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✨ Let's explore space 🌌 | NRW 🇩🇪
📸 Deep Sky • Planetary • Stars • Nebulae
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09/08/2026

☄️ Comet 220P/McNaught
A periodic visitor to the inner Solar System — 220P/McNaught, captured from Germany on August 8, 2026.
The comet is currently displaying a striking green coma and a delicate tail against the surrounding star field. Its characteristic green glow is caused mainly by glowing diatomic carbon (C₂) in the coma.
At the time of this image, 220P/McNaught was approximately 184 million km from Earth. It is still approaching us and will make its closest approach to Earth on October 12, 2026, when it will be approximately 152 million km away.
The comet passed its closest point to the Sun on June 14, 2026, and, as a periodic comet, returns to the inner Solar System roughly every 5.5 years.
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🔭 Newton 254/1016 Carbon Photon
🔭 Microspeed Guidingscope 60mm
📟 EQ6-R Pro
🎥 2600MC Pro|ASI 120MM Mini
⚙️ Asiair Mini|ZWO EAF
💡Bortle2
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60x60sec. RGB | Gain 100
Total Integration: 1h
Bin1x1 | -10C°
Darks|DarkFlats|Flats
Processed with PixInsight
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astrofotografia .de .eu ESA - European Space Agency NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

04/08/2026

A rare opportunity for astronomy: On August 5, 2026, the spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage is expected to impact the lunar surface. The stage originally launched on January 15, 2025, carrying Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 and ispace's HAKUTO-R Mission 2 “RESILIENCE” lunar landers. After completing its mission, it remained in a highly elliptical Earth orbit crossing the Moon's path. More than 18 months later, it is predicted to strike the Moon near Einstein Crater at approximately 2.43 km/s (≈ 8,700 km/h).

For scientists, this is a unique research opportunity. It could become the first artificial impact on the sunlit side of the Moon observed in real time, allowing researchers to study the impact flash, the ejecta plume, and the behavior of lunar regolith. The observations will help improve impact models and provide valuable data for assessing hazards to future robotic and human lunar missions.

The event can, in principle, be observed from anywhere the Moon is above the horizon at the predicted impact time. Telescopes equipped with high-speed cameras offer the best chance of recording the brief impact flash or the expanding dust plume. However, the actual brightness of the event remains uncertain, making this a truly exciting observation for both professional and amateur astronomers.

Ein seltener Moment für die Astronomie: Am 5. August 2026 wird die ausgebrannte Oberstufe einer SpaceX Falcon 9 voraussichtlich auf der Mondoberfläche einschlagen. Sie startete am 15. Januar 2025 und brachte die Mondlander Blue Ghost Mission 1 (Firefly Aerospace) sowie HAKUTO-R Mission 2 „RESILIENCE“ (ispace) auf ihren Weg zum Mond. Nach dem Aussetzen der Nutzlast verblieb die Oberstufe auf einer hochelliptischen, mondkreuzenden Umlaufbahn und wird nun – mehr als eineinhalb Jahre später – mit etwa 2,43 km/s (≈ 8.700 km/h) nahe des Einstein-Kraters auf der beleuchteten Mondseite einschlagen.

Für Wissenschaftler bietet dieses Ereignis eine außergewöhnliche Gelegenheit: Erstmals könnte ein künstlicher Einschlag auf der sonnenbeleuchteten Mondoberfläche in Echtzeit beobachtet werden. Dabei hoffen Forschende, einen kurzen Lichtblitz und eine

01/08/2026

🐘 Elephant Trunk Nebula (IC 1396A)

This image was captured during my astrophotography trip to Austria, staying in a Dark Sky Apartment beneath an exceptionally dark Bortle 2 sky. What makes this image even more remarkable is that it consists of only about 2 hours of narrowband exposure plus just 12 minutes of RGB data for the stars.

It perfectly demonstrates the incredible combination of a large 10-inch Newtonian telescope and truly dark skies. The larger aperture gathers significantly more light, while the pristine Bortle 2 conditions preserve even the faintest details—allowing an impressive result in surprisingly little integration time.

To me, this image proves that a truly dark sky can be just as valuable as many additional hours of exposure.

The Elephant Trunk Nebula is one of the most spectacular stellar nurseries in the night sky. Its iconic trunk-shaped pillar is made of dense gas and dust, sculpted by the intense radiation from nearby young, massive stars.

📍 Object: IC 1396A (part of the IC 1396 emission nebula)
🌌 Distance: approximately 2,400 light-years
📏 Size: about 20 light-years long
⭐ Age: The region is several million years old, with active star formation occurring over the last 1–3 million years.
♈ Constellation: Cepheus

Hidden inside the dense clouds, new stars are continuously forming. Powerful ultraviolet radiation from nearby massive stars is slowly eroding the cloud, creating the nebula's famous elephant trunk appearance.

