During the night of the 1st April I took a further 2.5 hours of LRGB/Ha data on the little Pinwheel galaxy (NGC 3184) using my SW Esprit 80 and ASI 533MM Pro camera and filter set. I added that to a similar amount taken around the same time last year and integrated the full 5.25 hour data set to produce wide, mid and tight crop images using drizzling in Pixinsight. I also annotated the wider field image in Pixinsight to show the other objects in the frame.
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On the morning of the 2nd April 2026, as the crew of Artemis II was heading from Earth on its historic voyage to go around the Moon after its launch some two hours earlier, I used my Sony ZV-E10 camera fitted with a 350mm zoom lens to take 100 images of the full Moon for posterity. I cropped the images in Adobe Light|room and then stacked 75 of them in Autostakkert!4 and sharpened the resultant Tiff file in Registax before applying final processing in Adobe LightRoom. I combined the image with that of a screen grab of the live feed from NASA TV showing the capsule over 1,000 miles from Earth heading for the Moon with art of our planet in the background, so the photo is one of them looking at us as we looked at them!
Chris Bowden
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