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Lunar shot from Oktober 2013 with Nikon Coolpix S3100 compact camera
First setup of MegaStar 1550 telescope with camera adapter

Some Lunar shots from November 2013

First shots with the new Sony Alpha ILCE-3000 camera using ocular projection with T2 eyepiece holder
and camera T-adapter (without lens), i had 2-4 minutes to get some shots off before a huge cloud cover came in,
pictures taken through the clouds, working as "filter", 10 Feb 2014

New pics from 13 Feb 2014

New pics from Feb 17, 2014
Here with Orion, Gemini-Pollux & Castor with Jupiter as a bright star in the sky, all in smaller size to fit normal desktop screen resolutions

Orion & jupiter

Orion & Jupiter

Orion & Jupiter

Orion's belt and above Jupiter & Gemini-Pollux

Orion's belt and above Jupiter, Gemini-Pollux & Castor

Jupiter with 5 moons


New pics from April 5, 2014
Nice half lit moon

Mare Nectaris, crater Theophilus (the one with a central mountain)

Mare Tranquillitatis, Mare Serenitatis and Mare Crisium

Arcturus star shot on mid-summer night 2014 cool rotation of shape between 2 frames
F/0, 1/10sec exposure, ISO 16k, orig pic size 5456x3632 350 dpi 24bit color sRGB, light strength -9,490625

Vega star shot in beginning of August 2014 from 3 frames, for the 2 frames with features/shapes
F/0, 1/10sec exposure, ISO 12,8k, orig pic size 5456x3632 350 dpi 24bit color sRGB, light strength -9,49453125

Riegel star shot in the beginning of January 2015, 2 frames
F/0, 1/10sec exposure, ISO 16k, orig pic size 5456x3632 350 dpi 24bit color sRGB, light strength -9,49453125

Full moon pic from beg of January 2015

Orion behind midnight clouds with a bright full moon, shot hand held through
a cabin window from a passenger ferry close to some island, end of Jan 2015

Solar eclipse in Stockholm 20th of March 10:50 local time

Meteor from the perseid meteor shower taken August 14th, 2015, by Tzvetomira Philipova 23:17 local time

Cassiopeia constellation taken August, 2015

Lunar shot with 55mm lens max zoom early cold morning in Vantaa October, 2015

Moon, Jupiter and Venus inline early morning in Vantaa October, 2015

Lunar setting while sun just came up on the opposite side of horizon, Klaukkala end of October, 2015

Sunrise pictures taken through car window in October mornings, 2015

Meteor's from the perseid meteor shower taken August 11-12th,
2016 through a thin cloud layer,
all taken by Tommy Ylisirkka 23:30-00:40 local time
1 shot left of Cassiopeia const., the first 2 pics successful even with short exposure time.

2 shot left below of Cassiopeia constellation, close to a moving satelite.

3 shot below of Cassiopeia const., now with longer 30 sec. exposure time.

4 shot right below of Cassiopeia constellation (by the flag in the right corner).