[Theme] Show us your best moon (and solar system) images

[ColinM]

I don't know if it was best seen in Europe, but was anyone lucky enough to see and get good photos of this week's Aurora Borealis?

I sat out for an hour on Monday (after the Aurorawatch App told me conditions were about as good as they've ever been in Southern UK). But the sky was full of fast-moving patchy cloud and the moon was illuminating these strongly,

Plus I've never seen it before, so may well have just missed picking it out
Apparently 2024 may be a peak year in the current cycle

[Bent Hjarbo]

I don't know if it was best seen in Europe, but was anyone lucky enough to see and get good photos of this week's Aurora Borealis?

I sat out for an hour on Monday (after the Aurorawatch App told me conditions were about as good as they've ever been in Southern UK). But the sky was full of fast-moving patchy cloud and the moon was illuminating these strongly,

Plus I've never seen it before, so may well have just missed picking it out
Apparently 2024 may be a peak year in the current cycle

There has been many observations in Denmark, but I was not lucky
I got some photos of Venus and Jupiter instead

[Asle F]

The view from my bedroom window some days ago:

Hallingskarvet by Asle Feten, on Flickr

[Øivind Tøien]

The view from my bedroom window some days ago:

Hallingskarvet by Asle Feten, on Flickr

Beautiful view, Asle - very nice balance of the moon against the forground.

There has been many observations in Denmark, but I was not lucky
I got some photos of Venus and Jupiter instead

Here are a couple of aurora captures seconds apart from what is likely the same event, moon included for the topic of the thread. 

[Bruno Schroder]

Very nice compositions, Asle and Øivind. Longing for clear skies here

[Øivind Tøien]

Thanks, Bruno - best wishes for the clear skies.

[John Geerts]

Very nice compositions, Asle and Øivind. Longing for clear skies here

Yes, lovely shots.

[Akira]

The view from my bedroom window some days ago:

Great and spectacular!

Here are a couple of aurora captures seconds apart from what is likely the same event, moon included for the topic of the thread. 

Again, they are impressively beautiful!

[Øivind Tøien]

Thanks Akira and John.

[Øivind Tøien]

First processing of a February 10 capture of Comet-C/2022 E3 (ZTF) passing Mars, based on 90 exposures each 30s at ISO 800, stack aligned on the comet. Conditions were challenging with clouds coming and going, light pollution and moonlight. My strategy was through multiple nights to do  do a quick 15 min setup and then let the tracker do its job exposing though the evening without touching the setup, hoping for a long enough cloud free period. Processing of comets is quite challenging and I have a long way to go, but vestiges of a double tail is apparent. Artifacts from the movement of Mars was hidden by gaussian blur.

[Hugh_3170]

Great work here Øivind  - your details highlight the huge effort required of both the photographer and their equipment.  Am pleased for you that it has all come together for you on this occasion.

First processing of a February 10 capture of Comet-C/2022 E3 (ZTF) passing Mars, based on 90 exposures each 30s at ISO 800, stack aligned on the comet. Conditions were challenging with clouds coming and going, light pollution and moonlight. My strategy was through multiple nights to do  do a quick 15 min setup and then let the tracker do its job exposing though the evening without touching the setup, hoping for a long enough cloud free period. Processing of comets is quite challenging and I have a long way to go, but vestiges of a double tail is apparent. Artifacts from the movement of Mars was hidden by gaussian blur.

[Øivind Tøien]

Thanks Hugh, it got a bit more noisy than expected, but the comet processing involved marking the comet in each frame so that DSS freezes the comet and blurs out the stars using sigma-clipping. So perhaps that adds some noise. DSS behaved a bit differently than normal with respect to levels it produced so perhaps something else was going on. The more advanced processing I see in use out there would then make a separate stack aligned on the stars and then combine them, but there is a bothersome light pollution gradient in the frames that could make that very tricky.

[Akira]

First processing of a February 10 capture of Comet-C/2022 E3 (ZTF) passing Mars, based on 90 exposures each 30s at ISO 800, stack aligned on the comet. Conditions were challenging with clouds coming and going, light pollution and moonlight. My strategy was through multiple nights to do  do a quick 15 min setup and then let the tracker do its job exposing though the evening without touching the setup, hoping for a long enough cloud free period. Processing of comets is quite challenging and I have a long way to go, but vestiges of a double tail is apparent. Artifacts from the movement of Mars was hidden by gaussian blur.

Amazing job!  I gave up observing ZTF comet due to the heavy light pollution and thin slight hazy clouds.  Nice to see the beautiful emerald green color of the comet in contrast to the orange-yellow color of Mars.

[Øivind Tøien]

Thanks, Akira. I had planned to make a try during the dark moon phase, but weather did not work out according to the forecast, I am glad I got it at all, and especially the day of the Mars passage. This comet moved fast! I taxed the shutter of my D500 with >2600 actuations during those 6 nights I tried for it, of which most were clouds and were deleted.
[Edit: I updated the image with one where the noise was made slightly les prominent.]

[Bruno Schroder]

Nice color play between Mars and the comet, Øivind.
No luck on my side with an almost perpetually drab sky.