Kevin Earp
@astrokev.bsky.social
Astrophotography, wildlife photography, art and occasional random stuff.
Paint the soul, never mind the legs and arms
Paint the soul, never mind the legs and arms
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Kevin Earp
@astrokev.bsky.social
· Nov 9
The Great Orion nebula and the Running Man nebula. Another image from the recent Kelling Star Party.
Can't remember why, but I only took 36 mins of data, which is way too short, but turned out better than I expected
Can you see the running man?
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Can't remember why, but I only took 36 mins of data, which is way too short, but turned out better than I expected
Can you see the running man?
#astronomy 🔭
Final image of the Uranus system from the 17th.
This is a composite since the brightness difference between planet and moons is too great to record them all in a single image without over-exposing the planet.
Miranda is not shown as it was too close to the glare of Uranus to show separately
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This is a composite since the brightness difference between planet and moons is too great to record them all in a single image without over-exposing the planet.
Miranda is not shown as it was too close to the glare of Uranus to show separately
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November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Final image of the Uranus system from the 17th.
This is a composite since the brightness difference between planet and moons is too great to record them all in a single image without over-exposing the planet.
Miranda is not shown as it was too close to the glare of Uranus to show separately
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This is a composite since the brightness difference between planet and moons is too great to record them all in a single image without over-exposing the planet.
Miranda is not shown as it was too close to the glare of Uranus to show separately
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Uranus and its 5 brightest moons.
Miranda is the closest to Uranus and is about 50,000x fainter than the planet, making it a challenge to capture in the glare of the planet.
This is a 24 image stack. Uranus is over-exposed to help record Miranda. It's just visible on the edge of Uranus' glare!
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Miranda is the closest to Uranus and is about 50,000x fainter than the planet, making it a challenge to capture in the glare of the planet.
This is a 24 image stack. Uranus is over-exposed to help record Miranda. It's just visible on the edge of Uranus' glare!
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November 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Uranus and its 5 brightest moons.
Miranda is the closest to Uranus and is about 50,000x fainter than the planet, making it a challenge to capture in the glare of the planet.
This is a 24 image stack. Uranus is over-exposed to help record Miranda. It's just visible on the edge of Uranus' glare!
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Miranda is the closest to Uranus and is about 50,000x fainter than the planet, making it a challenge to capture in the glare of the planet.
This is a 24 image stack. Uranus is over-exposed to help record Miranda. It's just visible on the edge of Uranus' glare!
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Uranus imaged on the 17th Nov with my Celestron C11 and Uranus-C camera at prime focus.
No detail is visible on this distant world, at least not without appropriate filters, which I dont have!
Quite pleased with the result though
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No detail is visible on this distant world, at least not without appropriate filters, which I dont have!
Quite pleased with the result though
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November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Uranus imaged on the 17th Nov with my Celestron C11 and Uranus-C camera at prime focus.
No detail is visible on this distant world, at least not without appropriate filters, which I dont have!
Quite pleased with the result though
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No detail is visible on this distant world, at least not without appropriate filters, which I dont have!
Quite pleased with the result though
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Saturn, imaged a few nights ago.
Seeing wasn't great but quite pleased with the result.
Although not quite edge-on, the rings are just about at their narrowest for this season, at 0.39° open with the South face in view.
They'll be st their narrowest next week
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Seeing wasn't great but quite pleased with the result.
Although not quite edge-on, the rings are just about at their narrowest for this season, at 0.39° open with the South face in view.
They'll be st their narrowest next week
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November 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Saturn, imaged a few nights ago.
Seeing wasn't great but quite pleased with the result.
Although not quite edge-on, the rings are just about at their narrowest for this season, at 0.39° open with the South face in view.
They'll be st their narrowest next week
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Seeing wasn't great but quite pleased with the result.
Although not quite edge-on, the rings are just about at their narrowest for this season, at 0.39° open with the South face in view.
They'll be st their narrowest next week
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The wonderful Clavius crater in the Moon's Southern highlands. I love this crater as its so distinctive, and the many craters within it, with a wide range of sizes, makes it a great test of imaging and scope resolution.
