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Iapetus pass in front of Saturn, next rendez-vous : 2052! 2 days ago, Iapetus passed in front of Saturn and it's very rare, next rendez-vous is in 2052. It's very small, just 0,23", it's about the size of a coin at 20 km. I made this image from my balcony in Paris. Fortunatly seeing was good t...

Hi, you are right, a line is visible on the planet. I've tryed to avoid it without success. I don't realy know why does le software add this when it create the animation but it corresponds to the logitude 0° of the global map that I've made before producing the video. https://asterisk.apod.com/downl...

Global map of Jupiter from my balcony in Paris https://twitter.com/JLucDauvergne Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne polarsud5noirs.jpg polarmap99s.jpg 2021-10-10to14s.jpg Larger image : http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/2021-10-10to14s.jpg The video done with these dat is visible here : https://you...

Global map of Mars - 2020 opposition JL Dauvergne : https://twitter.com/JLucDauvergne Thierry Legault : http://www.astrophoto.fr/index_fr.html Copyright: © F. Colas /J.L. Dauvergne / G. Dovillaire / T. Legault / G. Blanchard / B. Gaillard / D. Baratoux / A, Klotz / S2P / IMCCE / OMP / Imagine Optic...

[bA giant summer[/b] https://twitter.com/JLucDauvergne Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne it would be a good time to publish an APOD with Jupiter and Saturn to encourage people to observe them. They are close to each other in the sky and we are near opposition (July 14th ofr Jupiter and July 21 for Satu...

NEOWISE FROME France on July 17th https://twitter.com/JLucDauvergne Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/24mmbranches.jpg http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/stack30s85mm.jpg http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/_L_D9453.jpg http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/tem...

NEOWISE is easely visible with the naked eye from Paris
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i53Ejcc8buw This video is made of 638 picture of the mook taken during April lunation. In order to make the lockdown more fun, Ciel et Espace magazine have invited people on social networks to take a picture of the moon every day during April lunation, and publish it...

Aurora from an A380 https://twitter.com/JLucDauvergne Auroras seen from an Airbus A380 (Air France) few nights ago (january 27th to 28th 2020). We were between Canada and Greenland. Copyright: JL Dauvergne http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp2/DSC08618_1.jpg http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp...

planetary marathon from my balcony in Paris https://twitter.com/JLucDauvergne Copyright: JL Dauvergne http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/JLD/eclipse16juillet2.jpg 3 nights ago the sky was clear in Paris during the lunar eclipse. The seeing was also good, so I mostly observed Jupiter and Saturn, but ...

I was at Tololo during the total solar eclipse, and we made a video with Arnaud Thiry (Astronogeek), using a drone and other cameras. Astronogeek is a french famous youtube chanel with more than 500 000 followers. The guy that you can see in the video with his telescope is a friend of us, Nicolas Le...

Eclipse from Tololo
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Copyright: JL Dauvergne / Ciel et Espace

Noctulescent clouds over Paris Yesterday night we and a very bright apparition of NLC in the sky of Paris. It's the most important one since 2009. It confirms that this activity at low latitude is related to the activity of the sun, it appens only around the minimum of solar activity. It also illus...

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Total Eclipse of the Moon from Paris http://astrophotography.fr Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne https://www.youtube.com/user/jldauvergne77 http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/JLD/apodDSC07575.jpg http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/JLD/apodDSC07564.jpg http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/JLD/apodDSC07556.j...

Hello recently I've done a set of time lapses with a Nikon D850 that allowed me to make some 4K time lapses of the Pic du Midi in France. You can see the clouds playing with the mountains. It's fantastic as usal on top of this mountain. Crédit : Jean-Luc Dauvergne / Ciel et Espace https://www.youtub...

The very faint Gegenschein light http://www.astrophotography.fr Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne large.picdumidiairglowzodiacallight.jpg.c6c754bb315b8c8678350bb89f2ff206[1].jpg http://astrosurf.com/uploads/monthly_2017_11/large.picdumidiairglowzodiacallight.jpg.c6c754bb315b8c8678350bb89f2ff206.jpg The...

Outbreak of the North Temperate Belt of Jupiter http://www.astrophotography.fr/wp/ Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne / François Colas / S2P IMCCE At the end of October, Glenn Orton discovered an outbreak in the NTB of Jupiter with IRTF. Unfortunatly the planet is very close to the Sun and still very di...

Nights with 3 great plantes http://astrophotography.fr/ Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne / E Kraaikamp / François Colas / IMCCE / S2P / OMP http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/ia90sewn.jpg These days, we have the lucke to have 3 planets visible in the sky. All of them are nearly at the best place t...

Encke Gap seen from the ground http://astrophotography.fr/ Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne / E Kraaikamp / François Colas / IMCCE / S2P / OMP [img2]http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/2016-05-21-0017_7-IRELIe-3_g6_ap38TRAITEEEMIL.jpgimg2] Encke gap is known to be very hard to see inside the Saturn...

Pic du Midi support Junocam http://astrophotography.fr/ Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne / François Colas / IMCCE / S2P / OMP http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/2016-05-20-2020_7-L-9_g6_ap36.jpg http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/2016-05-20-1957_4-IRELIe.jpg Just one week after the great works...

Mars at opposition http://astrophotography.fr/ Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne / Emil Kraaikamp / François Colas / IMCCE / OMP / S2P http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/2016-05-20-2332_4-IR807-3_g6_ap15-copie.jpg FOr the 2016 opposition, the Pic du Midi has observed Mars. It was less than 2 days b...

A hot river in Reykjafjall Mountain http://astrophotography.fr/ Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne How said that you have to be freezed to watch northern lights :) ? In the Reykjafjall Mountain, many hots springs and hots rivers can be found. It's possible to have a bath in this hot weater (around 40°C)...

End of the season of the northern lights http://astrophotography.fr/ Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne In country like Iceland, there is no astronomical dawn after mid-april. Du to that, it's possible to see wonderfull nothern light also with the colorfull lights of dawn. Within few weeks it will not b...

northern light at Jokulsarlon
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Classical but still impressive, a northern light at Jokulsarlon. Light of dawn is still visible.