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Phil Plait dug out these amazing pictures taken by Damian Peach. If you go to your local library and look at astronomy books that were published when I was a kid, you’ll see no pictures like any of this. The combination of both computer algorithms and video hardware has put the ability to take astonishingly good imagery into the hands of amateur astrophotographers. Still, some efforts seem an order of magnitude more amazing than others, and these definitely count.

Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine.

Astonishing.