Remarkable Astrophotography Images

Blogged by Xiao Sun on May 14, 2010 and tagged with Sample Images, Moon, Saturn, Mars, Mosaic, Sun.

The following planetary images were submitted by Efrain Morales, a Puerto Rican astrophotographer. Efrain has been exploring the night sky with his DMK 21AF04.AS astronomy camera for years. He is also a frequent contributor to this astronomy cameraera blog.

Mars from Jan to Feb 2010

Saturn with its Satellites

Lunar Crater Moretus

These images consist of Mars in a one month imaging cycle (January 13th thru February 17th) consisting when mars was closest to earth (27th, Jan.) and the (30th, Jan.) when closest to the Sun, Also with a storm at the north polar hood.

Second image of Saturn with some of its principle moons Titan, Dione, Tethys and a sequence of past images showing the planets angle changes.

Third image of the moon crater Moretus a close-up and a composition mosaic of four panels. All images taken with the DMK 21AF04.AS camera.

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