The smallest features visible in this image are around 1 mile across
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The smallest features visible in this image are around 1 mile across
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November 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The wonderful Clavius crater in the Moon's Southern highlands. I love this crater as its so distinctive, and the many craters within it, with a wide range of sizes, makes it a great test of imaging and scope resolution.
The smallest features visible in this image are around 1 mile across
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The smallest features visible in this image are around 1 mile across
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Hadley Rille, landing site of the Apollo 15 mission, and one of my favourite features to try and image.
It's quite tiny, nestled in the foothills of the Apennine mountains, and needs good seeing to get a decent shot.
Taken on Tuesday morning with a C11 scope
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It's quite tiny, nestled in the foothills of the Apennine mountains, and needs good seeing to get a decent shot.
Taken on Tuesday morning with a C11 scope
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November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Hadley Rille, landing site of the Apollo 15 mission, and one of my favourite features to try and image.
It's quite tiny, nestled in the foothills of the Apennine mountains, and needs good seeing to get a decent shot.
Taken on Tuesday morning with a C11 scope
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It's quite tiny, nestled in the foothills of the Apennine mountains, and needs good seeing to get a decent shot.
Taken on Tuesday morning with a C11 scope
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Closer view of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, and the biggest Moon in the solar system.
First time I've been able to capture vague surface markings, which I was pleased with. The lower image is a Winjupos computer simulation for the same time, which shows reasonable agreement
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First time I've been able to capture vague surface markings, which I was pleased with. The lower image is a Winjupos computer simulation for the same time, which shows reasonable agreement
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November 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Closer view of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, and the biggest Moon in the solar system.
First time I've been able to capture vague surface markings, which I was pleased with. The lower image is a Winjupos computer simulation for the same time, which shows reasonable agreement
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First time I've been able to capture vague surface markings, which I was pleased with. The lower image is a Winjupos computer simulation for the same time, which shows reasonable agreement
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Jupiter imaged on Tuesday morning in good seeing, with the C11.
I think this is the first time I've captured vague albedo features on Ganymede, it's largest moon, which I was pleased about
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I think this is the first time I've captured vague albedo features on Ganymede, it's largest moon, which I was pleased about
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November 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Jupiter imaged on Tuesday morning in good seeing, with the C11.
I think this is the first time I've captured vague albedo features on Ganymede, it's largest moon, which I was pleased about
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I think this is the first time I've captured vague albedo features on Ganymede, it's largest moon, which I was pleased about
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Decided to check collimation of the C11. It wasn't far off but I tweaked it a bit. I'm happy with this result.
Seeing is still rubbish though!
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Seeing is still rubbish though!
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November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Decided to check collimation of the C11. It wasn't far off but I tweaked it a bit. I'm happy with this result.
Seeing is still rubbish though!
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Seeing is still rubbish though!
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Saturn on Saturday evening using the Celestron C11 at prime focus, with a Uranus-C camera.
Seeing wasn't great and I struggled to get decent data using a Barlow.
6 images derotated in winjupos.
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Seeing wasn't great and I struggled to get decent data using a Barlow.
6 images derotated in winjupos.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Saturn on Saturday evening using the Celestron C11 at prime focus, with a Uranus-C camera.
Seeing wasn't great and I struggled to get decent data using a Barlow.
6 images derotated in winjupos.
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Seeing wasn't great and I struggled to get decent data using a Barlow.
6 images derotated in winjupos.
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Jupiter, imaged a few nights ago with the volcanic moon Io; the first time this season.
Seeing wasn't the best, but good to get back on the king of planets.
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Seeing wasn't the best, but good to get back on the king of planets.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Jupiter, imaged a few nights ago with the volcanic moon Io; the first time this season.
Seeing wasn't the best, but good to get back on the king of planets.
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Seeing wasn't the best, but good to get back on the king of planets.
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Decided to get the big gun out to try and improve my planet imaging.
