#watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #nightsky #silhouette #landscape #art #painting
If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. A detail of Richard Riemerschmid's ever-evocative "Ghost clouds".
Six Superb Award-Winning Photos Showcase Groundbreaking Science https://petapixel.com/2025/05/21/six-superb-award-winning-photos-showcase-groundbreaking-science/ #photojournalism #photocontest #competition #documentary #Spotlight #nightsky #wildlife #contest #science #nature #whales #frogs #News
About 1 trillion stars, located 21 million l-y away from us, and featuring a diameter 2.5 times larger than the Milky Way: this is M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, and I can capture it, with total impunity, with a 103 mm off the shelf telescope. If this is not mind boggling, then what is?
Skydiving under the light of the silvery moon from an airplane is cool enough...but what about from one of those "future-copters", as some have called them...under the light of *two* moons? My own take on a scene that may well be our future: "A moonslit airdrop".
NEW #Astrophoto: Messier 51 Whirlpool Galaxy
At the height of this year’s galaxy season, I finally captured my first image of the stunning Whirlpool #Galaxy (Messier 51).
Full story: https://astrocamp.eu/en/whirlpool-galaxy-0425/
▼ Vixen VC200L | Canon EOS R(a) '25
Hoping for some clear nights this week.
May's best stargazing week is about to begin.
How to see a lion, an upside-down bear, a mini 'planet parade' — and more.
The sky knows you, even if none of the mortals ever will...
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach's "Question to the Stars".
The Fire Island lighthouse looking strong as the full moon rises and lights up the night sky. Pure magic. #fireislandlighthouse #fireislandnationalseashore #photography #nightphotography #beachlife #nightsky #fullmoon #fullmoonrise
NEW #Astrophoto: Messier 81 Widefield
#Galaxy Messier 81 and surroundings in widefield!
Luminance captured at Hohen List, RGB taken earlier in Koblenz.
6h20m total exposure – a great showcase of what this scope-camera combo can do.
Full story: https://astrocamp.eu/en/messier-81-widefield-march-25/
▼ Baader Apo 95 Travel Companion | SkyEye62AM '25
I dare say it's inspiring, even trippy. Imagine trees so big and skies so alien that you climb and luxuriate in a world like this. Makes you feel anything is possible...
"Tree climbing under a dragon dark nebula in blue", by yours truly.
NGC 2976 is a galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major, approximately 11.6 million light-years from Earth, and reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight and is best observed in mid February.
Detailed Information: https://astrocamp.eu/ngc2976
▼ Baader Apo 95 Travel Companion | SkyEye62AM '25