🔭 Teleskop-Service Ransburg GmbH Newton 254/1016 Carbon Photon
🔭 Omegon Optics Microspeed Guidingscope 60mm
📟 SkyWatcher USA EQ6-R Pro
🎥 ZWO 2600MC Pro|ASI 120MM Mini
⚙️ ZWO_astronomy Asiair Mini|ZWO EAF
💡Bortle2
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12x60sec. RGB | Gain 100
46x180sec. Dualband Antlia ALP-T 5nm
Total Integration: 2h 30'
Bin1x1 | -10C°
Darks|DarkFlats|Flats
Processed with PixInsight

Passione.Astrofotografia Picastro Sky-Watcher ESA - European Space Agency NASA Astroshop.de Astroshop.eu Dark Sky Apartments

Starless Version

Astrometry

Skymap

Single Shot with My Google Pixel 10 XL Pro

30/07/2026

🌞 Plan your Eclipse 2026 with Totality!
Planning to watch the solar eclipse on August 12, 2026? 🌘

The Totality app is one of the best free tools to prepare for the event. It lets you:
📍 See exactly how the eclipse will look from your location
🕒 Check the start, maximum and end times for your observing site
🌍 Explore interactive eclipse maps through 2050
📊 View detailed eclipse information for any location along the eclipse path
🎥 A detailed YouTube tutorial is also available if you'd like a complete walkthrough of the app.

Whether you're watching from home or traveling to the path of totality, this app helps you plan ahead and make the most of this incredible event.

Have you already downloaded Totality? 🌞📱

Leslie Barrett American Astronomical Society

Handy Tutorial

Interactive maps of future total solar eclipses through 2050

Map of the August 12, 2045 total solar eclipse across Europe.

Map of the August 12, 2045 total solar eclipse across the americas.

Tap a spot in the path of totality - in this example, for the solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 - to pull up a summary of the eclipse at that location:

After tapping the DETAILS button, you get detailed eclipse circumstances there

22/07/2026

My very first Milky Way under truly dark skies. 🌌✨

Captured during our stay at the Dark Sky Apartments in Großsölk, Austria, beneath incredible Bortle 2 skies, this image marks a milestone in my astrophotography journey. It was my very first time experiencing and photographing the Milky Way under skies this dark—and it was absolutely breathtaking 🥰

This final image is the result of the First Night with nearly 70 tracked exposures, each 3 minutes long at ISO 800, revealing the rich dust lanes and colors of our galaxy.

📍 Dark Sky Apartments / Großsölk, Austria 🇦🇹
📷 Canon Deutschland EOS 750D
🌌 Samyang Lens 14mm f/2.8
⭐ Move Shoot Move Nomad Star Tracker
⏱️ SmartTimer - Astrophotography & Time-lapse Smart Timer
🦁 Rollei | Foto- & Videozubehör Lion Rock Traveler Pro Carbon tripod

The Milky Way and the foreground were captured separately and blended together in post-processing. I'm still learning, and I definitely have room to improve when it comes to creating a natural composition between the foreground and the sky—but that's part of the journey, and every image teaches me something new.

➡️ Swipe through the post! The second Post shows the tracked time-lapse, while the following images are single 3-minute exposures—including a few lucky shots with meteors streaking across the sky. ☄️

I Hope you Like it. Clear skies! 🌌✨
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Passione.Astrofotografia Picastro

18/06/2026

✨ Not every astrophotography target has a famous name.

No bright nebula. No giant galaxy. No showpiece object.

Just a small patch of sky in Cygnus.

At first glance, it may look like just stars.
But every point of light in this image tells a different story.
Some stars are larger than our Sun. Some are smaller. Some are younger. Some are older.
A few are relatively close to Earth. Others are hundreds or even thousands of light-years away.
Yet tonight, their light meets here in a single image. ✨
Sometimes, the beauty of the universe isn't found in famous nebulae or galaxies.

And honestly? I think that's worth capturing too. 🌌🔭

📸 60 × 60 seconds ⏱️ Total integration time: 1 hour

Passione.Astrofotografia Picastro Teleskop-Service Ransburg GmbH Astroshop.eu Astroshop.de Omegon Optics SkyWatcher USA Sky-Watcher ZWO_astronomy Zwo Astronomy cameras AU ZWO ESA - European Space Agency NASA

17/06/2026

🌞 Our closest star: the Sun!

Today I tested my new solar filter and captured my very first image of the Sun.

The Sun is the closest star to Earth, located about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles) away.

The dark spots visible on the surface are sunspots — regions of intense magnetic activity that are cooler than their surroundings.

📸 Equipment:
🔭 TS-Optics Photon 10" f/4 Newtonian
📷 ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
☀️ Baader Solar Filter
⚙️SharpCap

What do you think of my first solar image? 🤭

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