Orion, The Hunter

The Fish Head Nebula, NGC 896 // Frank Dibbell

Strawberry Summer Moon

Just wow

A picture of the solar eclipse from the ISS

Heart of the Scorpion 

Carina Nebula Close Up. From NASA APOD.

2025 January 27

Pleiades over Half Dome Image Credit & Copyright: Dheera Venkatraman

Explanation: Stars come in bunches. The most famous bunch of stars on the sky is the Pleiades, a bright cluster that can be easily seen with the unaided eye. The Pleiades lies only about 450 light years away, formed about 100 million years ago, and will likely last about another 250 million years. Our Sun was likely born in a star cluster, but now, being about 4.5 billion years old, its stellar birth companions have long since dispersed. The Pleiades star cluster is pictured over Half Dome, a famous rock structure in Yosemite National Park in California, USA. The featured image is a composite of 28 foreground exposures and 174 images of the stellar background, all taken from the same location and by the same camera on the same night in October 2019. After calculating the timing of a future juxtaposition of the Pleiades and Half Dome, the astrophotographer was unexpectedly rewarded by an electrical blackout, making the background sky unusually dark.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250127.html

The Orion Nebula (M42), M43 and the Running Man Nebula.

Credit: Chad Quandt

Focus on a small portion of the Milky Way, above Canadian forest, August 2019, showing North American nebula and part the Cygnus constellation. Taken with Nikon D750, 50mm, ISO1600, 10s. I did not have a tripod, it was tricky to keep the camera still.

caress of light by Maria Franca Perra