[sairamboko]

Originally Posted by graaja

Thank you for the kind words.

By the order of magnitude and position, the one that you have circled definitely looks like Saturn. How did you shoot this picture? Through a telescope or binoculars?

Thank you graaja! I used a selfie stick as a tripod and to keep my iphone steady. Did a 5x zoom on my iphone 12 and captured it. Night mode activated and 10 seconds exposure. I am impressed with the results for a mobile phone! No telescope or binoculars used. I stay in Hosur, maybe the clear sky helped in capturing the planets.

[graaja]

Originally Posted by sairamboko

Thank you graaja! I used a selfie stick as a tripod and to keep my iphone steady. Did a 5x zoom on my iphone 12 and captured it. Night mode activated and 10 seconds exposure. I am impressed with the results for a mobile phone! No telescope or binoculars used. I stay in Hosur, maybe the clear sky helped in capturing the planets.

That is cool. Yes. The night mode in iPhone is almost like astrophotography mode where multiple frames are integrated to get brighter exposure. This keeps noise levels lower as well.

[sairamboko]

Today’s capture was bit better. Both planets together and shot on iPhone again.

[amarendernag]

Brilliant Graaja! Last photo that appears to show Saturn with its rings says it all.

[neelkumar]

And this is all I could come up with using my S20+

[carlosTHEjackal]

For the more interested souls

Courtesy: www.nightskyonline.info

[DonHyd]

Hello guys. It seems that astronomy and astrophysics can fascinate anyone and everyone. The sheer scale of mass and distances is mind boggling. It is a wonder that our earth is in existence for 500 crore years although there are infinite ways it could have exploded

[Mafia]

Thank you for sharing this. I spent at least 10 minutes discussing your thread with my astronomy enthusiastic 11-year-old son.

You made it so easy to understand!

Could you also suggest a beginner's telescope that is not too expensive?

[sparky@home]

This link takes you to the NASA monitoring of Voyager 1 and 2 in real time status, it awesome to realize what distances these 2 small probes have covered and that they are now in interstellar space and wonder what lies ahead.

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/

[graaja]

My first ever picture of a deep space object - The Orion Nebula. Orion Nebula is about 1350 light years away from the earth and is 12 light years across. So this picture is actually how the nebula was 1350 years before and hence this is history.



This is the setup used:
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro german equatorial mount
Telescope: William Optics GT81 APO triplet refractor
Camera - Canon EOS-450D
Guide scope: William Optics 50mm guide scope
Guide camera: ZWO ASI 224
MiniPC: Intel NUC i7 10th gen with 32GB RAM

[sparky@home]

The moon passed between Nasa's Deep Space Climate Observatory and the Earth, allowing the satellite to capture this rare image of the moon's far side in full sunlight. We don't see this side of the moon. Awesome shot!

[V.Narayan]

60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic space flight

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/20...an-spaceflight

Gagarin’s mission on April 12, 1961, marked a historic achievement for the Soviet Union, which beat the United States in a tight race to launch the first human into space.

The flight was limited to a single orbit because of questions about weightlessness, Gagarin was supposed to parachute out of the capsule on return because a soft-landing system was not ready yet.

In a letter to his wife, Valentina, Gagarin asked her to raise their daughters “not as little princesses, but as real people”, and to feel free to remarry if his mission proved fatal.

“Poyekhali!” (Off we go!), the cosmonaut shouted as he took off at 9:07am Moscow time on April 12, 1961.

The 27-year-old cosmonaut’s mission was fraught with drama: a break in data transmission, glitches involving antennae, a retrograde rocket, and the separation of modules. Gagarin bailed out as planned and parachuted onto a field near the Volga River about 720km (450 miles) southeast of Moscow.

But the flight went off safely, and Gagarin became a poster boy for the communist world and is still a national idol 53 years after his death in a jet training accident.

[sparky@home]

This lecture by astronomer Bryan Gaensler provides an overview of the latest thinking on interstellar travel and on the search for alien life. Definitely worth listening to.

Mr. Bryan Gaensler is the Director of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, where he holds a Canada Research Chair.

https://youtu.be/fzweIEvN8sc

[sparky@home]

A 1000 years event

Between 06:02 and 12:03 UTC on November 19, 2021, the Sun, Earth, and Moon will come into near-perfect alignment creating a Partial Lunar Eclipse on Nov.19/2021. This will be the longest partial lunar eclipse since 1440 and the next one due in 2669.

At the maximum point of the eclipse—at 09:02 UTC—99 percent of the Moon’s face will be covered by the dark inner part of Earth’s shadow, called the umbra.
The remaining sliver of the lunar disk will be deep within the lighter, outer part of Earth’s shadow, known as the penumbra.

Link : https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/...and-years.html

[sparky@home]

NASA announced that its solar probe became the 1st spacecraft to fly through the outer atmosphere of the Sun. The space craft flew through the Sun’s upper atmosphere “Corona” and sampled magnetic fields and particles there, as announced by NASA. The mind boggling thing is that this craft flies at an astonishing speed of 500,000 kmph, which is to enable it to get in and out quickly to avoid the heat. It was launched in 2018.

https://youtu.be/LkaLfbuB_6E

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard...ew-discoveries