Most stars you see in the night sky are actually made up of multiple stars – in fact, about 85% of stars are made up of at least two star systems (binary star) and...
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Processing Slooh.com PNG Images on Your Phone or iPad – The Basics
Many of us today are using mobile devices like Android phones, iPhones, and iPads to do things like login to Slooh.com and book missions. While this is very helpful, especially when you are away...
Colorized Waxing Gibbous Moon with Stars
This is the waxing gibbous moon, 8 days past new, as seen on October 14, 2021: The darker regions are called Mare, meaning ‘sea’ in Latin – these are regions formed as a result...
Full Moon
This is the full moon as seen on September 20 2021 from Slooh.com’s Canary Islands observatory: The darker regions on the moon are called Mare, or ‘sea’ in Latin. These Mare formed as a...
Waxing Crescent Moon
This is the waxing crescent moon as it appeared on September 9, 2021. Many of the features you see on the moon are impact craters – there are about 9,000 of them. The darker...
Sun: Huge Active Regions
This is the lower half of the sun as it appeared on September 7, 2021: The sunspots shown here are the biggest we have seen in many years. They are AR 2866 on the...
Messier 57 – Ring Nebula – in LRGB and Narrowband
While most of my images are in broadband/LRGB, I also image in narrowband. I decided to take another look at Messier 57 both in broadband/LRGB and narrowband to see what the result might be....
Sun: July 22 2021 – 6 Active Regions
This is the sun as it appeared on July 22, 2021: The surface features six active regions – we haven’t seen that many active regions at once in a very long time. Here’s an...
Sun: AR2837
This is the sun on June 29, 2021 featuring sunspot AR2037: The sunspot developed today, is unipolar, and is made up of just one active region. This sunspot joins two others on the lower...
Sun: Eclipse and AR2832 – June 10 2021
This is the sun as it appeared during the eclipse of June 10, 2021, as seen from the Canary Islands: There are two interesting features in this image: The moon, blocking part of the...