Of course it'll now be cloudy for weeks 😕
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Of course it'll now be cloudy for weeks 😕
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November 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Decided to get the big gun out to try and improve my planet imaging.
Of course it'll now be cloudy for weeks 😕
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Of course it'll now be cloudy for weeks 😕
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Rework of my image of Uranus' moons. I've superimposed a correctly exposed image of the planet to show its true size. In my previous moon image it was over-exposed, to help record the moons, and looked huge
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November 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Rework of my image of Uranus' moons. I've superimposed a correctly exposed image of the planet to show its true size. In my previous moon image it was over-exposed, to help record the moons, and looked huge
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Uranus taken in average seeing. Not my best image of this planet but its good to catch up with it again; it's been a few years.
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November 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Uranus taken in average seeing. Not my best image of this planet but its good to catch up with it again; it's been a few years.
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Tried to catch the moons of Uranus the other night. Seeing was a bit wobbly but captured the 4 brightest.
Uranus is hugely over-exposed with more than a 1000-fold difference in brightness between it and the faintest moon.
First time I've tried with my 8"scope, but need more
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Uranus is hugely over-exposed with more than a 1000-fold difference in brightness between it and the faintest moon.
First time I've tried with my 8"scope, but need more
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November 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Tried to catch the moons of Uranus the other night. Seeing was a bit wobbly but captured the 4 brightest.
Uranus is hugely over-exposed with more than a 1000-fold difference in brightness between it and the faintest moon.
First time I've tried with my 8"scope, but need more
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Uranus is hugely over-exposed with more than a 1000-fold difference in brightness between it and the faintest moon.
First time I've tried with my 8"scope, but need more
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Saturn taken on 29th Oct in average seeing.
It's largest moon Titan can be seen below the rings on the right side of the planet and is just about to disappear from view as it moves behind the disk.
The rings continue to close up, as seen from our viewpoint.
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It's largest moon Titan can be seen below the rings on the right side of the planet and is just about to disappear from view as it moves behind the disk.
The rings continue to close up, as seen from our viewpoint.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Saturn taken on 29th Oct in average seeing.
It's largest moon Titan can be seen below the rings on the right side of the planet and is just about to disappear from view as it moves behind the disk.
The rings continue to close up, as seen from our viewpoint.
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It's largest moon Titan can be seen below the rings on the right side of the planet and is just about to disappear from view as it moves behind the disk.
The rings continue to close up, as seen from our viewpoint.
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The clouds didn't part early enough to try and catch comet Lemmon.
But Saturn isn't looking too shabby, so trying a bit of planetary imaging
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But Saturn isn't looking too shabby, so trying a bit of planetary imaging
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October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The clouds didn't part early enough to try and catch comet Lemmon.
But Saturn isn't looking too shabby, so trying a bit of planetary imaging
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But Saturn isn't looking too shabby, so trying a bit of planetary imaging
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Saturn and largest moon Titan just before it transitted the disk, taken last week. I stopped imaging before it reached the disk because the seeing was deteriorating, but wished I'd carried on now 😕.
I really need to get a bigger aperture scope on Saturn
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I really need to get a bigger aperture scope on Saturn
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October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Saturn and largest moon Titan just before it transitted the disk, taken last week. I stopped imaging before it reached the disk because the seeing was deteriorating, but wished I'd carried on now 😕.
I really need to get a bigger aperture scope on Saturn
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I really need to get a bigger aperture scope on Saturn
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Comet Lemmon taken last night, 24 Oct.
Some fantastic detail in the gas tail, which has changed a lot in only the last few days.
Mono image only, due to cloud coming in before I could capture RGB data.
22 x 45 sec exposures. Esprit 100 scope. 2600MM camera
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Some fantastic detail in the gas tail, which has changed a lot in only the last few days.
Mono image only, due to cloud coming in before I could capture RGB data.
22 x 45 sec exposures. Esprit 100 scope. 2600MM camera
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October 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Comet Lemmon taken last night, 24 Oct.
Some fantastic detail in the gas tail, which has changed a lot in only the last few days.
