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Astronomy, Atmosphere, Climate, Earth

Rare and Beautiful Noctilucent Clouds Wow Over Holland – Gallery

5 Jul , 2014 by Ken Kremer

A trio of talented Dutch astrophotographers have captured a series of magnificent views of the rare and beautiful phenomena known as Noctilucent Clouds, or NLCs, during a spectacular outburst on the night of July 3, 2014 in the dark skies over southern Holland – coincidentally coinciding with the fireworks displays of the Dutch 2014 FIFA […]

amateur astrophotos, Astronomy, Astrophotos, mesosphere, NLCs, noctilucent clouds

Astronomy, Astrophotos, Jupiter, Observing, Skywatching

An Amazing Capture of Jupiter and its Moons

15 Jan , 2014 by David Dickinson

It’s always a thrill to watch the action at Jupiter, as its moons pass in front of and behind the gas giant planet. We wrote recently about this month’s opposition of Jove on January 5th, marking the start of the Jupiter evening viewing season for 2014.  Astrophotographer Michael A. Philips also recently undertook a challenging […]

amateur astronomy, amateur astrophotos, astrophotography, double shadow transits, jovian moons, Jupiter

Astrophotos, Extrasolar Planets

First Amateur Image of Another Solar System

25 Nov , 2011 by Nancy Atkinson

Amateur astronomer Rolf Wahl Olsen from New Zealand shared an image with Universe Today, and it is perhaps the first image of another solar system taken by an amateur. The image above is Olsen’s image of the protoplanetary disc around Beta Pictoris. “For the last couple of years I have been wondering if it was […]

amateur astronomy, amateur astrophotos, Beta Pictoris

Astronomy, Astrophotos, Meteor Showers

Send Us Your Perseid Images!

12 Aug , 2011 by Nancy Atkinson

[/caption] This weekend should be the peak of the 2011 Perseid meteor shower. If you have any luck taking images of the event, we’d love to see them and share them with the world! To enable this, Universe Today has started a Flickr Group, where people can upload their astrophotos, which will make it easier […]

amateur astrophotos, Astrophotos, Meteorwatch, perseid meteor shower

Astrophotos, Space Flight

Amateur Astronomer Images X37-B Space Plane in Orbit

28 May , 2010 by Nancy Atkinson

[/caption] Even since amateur astronomers picked up on the orbit of the Air Force’s secret X37-B space plane, others have been trying to capture images of the mini-space shuttle look-alike. So far, images have been just streaks or dots, but Universe Today reader Brent (a.k.a. HelloBozos) was actually able to image the plane in some […]

amateur astrophotos, X37-B

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