Express.

Videos from https://www.spaceweather.gov/products/goes-solar-ultraviolet-imager-suvi

SN 1987A was a Type II supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It occurred approximately 51.4 kiloparsecs (168,000 light-years) from Earth and was the closest observed supernova since Kepler's Supernova in 1604.

Light and neutrinos from the explosion reached Earth on February 23, 1987, and it was designated "SN 1987A" as the first supernova discovered that year. Its brightness peaked in May of that year, with an apparent magnitude of about 3, brighter than the constellation's brightest star, Alpha Doradus.

Credit: David Malin AAT.

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NASA’s Perseverance used its navigation cameras to capture its record-breaking drive of 1,350.7 feet (411.7 meters) on June 19, 2025. The navcam images were combined with rover data and placed into a 3D virtual environment, resulting in this reconstruction with virtual frames inserted about every 4 inches (0.1 meters) of drive progress. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech​

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After nearly five years on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers), and the mission team has been busy testing the rover’s durability and gathering new science findings on the way to a new region nicknamed “Lac de Charmes,” where it will be searching for rocks to sample in the coming year.

Like its predecessor Curiosity, which has been exploring a different region of Mars since 2012, Perseverance was made for the long haul. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which built Perseverance and leads the mission, has continued testing the rover’s parts here on Earth to make sure the six-wheeled scientist will be strong for years to come. This past summer, JPL certified that the rotary actuators that turn the rover’s wheels can perform optimally for at least another 37 miles (60 kilometers); comparable brake testing is underway as well.

Over the past two years, engineers have extensively evaluated nearly all the vehicle’s subsystems in this way, concluding that they can operate until at least 2031.​

More

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-ready-to-roll-for-miles-in-years-ahead/

The city lights outshine the stars in the City That Never Sleeps. Who would have thought that the Milky Way could be visible in this sky?

This image was taken with a filter that blocks most visible light, capturing instead only light in the near-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum (with lower energy than visible light). The astrophotographer's clever setup blocks most of the light pollution from the city: old incandescent light bulbs and some neon lights are still bright in the near-infrared, but fluorescent and LED light bulbs are not.

Of course, stars are also bright in the near-infrared! This image is a reminder that we all live under the same sky, and astronomy allows all of us to learn more about humanity's place in the Cosmos.

Credit: Jason Kurth, Ty Buckley

Captured just after sunset on October 13, 2024.

This time-lapse plays at 160x speed.

Credit: 星の観察館「満天星」

More information at

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-names-astronaut-christina-koch-acting-deputy-chief-engineer/

I used a 6-inch refractor telescope, an astronomy camera, and specialized filters to capture light from singly ionized Hydrogen, doubly ionized Oxygen, and singly ionized Sulfur emissions. I then processed the image and assigned each wavelength color using the Hubble / SHO palette.

The Pelican Nebula (also known as IC 5070^\1])) is an H II region associated with the North America Nebula in the constellation of Cygnus). The gaseous contortions of this emission nebula bear a resemblance to a pelican, giving rise to its name.^\1]) The Pelican Nebula is located nearby first magnitude star Deneb, and is divided from its more prominent neighbour, the North America Nebula, by a foreground molecular cloud filled with dark dust.^\2]) Both are part of the larger H II region of Westerhout 80.^\2])

The Pelican is much studied because it has a particularly active mix of star formation and evolving gas clouds. The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming cold gas to hot and causing an ionization front gradually to advance outward. Particularly dense filaments of cold gas are seen to still remain, and among these are found two jets emitted from the Herbig–Haro object 555.^\1]) Millions of years from now this nebula might no longer be known as the Pelican, as the balance and placement of stars and gas will leave something that appears completely different. - Wiki

MMX is going to explore Phobos and Deimos, Mars’s two moons and our German-French rover Idefix is coming along for the ride. 🚀

We’re livestreaming the launch in German together with YouTuber Senkrechtstarter on Monday, 19 October, from 18:15 UTC.
👉 Watch with us: LIVE: MMX Start

Idefix was developed and built by DLR and CNES in close cooperation with JAXA.
Find out more about the rover and its mission here: https://www.dlr.de/en/research-and-transfer/projects-and-missions/mmx

Credit: ESO/F. Peißker et al.

Following the expected LSP minimum in June 2026 (Goldberg et al., 2024, ApJ, 977, 35), Betelgeuse has been steeply declining in brightness, going from V ~ 0.5 mag to V ~ 0.95 mag between August and October 2026.

If similar to the Great Dimming, there are only a few weeks remaining until the minimum brightness (likely around November 2026).

This picture was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), reveals one of the most detailed views yet of the surface of Betelgeuse.

Image Credit: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/W. Dent et al.

Credit Asher B.

https:// ​x. ​com/asherbphotos/status/2110176170704851361

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 4:18:50 Integration (10S Subs)

Edited In PS Express.

Credit: Petr Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava), Josef Kujal, Vojan Höfer

This was taken from my backyard with my 10” Meade telescope. I hope you like all the tiny details.

Hello, everyone! Here’s my latest look at Orion, captured in just 102 minutes from my Bortle 4.5 backyard with the Sharpstar 13028 telescope and ToupTek 2600C astrophotography camera.

Do you notice anything different about this rendition? If you thought “white balance” that's exactly it! I went for SPCC of KV5 instead of Sb galaxy, or G2V or average spiral galaxy. This cooler white makes the Blue giants pop and add that contrast to the reddish hues of the nebula itself.

M42 is a stellar nursery, with young stars lighting up the gas around them. I love the detail in its bright centre, but this wider view gives the neighbouring objects some room too. Above M42 is the bluish Running Man Nebula. Its dust reflects light from nearby stars, while the darker gaps make up the figure that gave it its name.

Look near the bottom of the image for a much smaller blue glow: NGC 1999. Close-up images reveal a dark patch inside it shaped like a keyhole. Astronomers once thought it was a dense clump of dust blocking the light, but later observations showed it’s a cavity in the cloud. How that hole formed is still a mystery.

Clear skies,

Oleg

From above, the mere appearance of a curious geologic feature in Western Australia is enough to cause a fright. The aptly named Spider Crater, the product of a meteorite impact followed by hundreds of millions of years of erosion, sprawls across the landscape in the country’s Kimberley region.

The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on the NASA-USGS Landsat 9 satellite captured this image of the crater on September 20, 2026. The full impact structure has an oval shape measuring about 13 kilometers by 11 kilometers (8 miles by 7 miles), with the spiderlike central portion measuring about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) across.

Credit: NASA-USGS Landsat 9 satellite

Tracked + Blended image, alignment is real and all images were shot at the same time on the same night

Link to website https://noirlab.edu/public/blog/desi-legacy-imaging-surveys/?lang

In August 2026, the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team released the largest 2D map of the Universe ever created. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map contains nearly four billion celestial objects, including stars, galaxies, black holes, and asteroids.

Using data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys, with help from artificial intelligence, an international team of scientists has discovered 70 new gravitational lenses — rare cosmic alignments that act as natural magnifying glasses. The new lenses further expand the largest collections of confirmed lenses to date, and will allow scientists to study dark matter, galaxy evolution, and the structure of the Universe.

One of the gravitational lenses that were discovered in data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. The lensing effect can be seen as rings or arcs of light that appear around the galaxy at the center of the image.

Credit:
DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys/LBNL/DOE & KPNO/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Target: #Iapetus

Time: 2010-02-18

Observed Distance to Surface (km): 1694576.465

​Narrow Angle Cam 10x Ir1 Grn uv3 Filter

https://opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/view=detail&detail=co-iss-n1645155432

NASA/JPL/j. Roger

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