Last night’s astrophotography pictures

So last night was finally a clear night that wasn’t super cold and I was able to spend a good hour outside with my telescope. Here are the images I took.

The Moon is always the easiest. Hopefully next week I can get some eclipse shots!

I got a pretty good shot of Jupiter last night. It’s my best one to date. If you’re curious, the moon that you can see if you look closely is Io.

Since Mars is getting closer—it will be at it’s closest point on Monday the 14th—I thought I would try to image it. Mars is hard to image because it’s so small. I need to get better Mars pictures, but I’m posting thing one anyway, because it’s frickin’ Mars!