Mono image only, due to cloud coming in before I could capture RGB data.
22 x 45 sec exposures. Esprit 100 scope. 2600MM camera
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Some fantastic detail in the gas tail, which has changed a lot in only the last few days.
Mono image only, due to cloud coming in before I could capture RGB data.
22 x 45 sec exposures. Esprit 100 scope. 2600MM camera
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Another comet Lemmon image, taken on 21 Oct.
For this one I used my mono camera with red, green and blue filters to capture colour data, which I added to the main mono image to create an LRGB colour image.
Scope was a 550mm focal length Esprit 100.
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For this one I used my mono camera with red, green and blue filters to capture colour data, which I added to the main mono image to create an LRGB colour image.
Scope was a 550mm focal length Esprit 100.
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October 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Another comet Lemmon image, taken on 21 Oct.
For this one I used my mono camera with red, green and blue filters to capture colour data, which I added to the main mono image to create an LRGB colour image.
Scope was a 550mm focal length Esprit 100.
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For this one I used my mono camera with red, green and blue filters to capture colour data, which I added to the main mono image to create an LRGB colour image.
Scope was a 550mm focal length Esprit 100.
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Reprocessed my comet Lemmon data to show it against the fixed star background.
Taken with my 100mm refractor at 550mm focal length, and mono ASI2600 camera.
I took some RGB data too, but not sure if I can use this to give a colour image
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Taken with my 100mm refractor at 550mm focal length, and mono ASI2600 camera.
I took some RGB data too, but not sure if I can use this to give a colour image
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October 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Reprocessed my comet Lemmon data to show it against the fixed star background.
Taken with my 100mm refractor at 550mm focal length, and mono ASI2600 camera.
I took some RGB data too, but not sure if I can use this to give a colour image
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Taken with my 100mm refractor at 550mm focal length, and mono ASI2600 camera.
I took some RGB data too, but not sure if I can use this to give a colour image
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Finally got to see Comet Lemmon a few nights ago....
Mono camera shot 20 x 45 sec exposures
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Mono camera shot 20 x 45 sec exposures
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October 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Finally got to see Comet Lemmon a few nights ago....
Mono camera shot 20 x 45 sec exposures
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Mono camera shot 20 x 45 sec exposures
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Final Moon image from a few nights ago.
This is the north-east region. The prominent crater near the terminator is called Endymion, which is approaching late afternoon and will soon be plunged into darkness.
Lots of great crater formations around this area
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This is the north-east region. The prominent crater near the terminator is called Endymion, which is approaching late afternoon and will soon be plunged into darkness.
Lots of great crater formations around this area
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October 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Final Moon image from a few nights ago.
This is the north-east region. The prominent crater near the terminator is called Endymion, which is approaching late afternoon and will soon be plunged into darkness.
Lots of great crater formations around this area
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This is the north-east region. The prominent crater near the terminator is called Endymion, which is approaching late afternoon and will soon be plunged into darkness.
Lots of great crater formations around this area
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Another Moon image from the 8th.
This is the ancient impact basin Mare Crisium. I love searching out tiny craterlets on the apparently smooth floor.
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This is the ancient impact basin Mare Crisium. I love searching out tiny craterlets on the apparently smooth floor.
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October 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Another Moon image from the 8th.
This is the ancient impact basin Mare Crisium. I love searching out tiny craterlets on the apparently smooth floor.
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This is the ancient impact basin Mare Crisium. I love searching out tiny craterlets on the apparently smooth floor.
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Mooney time.
A few images taken on the 8th just before packing up and retiring.
This one is the terminator around Petavius, a crater with a superb fault running across its floor.
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A few images taken on the 8th just before packing up and retiring.
This one is the terminator around Petavius, a crater with a superb fault running across its floor.
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October 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Mooney time.
A few images taken on the 8th just before packing up and retiring.
This one is the terminator around Petavius, a crater with a superb fault running across its floor.
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A few images taken on the 8th just before packing up and retiring.
This one is the terminator around Petavius, a crater with a superb fault running across its floor.
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