Member Photography

2024 Solar Eclipse

2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Taken from eastern Maine
Canon 80D 150-600mm lense
Credit Mark Melvin
2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Taken from eastern Maine
Canon 80D 150-600mm lense
Credit Mark Melvin
2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Taken from eastern Maine
Canon 80D 150-600mm lense
Credit Mark Melvin
2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Taken from eastern Maine
Canon 80D 150-600mm lens
Credit Mark Melvin
2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Taken from eastern Maine
Canon 80D 150-600mm lense
Credit Mark Melvin
2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Taken from eastern Maine
Canon 80D 150-600mm lens
Credit Mark Melvin
2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Taken from eastern Maine
Canon 80D 150-600mm lens
Credit Mark Melvin
2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Taken from eastern Maine
Canon 80D 150-600mm lens
Credit Mark Melvin
2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Taken from eastern Maine
Canon 80D 150-600mm lens
Credit Mark Melvin

The Sun

Key West Sunset
Credit: Mark Melvin
Sunset
Credit: Mark Melvin
Smokey Sunset
Credit: Mark Melvin

The Moon

Moon Composite Image
Credit: Mark Melvin
Credit: Mark Melvin
Moon in daytime
Credit: Mark Melvin
Credit: Mark Melvin

The Planets

Deep Sky Objects

Bubble nebula
Credit: Roger Munro
Stars
Credit: Mark Melvin
The Orion Nebula Messier 42
Credit: Mark Melvin
This magnificent 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire southern and northern celestial sphere, reveals the cosmic landscape that surrounds our tiny blue planet. This gorgeous starscape serves as the first of three extremely high-resolution images featured in the GigaGalaxy Zoom project, launched by ESO within the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which we see edge-on from our perspective on Earth, cuts a luminous swath across the image. The projection used in GigaGalaxy Zoom place the viewer in front of our Galaxy with the Galactic Plane running horizontally through the image — almost as if we were looking at the Milky Way from the outside. From this vantage point, the general components of our spiral galaxy come clearly into view, including its disc, marbled with both dark and glowing nebulae, which harbours bright, young stars, as well as the Galaxy’s central bulge and its satellite galaxies. As filming extended over several months, objects from the Solar System came and went through the star fields, with bright planets such as Venus and Jupiter. For copyright reasons, we cannot provide here the full 800-million-pixel original image, which can be requested from Serge Brunier. The high resolution image provided here contains 18 million pixels.

Closer to home

Older Eclipse Photos

Earth Shine
Credit: Mark Melvin
Corona 2017 Eclipse
Credit: Mark Melvin