My best Jupiter capture, from Oct 2023. 30 minute time lapse featuring the Great Red Spot. Imaged with a Meade 14” Lx200 at f/20 from La Crescenta, CA.
#Astrophotography 🔭

The bright red nebulosity near top left is the Herbig-Haro object HH103.📚

This "small cluster" contains around 130 stars less than one million years old. These baby stars are very energetic and emit a copious amount of radiation that breaks apart the clouds of natal gas that surrounds them. The edges of this newly formed cavity glows pink due to the excited hydrogen gas.

I enjoy the midnight sun as much as the next girl but, I really miss the stars this time of year.

Just as I was running out of excuses. Thanks.

The image was taken at the observatory of IAS at Hakos Farm in Namibia.

This star cradle lies about 1000 ly away, between the California Nebula and the Pleiades. It consists of a reflection nebula and a cluster of 400 young stars, together with parts of the molecular cloud from which the stars were born. The brightest star is Atik (Omicron Persei).

To be fair, its distance became gradually more insane. 🙂