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Al Washburn captured the gibbous Moon with an iphone attached to a 6-inch telescope.

John Pancoast took this image of spiral galaxy M101 from a state park in rural Virginia in May.  John writes: “This was taken over three nights and amounts to 9 hours total integration. I’ve never imaged this long before. It’s 54 x 10-minute subs. I used my 4” refractor with a TeleVue 2x PowerMate, so I was imaging at f/12.6… reeeeaaaalllly slow. I am still using an OSC camera, so I wasn’t able to get much H-alpha. Other than that, I’m pretty happy with the result!”

Jim Mazur took this time lapse of the Moon and Mercury setting in the trees after sunset on May 13. He used a Canon T6i camera with a 200-mm lens.