Planets and the Moon

Apart from the silhouette of a person at the telescope, everything here is a single afocal photograph, a double exposure or a short stack of photographs.

The red one is Mars. Jupiter shows three of the four Galilean moons in both photographs; Saturn shows Titan.

Silhouette of a person at a telescope against a bright sky

A crescent Moon, the unlit rest of its disc faintly visible against black — Double exposure of crescent

Mars as a small, soft orange disc against black — Stacked photo of Mars

Saturn and its tilted rings, small and soft against black — Saturn close up

Jupiter with faint cloud bands at the left edge and three moons in a row to its right — Jupiter and 3 of the 4 Galilean moons

Saturn as a small bright oval and Titan as a faint point to its lower right, each marked with a red arrow and label — Saturn and Titan (its largest moon)

Jupiter as a bright disc with three moons in a short line to its upper left, labelled Ganymede, Europa and Callisto with red arrows — Jupiter, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto (Io is either in front or behind Jupiter's disk)

Photograph of a crescent Moon along the terminator

Photograph of the Moon's limb, craters picked out along the terminator

A nearly full Moon, its dark maria and bright crater rays sharp against black — Full Moon (95%)

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