Milky Way At Lake Towerinning, Western Australia

Mont-Blanc and Aiguille du Midi, white & cold majesty contrasting with warm fall colors over Chamonix - end of October 2020, while France is locked down again

Our graceful and faithful Moon

Heart and Soul Nebulae

2020 July 7

Comet NEOWISE over Lebanon Image Credit & Copyright: Maroun Habib (Moophz)

Explanation: A comet has suddenly become visible to the unaided eye. Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was discovered in late March and brightened as it reached its closest approach to the Sun, inside the orbit of Mercury, late last week. The interplanetary iceberg survived solar heating, so far, and is now becoming closer to the Earth as it starts its long trek back to the outer Solar System. As Comet NEOWISE became one of the few naked-eye comets of the 21st Century, word spread quickly, and the comet has already been photographed behind many famous sites and cities around the globe. Featured, Comet NEOWISE was captured over Lebanon two days ago just before sunrise. The future brightness of Comet NEOWISE remains somewhat uncertain but the comet will likely continue to be findable not only in the early morning sky, but also next week in the early evening sky.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200707.html

Spent the last week diving head first into Solar imaging

by Curt Morgan

Bright and cold night sky captured with my good old galaxy S21, from Aosta, Italy. We can see Mars, Orion and the Pléiades.

Juno Passes Jupiter

M104 Sombrero Galaxy

The Fish Head Nebula, NGC 896 // Frank Dibbell

Fascinating sky, from Canadian forest.