Astronomical League

Bringing together the amateur astronomy community and to promote astronomical education and observation to the nation

[Astro Ben 📸✨ I take photos of space 🔭 @bbroastro]

Messier 94, The Cat’s Eye Galaxy ✨

I photographed this across two nights from my garden 🔭💫

#astronomy #astrophotography #space #galaxy #stargazing

[David Eicher @deicherstar]

Adjacent to the famous Horsehead Nebula, NGC 2023 is an emission and reflection nebula that lies 1,300 light-years away. Part of the Orion Molecular Cloud, it is a delight in amateur telescopes. Credit: ESO

[Jason Major @JPMajor]

Sunset on Mars imaged by NASA's Pathfinder mission on July 28, 1997 (mission sol 24)

[Dr. Ryan French @RyanJFrench]

BOOM! I haven't see anybody share this yet, so here's last week's X-class solar flare, as observed by the @NASA IRIS mission. Look at those beautiful flare ribbons! #spaceweather @NASASun

[Bits of Jupiter 𝗂𝗌 𝗈𝗇 𝖻𝗌𝗄𝗒 @JupiterBits]

A bit of #Jupiter (@NASAJuno / @SwRI / MSSS / David Marriott)

[ALMA Observatory📡 @almaobs]

Who did this?👀

[ＣＯＮＴＡＣＴ ＬＩＧＨＴ 。 ◯ *・ @contactlight69]

The Legacy of #Apollo6
Apollo 6 (also known as AS-502), launched on April 4, 1968, was the second A-type mission of the United States Apollo program, an uncrewed test of the Saturn V launch vehicle. It was also the final uncrewed Apollo test mission.

https://t.co/HSGYtbdwGE

[Javier Caldera @cld_visuals]

Galaxia Remolino / M51 fotografiada desde Cáceres, Extremadura.
- 40x240”, 2h 40min.
- Star Adventurer 2i, Evostar 72ED, Canon 1300D, QHY 5l-II Color.

Para mas imágenes sígueme en Instagram: @astrocld

[Thomas Zurbuchen @Dr_ThomasZ]

Recently, scientists at @NASA_Johnson opened the last pristine core lunar sample of Apollo 17. Thanks to NASA’s @Astromaterials 3D project, you too can view these samples and other Apollo-era Moon samples in unprecedented resolution and detail.

More: https://t.co/RpD9ANxSpa

[Planetary Geomorpho @PlanetGeomorpho]

The @IAGAIG Planetary Geomorphology Image of the Month for April is now available! This month, Dr Matthew Chojnacki describes widespread megaripple activity across the north-polar ergs of Mars. https://t.co/ZAi4Xw9NFi

[Con Stoitsis @vivstoitsis]

Potential naked eye comet for Jan 2023. Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF is coming our way and has every chance of being naked eye around Polaris. Northern hemisphere only. Courtesy Colin Harris.

[ARCHIVED: NASA's Exploration Ground Systems @NASAGroundSys]

Wet dress rehearsal is scrubbed for today. We are unable to provide positive pressure to the enclosed areas within the mobile launcher and keep out hazardous gases. Technicians are unable to safely proceed with loading without this capability. Looking at a 24 hr turnaround.-JP

[Jason Major @JPMajor]

Saturn's 40 km-wide, UFO-shaped moon Atlas imaged by #Cassini on December 6, 2015

[Bits of Jupiter 𝗂𝗌 𝗈𝗇 𝖻𝗌𝗄𝗒 @JupiterBits]

A bit of #Jupiter (@NASAJuno / @SwRI / MSSS / "Shanhuang-48")

[Matt Smith @AstroNameHere]

3% Moon and Earthshine from just after sunset tonight.
#moon #Astrophotography

[Con Stoitsis @vivstoitsis]

Inner tails and outer coma of the comet Hale-Bopp taken exactly 25 years ago at about 3150m altitude on the Gornergrat plateau.

Analog picture:
Celestron 8 (1260mm-f.l. f/6.3), Kodak EPP 100 hypered film, 1997 April 1/2.

Credit: @sebastianvoltmer

[Astronomical League @AstronLeague]

AAAAAAND WE’RE BACK!

[DSCOVR:EPIC @dscovr_epic]

11:29 on Saturday December 25th, over the South Atlantic Ocean

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Hubble Deep Field : This photo was taken by focusing the Hubble Telescope in the emptiest part of space for 10 days. Every blip in this photo is not a star, it's an entire galaxy

[Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell]

Good news: The @NASAWebb space telescope has released its main antenna (3.5 gigabytes/sec) and completed its first, critical course correction. Webb is 23% of the way to its destination at the L2 point. https://t.co/d1f38O6Vb0