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Sun, Moon & planets

Our nearest neighbours – thousands of short frames combined into one sharp image.

Black-and-white photograph of the lit part of the Moon with dark maria and countless craters on a black background.

The Moon

The Moon close enough to wander across it, crater by crater.

A waxing Moon with craters along the terminator, portrait view.

The Moon, portrait

The same Moon, turned into a vertical format.

A narrow lunar crescent at upper left with sharply rendered craters along the line between light and shadow.

Crescent Moon

A few days after new Moon, when craters cast their longest shadows.

The full disc of the Sun in copper tones with a grainy texture, dark filaments and prominences at the limb.

The Sun in hydrogen-alpha light

The surface of the Sun as you will never see it with the naked eye.

The copper disc of the Sun with dark filaments, partly covered at the bottom by the silhouette of tree branches.

The Sun behind a tree

The Sun's chromosphere and an ordinary tree in a single frame.

The copper disc of the Sun in hydrogen light, its upper left part covered by the dark disc of the Moon; tree silhouettes below.

Solar eclipse, 12 August 2026

The Moon biting into the Sun, low above the horizon.

Saturn and its rings as a small bright object in the centre of a black frame; faint belts are visible on the planet's disc.

Saturn, 19 August 2023

The rings we know from textbooks, captured from Earth.

Saturn with tilted rings and belts on its disc against a dark blue background.

Saturn, 13 October 2026

The rings opening up again after years.

Jupiter as a bright disc with brownish cloud belts in the centre of a black frame; a tiny bright dot to its left.

Jupiter and a moon

The largest planet in the Solar System, with the tiny dot of one of its moons.

Close-up of Jupiter filling almost the whole frame: cloud belts, a small dark shadow on the disc and a bright moon at the lower right edge.

Jupiter with a moon's shadow

A moon's shadow passing across Jupiter's clouds.

A crop of the lit part of the Moon with craters on black, in a phone-screen format.

The Moon – phone wallpaper

The Moon of 5 September 2023, sized exactly for a phone screen.

The grey-blue lunar surface with craters, its edge curving against a blue background.

The Moon's edge against a blue sky

Craters near the Moon's edge in unusual blue tones.

Saturn with bright rings on a black background.

Saturn, 4 September 2023 (21:30)

Rings and cloud bands from one evening's video capture.

Saturn with its rings in cooler, bluish tones on a black background.

Saturn, 4 September 2023 (22:10)

Forty minutes later, from another video capture the same night.

Saturn with its rings in the middle of a black field.

Saturn, 19 August 2023, alternative processing

The same night as the first Saturn, processed differently.

Saturn with its rings seen almost edge-on as a thin line.

Saturn, 18 November 2025

The rings almost edge-on – a thin line across the planet.

Jupiter with prominent brown cloud belts on a dark background.

Jupiter, 30 November 2025

The cloud belts of the largest planet in the Solar System.

Jupiter with light zones and brown cloud belts on a black background.

Jupiter, 4 January 2026

Jupiter at the start of 2026, shortly before opposition.

A small Jupiter with cloud bands and three tiny dots of its moons in a black field.

Jupiter and its moons

The planet and its Galilean moons in one frame.

The small pale-blue disc of Uranus on a dark blue background.

Uranus

An ice giant at the edge of the Solar System as a tiny blue disc.

The whole orange solar disc with a grainy surface, dark filaments and bright active regions.

The Sun in H-alpha, 10 August 2026

The whole solar disc two days before the eclipse.

The grainy surface of the Sun in H-alpha light up close, small prominences rising from the left edge.

The solar limb with prominences

The solar chromosphere up close – each grain is larger than Slovakia.

A section of the solar disc in H-alpha light with a grainy surface and a long dark filament on the left.

The Sun with a dark filament

A dark thread of gas above the Sun's surface.