Isn’t it cool that the Moon and the Sun share the same apparent size?
A couple others in here, the Very Large Array is well worth a visit in New Mexico and a couple aurora shots from this past Fall in BC Canada and Idaho
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Nice prominence capture right at 6 o’clock
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when I was living in Vancouver, I was worked p/t at Vancouver Telescope for about 4 or 5 years. I have some nice stuff…80ED, Feathertouch Crayford w/ Televue clamshell, a Lunt 60, pressure tuned, single stack, standard Crayford focuser and helical ep focuser and then a Celestron C90 spotting scope…one of the older designs, armored, flip cap and sealed flip mirror for both straight through and 90-degree ep placement.
alas, I moved to the westest place in Canada where it’s generally cloudy even when not raining. historically we get maybe 30 days of sun. like I said, I wanna sell so I can get a microscope. 
I still have a Televue Pronto 70mm doublet and a couple of his 2" Nagler eyepieces that are probably worth more now than when I bought them as they’re no longer made…I should see what someone would give me for them. I haven’t used it for many years. Too heavy and needs a decent mount that I don’t have.
At some point it all just becomes ‘stuff’. A burden.
iPhone and Seestar are my travel companions now.
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I want to get the Skywatcher AZ-GTi…easy as pie to setup and dial in.
AZ-GTi Mount — Sky-Watcher USA
my dad has been thinking about a Seestar…he lives in Edmonton, but can get to parks and such with apparent dark skies that lets him see basic things, but having a Seestar would let him see a lot more. he’s not a photography…neither am I, we’re both watchers; we wanna see stuff! 
FYI, Seestar is not for visual use. The aperture is too small. Only bright objects (Moon, Sun, very few astro targets beyond that) don’t require stacking images. Even Orion Nebula is 40 mins. of stacked images, one every 10 seconds.
It’s not for planetary use either. Focal length is too short. Planets just look like a guy with a flashlight way out there :-
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yep. we know. but good you clarified that since others following this might not have known.
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NICE!
can you make a copy of that where it’s 1000 x 1000 so I can use it as my desktop background?
I´ll just send you the original file and you do with it whatever you want
It´s heavily cropped as in a need of money i sold my longest telephote lens a year ago…i only used it for the moon every once in a while so it was mostly lying around…but now i miss it every time the sky is clear 
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All the sides of Luna. Well done.
For all you space nerds, APOD is a very long running mailing list. A daily email with an astro photo and description. I’ve received this since the mid '90s before the web was a thing.
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CRIMEY! APOS has been sharing photo’s since the dark ages and looking at their site, it’s dark age era looking to boot!
Yep. Effective though. The daily email is the key. I rarely go to the site but to look at something I missed or deleted the email and then wanted to know more about.
Curious about all the varying modem negotiation tones over the dark ages? https://archive.goughlui.com/legacy/soundofmodems/index.htm
that’s a sound I am glad I don’t have to deal with anymore, LoL!
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html
This is good site for solar info. Nice to now when comms or power grid could be impacted.
We have some massive coronal hole(s) on the surface of the Sun. Get out there and image it.
Pretty wild one today on APOD. LEDA 1313424 aka Bullseye Galaxy is about two and a half times the size of our own Milky Way.
The Bullseye Galaxy lies some 567 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces. At that distance, this stunning Hubble image would span about 530,000 light-years.
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I love the ‘Most Important Image Ever Taken’ video on YouTube.
the picture you see at the end is a spot in the night sky that’s no bigger than a pinhead held out at arm’s length. ARM’s LENGTH!!! we’re talking fractions of a mm. 
The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken
edit - btw, persist through the surprise bit you are not expecting… 
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…and now with the added spectrum from the James Webb a more complete picture can be painted of so much we don’t yet know…
I’ve been following all things space since I was a kid when the Voyager probes launched.
Strange times, NASA is currently asking for ‘anyone’ that can send the already built Moon rover to the Moon. Its mission is to scout for water ice…so we can use it to establish a ‘settlement’/outpost. Hydrogen and oxygen are pretty useful.
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