Mineral edit of the September's Harvest moon, The Browns are iron and blues are titanium rich areas Photoshop is used only draw out the colours from a very bright supermoon #astronomy.
Your are welcome 😃
They're both visible for a few hours at this phase, the x is the harder one to spot as it only lasts a couple of hours, They're called "clair-obscur" effects and become apparent as the terminator moves across the moon with crests and ridges are lit, here's a better shot from December 2023 👍
First sighting of the moon for me this cycle, and its already well over 7 days old and 45% lit, with the lunar V and X (just past its best) visible #astronomy#moon
So good to see the winter constellations returning to the night sky, especially when joined with the planets. Below is Friday's 4am sky looking east, with Mars, Jupiter and even Uranus in amongst Hyades and the Plaeides clusters. Stellarium screenshot also attached for locations #astronomy#planets
Very true, no harm in studying our nearest star, just use the correct filters 👍
The solar surface, as shot with a DayStar Quark Chromosphere; filter attached to the Skywatatcher 80ed refractor telescope and ZWO ASI224MC cam on 11th August 2024 the huge sunspot, many times larger than Earth was responsible for a huge auroura display just a few days later @astronomy.blue signup
People vote with their feet, or in this case fingers, good to have choices all the same 👍
Phenomenal I'd say 👍