Mars getting smaller, a few weeks after its opposition.

Another attempt at Mars, as it's getting far away from us, and visibly smaller.

Images taken with my SkyMax 180 and ASI178MM with RGB filters.

A couple of close up of the Moon, around the craters Copernicus and Plato.

Moon, Copernicus crater, one of the most prominent of our satellite.

Nearby is also visible the crater Eratosthenes.

Shot with my SkyMax 180, ASI 178MM

Moon, the area around Plato crater (the biggest in this image, with an "ear" to its right).

Above it, slightly to the left, there's Cassini, a medium sized crater with two smaller craters inside (Cassini A and B).

Separating the two, the Montes Alpes, with the Vallis Alpes within, then Mont Blanc.

To the far left, another two big craters, Aristotelest (the biggest) and Eudoxus.

To the top/right, the vast plain of Mare Imbrium.

The Red Planets a few days before its 2020 opposition, one of the closest in years.

The target of the month, in two versions: a RGB combination (left), and with an IR-pass filter (right).

Jupiter, a few weeks after its 2020 opposition.

Finally got a decent night for imaging Jupiter and Saturn, very low here in the UK (just around 15 degrees above the horizon).

Seeing was terrible, but I'm still relatively satisfied with the results, given how difficult these planets are this year from this latitude.

Visible Jupiter moons: Ganymede (left) and Io (right).

Saturn a few weeks after its opposition, August 2020.

Finally got a decent night for imaging Jupiter and Saturn, very low here in the UK (just around 15 degrees above the horizon).

Seeing was terrible, but I'm still relatively satisfied with the results, given how difficult these planets are this year from this latitude.

Given the unusual stride of sunny days and clear nights, and the lockdown in force, forcing me to stay indoors instead of searching for dark places, but also offering more time for imaging at the same time, I decided to take a few steps in doing more "garden astrophotography".

This is my first experiment with some new equipment: an Optolong L-Enhance narrowband filter, and a iOptron CEM40. The first allows me to image many targets even from heavily light polluted skies (here in London, Bortle 8 or 9), the latter allows for longer exposures, a necessity using narrowband.

Given the unusual stride of sunny days and clear nights, and the lockdown in force, forcing me to stay indoors instead of searching for dark places, but also offering more time for imaging...

After a long break in image processing, I'm taking advantage of this quarantine to dust off my images from my trip to Namibia.

I almost forgot I still had this one, already half processed, so it didn't take me too long to finish and publish it.

One of the most beautiful objects of the southern hemisphere: Omega Centauri

Omega Centauri from Namibia

Just a quick snap done with a small 60mm telescope and my Canon EOS 80D during April's 2020 conjunction between the bright planet and the Pleiades.

Just a quick snap done with a small 60mm telescope and my Canon EOS 80D during April's 2020 conjunction between the bright planet and the Pleiades.

This is a relatively rare encounter, occuring only every 8 years, always in April.

The nebulosity around the Pleiades is completely outshined by Venus, the brightest object in the sky except for the Sun and the Moon.

I had a Saturday stroll in Gunnesbury Triangle. It's a tiny natural reserve, very close to my place.

I didn't get lots of sightings this time (probably need to go much earlier in the morning, or later on in the evening, when birds are more active), but I caught this little fluffy robin singing and taking a bath in a pond.