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Equipment: Canon 6D Mark II, Sigma 150-600mm lens (corona) + Celestron 5SE, ZWO ASI174MM (prominences and Bailey’s Beads).

The total solar eclipse over the 800 year old Burgos Cathedral from Spain. This final result contains much more data from the multiple exposures of the solar corona, even revealing the night side of the Moon.

Equipment: Canon 6D Mark II, Sigma 150-600mm lens.

I present my finest ever production in my career as an astrophotographer — and my first ever total solar eclipse.

This image shows the solar corona, the outermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere made up of an ultra-hot, glowing plasma halo that extends millions of kilometers into space. The Moon’s surface is visible as well, illuminated by the light of a “Full Earth”.

To capture the bright inner corona and its much fainter outer structures, I used a technique called bracketing; layering different exposure lengths into a single image in order to preserve the enormous dynamic range of totality.

Equipment: Canon 6D Mark II, Sigma 150-600mm lens. 7 exposures from 1/2000s to 1.5s bracketed and stacked.

It is with great satisfaction that I present only the second ever photograph in recorded history resolving the ISS and Venus together — the first being my NASA APOD-winning image in April of last year. This new photo will be titled “Worlds Apart”.

Planned and captured yesterday evening from a park in Edmonds, Washington at 6:38:05 PM PDT (a precise location and time that I calculated these objects would align), the result shows a detailed International Space Station passing within just fractions of a degree of the 62% illuminated planet Venus in the daytime sky.

Because they’re separated by hundreds of millions of kilometers, the size difference is canceled out, giving the station and planet very similar apparent sizes. In reality, one is the size of a football stadium, while the other, the size of Earth.

Equipment: C9.25, ZWO ASI662MC, UV/IR cut filter.

Processing: ASICapture, AutoStakkert, Registax6, GIMP, Lightroom.

Equipment: Lunt Ls50Tha telescope, ZWO ASI174MM camera, Televue 2.5x Powermate. 30 seconds of data at 10ms 40 gain, stacked on AutoStakkert, deconvoluted on IMPPG, curves on Paint.net.

Captured under excellent conditions just hours ago, I present my sharpest view of the Lord of the Rings so far this year.

With an hour of data and around 45,000 total frames combined, this image reveals hints of the Maxwell Gap in the ring system, and a clear view of Cassini and Encke. Two moons are also visible in the image — Enceladus and Tethys.

C9.25”, ZWO ADC, Celestron X-Cel 2x Barlow, UV/IR cut filter + IR685nm filter, ZWO ASI662MC.

Yesterday evening, four worlds aligned in our sky during dusk — the Moon, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury.

These planets aren’t actually aligned in the Solar System, but rather appear so because of their relative positions on the ecliptic.

Having four of them appear this close together in the sky is a rare event, so get out and try spotting the three planets towards the West while you can!

Equipment: Canon EOS 6D, 100-300mm lens.

Yesterday afternoon, two worlds millions of miles apart touched in our sky. As the Moon orbited Earth, it passed in front of the planet Venus in an event known as an “occultation”.

Venus is visible during the daytime with the unaided eye, with no binoculars or telescope needed. The video at the end shows a standard iPhone recording clearly showing the planet next to the crescent Moon.

Venus is 4 times wider than our Moon, but appears much smaller because of its extreme distance — in fact it currently sits on the other side of our Solar System.

I captured these images from my home near Seattle Washington — this rare event was actually visible for practically all of North America.

🔭: C9.25, ASI662MC.

I am stoked to present this capture of the International Space Station crossing above the Moon’s cratered southern wasteland this Thursday under phenomenal seeing conditions.

Being my third ISS-lunar transit in 2026 after a 2 years dry spell to kick off my career, this image is the sharpest yet, and highlights the solar arrays, panels, and different modules and labs of the ISS.

Equipment: C9.25, ZWO ASI294MC + ASI662MC, IR685nm + UV/IR cut filter.

Settings: 0.75ms exposure, 240 gain.

Processing: Captured on ASICap, stacked on Autostakkert, wavelets on Registax6, adjustments on Adobe PS Express.