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Introduction

Pluto's Full Rotation

Galaxies and Nebulas are awesome.

Open and Globular Star Clusters are equally wonderful to watch.

However, nothing compares to the excitement of seeing a distant world´s surface. There´s a distinct enjoyment when one can resolve the topographic features of the heavenly real estate.

This is a tour of the Solar System from a whole new perspective.

It´s an amateur astronomers´s take on our planetary neighborhood, from Mercury to Pluto.

All major bodies were photographed and commented, some for the first time ever in unprecedented detail.
 
HMIR

While trying to find ways to see the entire Solar System, SPACENOW developed a novel method of image processing with the employment of three software programs.
Named HMIR, this technique breaks away with some established rules of astro imaging with results that proved excellent including a surprising level of sharpness and resolution regardless of the distance to the object targeted.

The unorthodoxy of HMIR is better understood in the HMIR pre-requisites described on this website.

 

Highlights

Charon also sports a strangely shaped gigantic mountain

Pluto's complete rotation equated. Mount Everest of the solar system comes full circle

PROCYON A shines intrinsically white even for HMIR

POLLUX's disc and corona come across well distinguished

SPACENOW finds out why blue giant star beta crucis is also called MIMOSA.

Yellow powerhouse star gamma crucis is the southern hemisphere's own red giant.

THE SCIENTIST'S STAR GALLERY

Hyperion defies HMIR as littlelest SATURN moon to be captured with breakthrough  technique

The most striking binary star system, Albireo, is exposed by HMIR

New Vesta image reveals a rusty appearance as asteroid approaches Earth

First ever film of a star shining brings the silent movies back to a stellar level

Charon's rotation follows a sidereal north/south direction as second successfull image indicates

Pluto and Charon
Pluto and Charon

Solar System

Mercury | Venus | Moon | Mars | Asteroid Belt | Vesta | Palas | Kleopatra | Ceres | Jupiter system: Europa, Ganymede, IO, Callisto | Saturn system: Enceladus, Mimas, Titan, Rhea, Tethys, Dione, Iapetus, Hyperion | Uranus system: Puck, Miranda, Umbriel, Ariel, Titania, Oberon, Sycorax | Neptune and Triton | Pluto | Pluton and Charon | Eclipsed Moon with Saturn


Deep Sky

Galaxies l Nebulas l Clusters l Planetary Nebulas l Asterisms | Constellations | Binary Stars / Stars

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