Quarter Moon 53.2% Waxing Gibbous Moon in Capricorn Saw several fat white fireballs that seem to hang in the sky. Orionids peaking overnight Oct 21st into 22nd Plan to get out and catch a few #Nature 🔭 #Photography #Science #WitchSky #Photo #NightSky #Astronomy #Moon #FirstQuarter #QuarterMoon

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Saturn from last night. Now that it's passed opposition, the disk shadow on the rings is just beginning to show at left, as is the ring shadow on the disk, visible as a thin line just above the rings 🔭

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Star Trails above Table Mountain The looming form of Table Mountain almost seems to hold terrestrial lights at bay while the stars circle the planet's South Celestial Pole. Image Credit: Eric Nathan #Astronomy

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Rings and Seasons of Saturn Since Saturn's grand rings orbit along the planet's equator, these rings appear most prominent -- from the direction of the Sun -- when the Saturn's spin axis points toward the Sun. Image Credit: Damian Peach / SEN #Astronomy

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This is UGC 12613, also called the Pegasus Dwarf Galaxy. It's an irregular galaxy in the constellation Pegasus. It's small and very faint, so I used almost 17 hours of total exposure time to try to bring it out. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

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