Starship Asterisk*

Some lunar mosaics under excellent seeing conditions using a homemade 14inch F/5 Newtonian and ASI120MM-S camera. The details at the surface are around 600 meters, while some 300-400 meters rimae are also visible. The Ina-Hadley image shows Ina volcano (lower right) with some details! Clavius area: ...

Venus and sunspot AR2403. The image is a mosaic of two different shots acquired with almost the same equipment. The AR2403 complex was near the solar limb in the image acquired on August 28, while Venus was two weeks after inferior conjunction. https://maximusphotography.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/...

An image of comet Q2 Lovejoy from January 13th, in close proximity to M45. It will be closer to the Pleiades in a few days, and under dark skies it will be possible to catch the comet's tail over this open cluster. The image is a 9 frames stack, each a 4 minute exposure at ISO800 with a Canon 550D a...