#Venus photographed this afternoon. The planet appears as a very thin crescent now as it moves between the Earth and Sun on approach to conjunction.

As new #deepskylog sketch of the week, we selected this sketch of the Galaxy IC 2196 in Gemini by Tom Borger. More information can be found here: deepskylog.org/index.php?inde… #sketch #sketchoftheweek #deepsky #astronomy #deepskydrawing #sketches

Messier 100 My take on this gorgeous spiral. For me personally, one of the most beautiful galaxies in the northern sky. 10h42' with the Celestron 8 Fred Oliveira 🧠/7, ToupTek ATR3 CMOS 09000 KPA

Dark Horse Nebula is a large complex that, from Earth's perspective, obscures part of the upper central bulge of the Milky Way in Ophiuchus constellation. The dark Pipe Nebula is part of the complex. 85mm f/2 + EOS 4000D - Pollino National Park/Piano Visitone 1400m SQM 21.8

My second outing for Galaxy Season 2025 is this wider view around M63, sometimes referred to as the Sunflower Galaxy. I managed a run of (unheard of in Scotland!) four clear nights to grab some data on this beautiful galaxy with an OSC and small Newtonian.  Instead of a close-up

Messier 66 of the Leo Triplet. Another one of my personal favourites in the northern sky. 14h worth of data with the C8@f/7, ToupTek ATR3 CMOS 09000 KPA

The Sunflower Galaxy (M63) ✨ Captured with my 200/1000 scope 🔭

Beautiful barred spiral galaxy Messier 109 in a sea of background galaxies. 11h27' with the Celestron C8 @ f/7

NEW #Astrophoto: Messier 97 In March, I added luminance data to my Messier 97 OSC RGB image from 2023. I think the result is quite impressive. Full story: astrocamp.eu/qndom ▼ Vixen VC200L | SkyEye62AM '25 #astrophotography #astronomy #telescope #photography #nature

Mi imagen de la galaxia IC342 en la constelación de la jirafa. Llamada Galaxia Oculta porque está parcialmente oscurecida por polvo interestelar de la Vía Láctea. #AstrofotoPlanetariodeMadrid #cielosESA Agrupación Astronómica Madrid Sur AAMS Planetario de Madrid @RObsMadrid Observatorio UCM Castilla-La Mancha Media Observatorio Astronómico de Calar Alto

Galaxy cluster Abell 1377 in Ursa Major. Lots of tiny faint fuzzies at a staggering distance of 700 million light-years. The two brighter galaxies at the top are NGC 3890 & NGC 3850, at around 120 million light-years not part of the cluster. 6h with the C8 Fred Oliveira 🧠/7

M51 ultra-deep image Taken in 2020, this image is still one of the deepest of this galaxy. Full: flic.kr/p/2kXn4HS Credits: Giuseppe Donatiello (PI), Alessandro Falesiedi, Mario Lovrencie and Tim Stone (Unione Astrofili Italiani - Deep Sky Research Section)

As new #deepskylog sketch of the week, we selected this sketch of the Galaxy M 63 in Canes Venatici by Peter Vercauteren. More information can be found here: deepskylog.org/index.php?inde… #sketch #sketchoftheweek #deepsky #astronomy #deepskydrawing #sketches

Venus this morning under great conditions - my best image to date despite the planet being fairly distant from Earth at the moment. Still hard to believe what's possible from the backyard! 24" Dobsonian and Uranus-M camera. False colour IR(sG)UV mapped to RGB.

After many weeks of clouds: the planetary nebula NGC 7008 in Cygnus, taken during an almost full moon. 5h with the Celestron C8 Fred Oliveira 🧠/7, no filter.

The mighty Messier 101. A full moon project, at least two-thirds of it. Presumably, under a normal sky, half the time would have been sufficient for the same result. :) Celestron C8 Fred Oliveira 🧠/7, 14h 39′ total exposure

NGC 6946 in Cepheus (again) I still don't feel like I'm doing this beautiful galaxy justice, but for now, this is the result for 2025 ;) 14h with the Celestron C8 Fred Oliveira 🧠/7

Finally some (two) clear nights: NGC 7640 in Andromeda 8h21s with the C8@f/7

Beautiful NGC 1530 in Camelopardalis 11h9m with the C8 @ f/7

Maffei 2 is a spiral galaxy at about 10 million light-years. It is is almost invisible to optical telescopes. Foreground dust clouds in the Milky Way block about 99.5% of its visible light, but this NIR-RGB image reveal the galaxy. Donatiello, Faleseidi, Lovrencie (U.A.I.)