Paolo Porcellana – Astronomy Now

20 March 2023

Latest News

[ 23 February 2023 ] Webb images M92, one of the Milky Way’s oldest globular clusters News
[ 20 February 2023 ] The Eskimo: observe one of winter’s best planetary nebulae News
[ 16 January 2023 ] See all the planets in January News
[ 3 September 2022 ] Frank Drake, SETI pioneer, 1930–2022 News
[ 24 August 2022 ] Webb images of Jupiter show auroras, rings, moons News

“Huge Prominence Lift-off” by Paolo Porcellana

29 September 2015 Astronomy Now

This spectacular six-panel mosaic picture of a solar prominence was taken in Italy by astrophotographer Paolo Porcellana on 27 March 2015 using a home-made 150mm f/15 refractor — winning image of the Our Sun category in the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition 2015.