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  Jupiter with three of its moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede).

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  Right in the center of the frame is the globular cluster NGC 7006 in the constellation Delphinus. Its relative size is so small that it could be easily taken for a star unless you zoom in.

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  M45, the Pleiades. I usually like to take this at a shorter focal length so that I can frame all of it. Right now I'm trying to stick with the same equipment from night to night.

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  n the past I've had really abysmal luck with meteor showers. But I did catch a couple of Perseids last night.

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  This is five hours of the Eastern Veil Nebula in Cygnus. I wanted a lot more time to work on it. If I get any more, I'll redo this. But it's not looking good. It's looking like clouds and fog.

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  I had a little bit of clear sky last night to finish this image of the Eastern Veil. I managed to bring it up very close to 9 hours of total exposure time.

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  The moon with Venus tonight.

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  This is the globular cluster M15 in the constellation Pegasus. I was only able to get a little over an hour before the fog came in. I would definitely work on this more if I could get another clear night, but it remains to be seen whether I will.

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  @VA3DSO Thanks, Rick. It's my pleasure to share the images. It would be a lot less fun to take them if nobody cared to see them.

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  The moon and Venus again with a little extra mood thrown in.

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  I finally got enough clear sky to finish that image of (the globular cluster) M15 I was working on.

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  A not entirely successful (it's awfully noisy) image of the comet 10P/Tempel. It's pretty close to the horizon, which is not ideal. I was shooting at a very short focal length, thinking I'd leave room for a tail, but the joke was on me because I couldn't even bring out a tail. I'll try this again in late November when it's higher over the horizon and I don't have to be up at 1:00 in the morning to try it.

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  Orion is back in the pre-dawn sky. This is just a cell phone snapshot.

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  The moon at about 97% eclipsed last night. I'll probably have more images, but I'm still going through them.

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  The full moon setting when we got up this morning. It was awfully nice of the clouds to clear out during the eclipse.

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  It was 95% cloudy when we arrived, 95% cloudy when we woke up, and almost perfect for the eclipse. This was the only cloud action we had during the eclipse.

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  Late in the eclipse.

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  Here is another image from later, in the second half of the eclipse. Beyond that, I think they're all going to look pretty much the same.

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  A revision of M15. I was experimenting with being a little bolder, but not everybody was ready for it.

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  EarthSky.org has their best deep sky photos from July collected and I was pleased to see the two of them are mine. https://earthsky.org/todays-image/best-deep-sky-photos-of-july-2026-from-earthsky-community/

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  I didn't think I was going to have clear skies last night, but I did have five clear hours. I used them to work some more on M27, the Dumbbell Nebula. It allowed me to bring out a little more detail on the very faint outer shell.

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  This is NGC 6820 in the constellation Vulpecula. It's one of my favorites with its very distinctive single pillar.

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  A perfectly nice picture of the first quarter moon last night at sunset. I like the lighting. Trouble is, this was supposed to be an image of the lunar X and the lunar V, and they do not appear. The best time for viewing was during broad daylight, so that didn't help

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  I haven't taken many solar images lately, but the sun continues to be interesting. I keep expecting it to get quiet and head for solar minimum, but I guess it's not ready yet.

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  The moon tonight.

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  This is the Galaxy M83 in Hydra, sometimes called the Southern Pinwheel. It's primarily a southern hemisphere galaxy, never getting much over 24 degrees over the southern horizon from where I live. That makes it challenging, but I worked on this for six short nights and did my best.

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  @khan_gnot@tooting.ch yes, exactly. Two of the Galilean moons.

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  The galaxies M81 and M82 in Ursa Major. They are very close together and very easy to frame together, so normally, they appear together in one photo. I decided to try processing them separately.

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  The globular cluster M5 in the constellation Serpens. A big, bright, beautiful cluster. It almost gives the Hercules cluster a run for its money.

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  @VA3DSO@mstdn.ca Sharing is the best part!