Solar system images

Sun on 6th of September 2017. Active regions 2677 and 2678.

Sun on 6th of September 2017. Active regions 2673 and 2674. AR 2673 emitted an X9.3 class solar flare.

Sun on 6th of September 2017.

Asteroid 3122(Florence) on 3th of September 2017. Distance approximately 7 600 000 km and diameter 4.4 km. It orbits the sun every 859 days.It was discovered in the year 1981.

Sun on 15th of June 2016. Active region 2553. Magnetic Class: ALPHA (single polarity spot), Spot Class: Hhx (Symmetrical spot). Zoomed spot is taken from one video frame. Better collimated telescope this time, but coarse focuser tuning causes certain difficulties

Transit of Mercury on 9th of May 2016 18:15. My last image of this transit. Next time will be on 7th of May 2049.

Transit of Mercury on 9th of May 2016 through the Barlow lens.

Transit of Mercury on 9th of May 2016.

Transit of Mercury on 9th of May 2016 14:48. Very first contact was missed due to clouds.

Sun on 11th of May 2015. Active region 2339 produced a strong X2.7 solar flare on 5th of May.

Partial solar eclipse on 20th of March 2015.

Jupiter and two moons on 5th of January 2015.

Jupiter and some moons

Aurora borealis corona and Jupiter on 17th of March 2015.

Center of Aurora borealis corona on 17th of March 2015.

Evening clouds

Rupes recta

Pytheas

22.10.2014: Giant active region 2192.

10.9.2014: Active region 2158.

13.9.2014: AR2158 eruption caused polar lights

C/2013 US10 (Comet Catalina) on 8th of December 2015. Diameter approximately 20km. Magnitude 4.79. Distance about 200 million km and speed 160 000 km/h. Nearest star in picture is HIP 69933.

C/2014 Q2 (Comet Lovejoy) on 10th of February 2015.

C/2014 Q2 (Comet Lovejoy) on 20th of January 2015.

C/2014 Q2 (Comet Lovejoy) in full moonlight on 5 January 2015. Very long-period, 11500 years, comet discovered on 17 August 2014 by Terry Lovejoy.

16.3.2013: non-periodic comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)

Space junk example: Cosmos 540 Rocket body. Launched 1972 from Plesetsk, Russia

Asteroid Vesta and planet Mars

2011: Beginning of this hobby. First image taken with the cell phone and Konuspot-80. Jupiter and it's four biggest moons. Notice huge amount of chromatic aberration.