I recently received an “on this day” notification with my first photo of Jupiter: Here are my latest pictures, taken 367 days later: I captured an image every 30 seconds to create this timelapse showing Europa’s transit over a period of 37 minutes.

I managed to capture a nice sharp view of Saturn with five (maybe seven) moons resolved.

I pointed my tiniest lens straight up and managed to catch the milky way and thousands of stars. By eye only a tiny fraction of these stars appear. The glow around the edges is from light pollution, washing out detail in the sky.

My sharpest Saturn yet and a noisy capture of the Eagle Nebula

This is a pair of mosiacs of the moon around the full moon. The one from the 31st is sharper (turns out I had a pinched corrector plate, and corrected between this images) and has the saturation cranked up to emphasize the color variations across the surface. I also attempted to get an image during…

This was a rough night with equipment trouble and early dew. So I only got a few shots in.

Jupiter is finally starting to rise before it gets too late. I aimed my scope at it at the end of the session and noticed a shadow spot from Io, so I recorded a time lapse covering about 10 minutes. The shadow is obvious, and Io can just be seen as a light spot moving…

I decided to try finding some new solar system targets. Most of the larger asteroids weren’t out but I was able to spot Hygiea. I also managed to image Neptune and Triton.

This is a portion of the eagle nebula, captured in Hubble’s famous Pillars of Creation image. I managed to get about 10 minutes of exposure before conditions worsened. This was taken at low altitude through the Detroit light dome, hopefully I can see it in dark skies some day.