The late coming X-max Tree + Cone Nebula - NGC 2264
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- Composite of 1.7 h RGB + 2.7 h Ha data
Technical details on Astrobin:
https://app.astrobin.com/u/Kassar?i=jkvu97
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Eighth Frame
Full size & info: https://flic.kr/p/2pHBL86
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY
Mission: ESA Mars Express
Orbit 7982
Instrument: HRSC
Time: 2010-03-26T12:18:52.587Z
Filter: ND
Product IDs:
H7982_0000_ND3.IMG
Notes: all images above are colorised and are a single shot, not a composite. More info on the related links.
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Seventh Frame
Full size & info: https://flic.kr/p/2q7SEgp
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY
Mission: ESA Mars Express
Orbit 12173
Instrument: HRSC
Target: Phobos
Time: 2013-07-29T13:09:55.255Z
Filter: IR
Product IDs: HC173_0000_IR3
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Sixth Frame
Full size & info: https://flic.kr/p/2oR4NZZ
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY
Mission: ESA Mars Express
Orbit 22631
Instrument: HRSC
Time: 2021-11-29 T15:33:44.434Z
Product IDs:
HM631_0000_GR3
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Fifth Frame (never published before and probably the best resolution of Phobos of this serie)
Full size & info: https://flic.kr/p/2qQWKph
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY
Mission: ESA Mars Express HRSC
Time: 2021-11-22 22:51
Product IDs:
HM608_0000_BL3
HM608_0000_ND3
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Fourth Frame
Full size & info: https://flic.kr/p/2omtfWS
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY
Mission: ESA Mars Express
Orbit 11143
Instrument: HRSC
Time: 2012-10-02T15:05:22
Product IDs:
HB143_0000_BL3
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Third Frame
Full size & info: https://flic.kr/p/2qQPJHk
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY
Mission: ESA Mars Express
Orbit: 13225
Instrument: HRSC
Time: 2014-05-31T20:14:40.405Z
Filter: GR3
Product IDs: HD225_0000_GR3.IMG
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Second Frame
Full size & info: https://flic.kr/p/2o6gABn
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY
Mission: ESA Mars Express
Orbit 21552
Instrument: HRSC
Time: 2021-01-19 - 16:47
Product ID: HL552_0000_BL3
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First Frame
Full size & info: https://flic.kr/p/2qJrbGD
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY
Mission: ESA Mars Express
Orbit: 3868
Instrument: HRSC
Time: 2007-01-10T20:50:06.626
Filter: S13
Product IDs: H3868_0000_S13.IMG
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Animation of Phobos Over Mars: a time lapse from 2007 to 2021
Full size & info: https://flic.kr/p/2qREua9
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY
8 frames, captured by ESA Mars Express. It's stabilized on Phobos (Todd crater) to play with the disorienting effect.
All images below
Check out also my Album about Phobos on Flickr: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvrQL
The Flaming Star nebula in Auriga is interesting because of its prominent combination of emission (red) and reflection (blue) nebula components.
About an hour each of R,G and B, captured in January. Subject deserves more image capture time, but this was a test while experimenting with some aspects of capture automation.
Happy birthday to Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life and career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant, & purposely stood in the way of her learning French, or music,
A pertinent question:
Would you rather have NASA or SpaceX?
APOD from 2025-03-15
Tololo Totality
On Pi day, March 14, the Full #Moon underwent a total #lunar #eclipse, passing through #Earth's shadow. A composite image from Chile shows the eclipse phases with vivid colors and a bluish tint from ozone-filtered sunlight at the edge.
HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250315.html#space #astronomy #planet
A couple years ago #NASA had an article answering a common question about how many digits of pi they use for their calculations. While pi can be computed (with ever-increasing amount of effort) to almost any number of digits, for navigation of space probes they only need 16. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/ #PiDay #space #math #astronomy #tech
We may not have been able to see yesterday’s total lunar eclipse here in central Europe, but I’ll take tonight’s Moon as a compensation
Good night everyone & remember that we are all just ephemeral refugees from the same cosmic recycling bin
The debate over definition of planets can become relevant back home. By some definitions, the Moon could be considered a planet. It's a round planetary body. Since it orbits the Earth, it's obviously just a moon. Except it's big enough that as it gets farther away (a few cm each Earth year), there's a point where their center of gravity can go outside the Earth. Any definition that makes the Moon a planet, makes the Earth-Moon system a binary planet. #astronomy
"Planet Definitions" by XKCD comic (mirror bots @xkcd @xkcdbot ) - All the definitions of a planet, whether they've earned representation or not. https://xkcd.com/3063/ #astronomy #planetary #asteroid #geology #oops #WTF #humor
I will share more information soon regarding the site visit to #SURF, a sister underground laboratory to #SNOLAB. I want to share now that the "Deep Talk" lecture I delivered last night at the SURF Visitor Centre was an incredible experience. I was especially excited to be able to personally interact with over a dozen audience members. This included an awesome small-group Q&A session after the formal event.
Watch the lecture online: