Mike Wirths was watching the action on the Sun on June 25 when this Earth-sized prominence put on a 10-minute show. Fortunately excellent seeing prevailed, allowing Mike to capture this sharp image through his solar-filtered 6-inch refractor from his observatory in northern Mexico.
Dustin Head’s job takes him through Canada’s north on a regular basis, where he gets to see nature’s finest shows. This one garnered him Photo of the Week.
Erich Krause won the Photo of the Week with his none-to-common “space fist with dragon in palm.”
There are a lot of dedicated astrophotographers out there. Even so, Tom Evans went to jaw-dropping lengths to capture this Photo of the Week.
It had been about 10 years since Rémi Lacasse had taken a picture of M81 — but his newest image of the spiral galaxy has won him Photo of the Week.
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