Paul Hill considers…

Jupiter is one of winter’s most exciting targets, not just for its ever-changing surface and moon transits, but for the fascinating features revealed by different filters. This planetary season, try a

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The end is inevitable. Eventually, our Sun will grow old and die. When it does, how much of the rest of the Solar System will it take with it? The fate of Earth hangs in the balance… The end will star

Ron Brecher, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 22 November 2025 Ron says: “I used a colour camera and two Optolong filters to capture SII, Ha and OIII emissions, then processed them in the Foraxx palette. I’m

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