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Ethan Chappel

@chappelastro.com
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26-year old astrophotographer in Cibolo, TX, USA www.chappelastro.com

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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 29/09/2026
Saturn with Mimas and Dione on August 3rd, 2026. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 27/06/2026
Movement of Jupiter's cloud bands over nearly 2 hours on March 30th. The Equatorial Zone travels to the east at 70 kilometers per hour, or 160 miles per hour, at the equator to 430 kph/270 mph at the edges. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 02/06/2026
Tros crater is visible on Ganymede as a bright spot on the left.
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 02/06/2026
Jupiter with Io and Ganymede on March 30th, 2026. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 23/05/2026
Another image in visible light at dawn.
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 23/05/2026
Saturn in near-infrared on May 13th. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 16/05/2026
The Great Red Spot measures about 13,700 km wide in this image, slightly more than Earth's diameter of 12,750 km. I used the "Hello, World" image from Artemis II to make a comparison between our home and the largest planet in the Solar System.
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 16/05/2026
Jupiter with the Great Red Spot on March 30th, 2026. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 12/05/2026
Saturn is back! After passing behind the Sun in late-March, Saturn is rising out of the morning twilight. The southern hemisphere is tilted more towards us than last year as it moved away from last year's equinox and towards the next solstice in 2032. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 08/05/2026
Jupiter with the Great Red Spot on March 25th, 2026. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 05/05/2026
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 05/05/2026
Jupiter with an Io shadow transit on March 23rd, 2026. Notice how the shadow appears elongated as it hits the edge of the planet. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 01/05/2026
Jupiter with the Great Red Spot through good seeing conditions despite gusty winds. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 29/04/2026
Crop of Callisto and the Great Red Spot.
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 29/04/2026
Jupiter with Callisto on March 1st. Close inspection of Callisto reveals hints of its old and battered surface. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 11/04/2026
Jupiter through good seeing conditions on March 3rd, 2026. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 10/04/2026
Clouds cleared out enough to record them just before dawn started, a relief since it looked like I would be clouded out for the entire mission.
Dobsonian telescope with the Moon shining through clouds in the background.
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 10/04/2026
Artemis II mission returning to Earth from the Moon on April 8th, as dawn was starting here. Integrity was 338,000 km away at the start, and nearly 1,000 km closer at the end 23 minutes later #Artemis #ArtemisII #NASA #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 03/04/2026
Jupiter with the Great Red Spot near the limb on February 17th, 2026. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 20/11/2025
Saturn with Tethys and Enceladus on October 10th, 2025. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 19/11/2025
Jupiter on October 1st, 2025. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 15/11/2025
Saturn with Tethys, Dione, and Rhea on September 2nd, 2025. 12 years to the night after my first shot of the ringed planet with an EdgeHD 8 and original USB 2.0 ASI120MM. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 17/10/2025
2025-10-13 10:19-10:27, 11:54, 12:35 UTC Cibolo, Texas, USA Sky-Watcher FlexTube 400P SynScan, Player One Uranus-C & M, APM Comacorrecting 1.25" ED Barlow 2.7x, Optolong UV/IR-Cut, Baader 685nm IR-Pass, ZWO ADC FireCapture, AutoStakkert!, AstroSurface, PixInsight, WinJUPOS, Affinity Photo
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 17/10/2025
Jupiter occulted the star a couple hours later as the Sun was rising. Look closely and you can see it become more twinkly in the moments before it disappears, a glimpse of Jovian seeing conditions from my backyard on Earth.
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 17/10/2025
Jupiter was in the line of sight between us and the magnitude 7.9 star HD 61660 on October 13th, appearing as an interloper among the Galilean Moons. It's an orange star 25x more luminous than the Sun and 660 light years away. Europa had a very close pass from home. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 27/09/2025
Titan casting its shadow on Saturn on August 3rd, 2025. Tethys is also transiting just above the rings, but they were blocking the view its shadow. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 22/09/2025
Neptune and Triton on September 19th, 2025. Look carefully and you'll notice the subtle gradient from brighter in the south to darker in the north. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 14/09/2025
Jupiter on September 10th, 2025. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
Jupiter with the Great Red Spot near the central meridian.
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 12/09/2025
Uranus with several of its moons on August 30th, 2025. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 10/09/2025
Mars on November 17th, 2024. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 09/09/2025
Jupiter on September 3rd, 2025. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 07/09/2025
Saturn on August 29th, 2025. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 05/09/2025
Crops on various regions of interest around the image.
Cropped image on Barnard 33 and NGC 2023.Cropped image on Flame Nebula and Alnitak, the left star Orion's belt.Cropped image on IC 341 and IC 342.Cropped image on IC 435.
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 05/09/2025
Horsehead & Flame Nebulas with Alnitak, the bright star on the left of Orion's belt. #Astrophotography
Image of the Horsehead Nebula, Flame Nebula, Alnitak, and other features of interest around it in the constellation of Orion.
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 03/09/2025
Jupiter with the Great Red Spot on August 29th, 2025. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 15/08/2025
Saturn on August 9th, 2025 with ring spokes to the left. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 13/08/2025
Jupiter with the Great Red Spot yesterday morning in visible light and near-infrared. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 06/08/2025
Jupiter this morning. Finally becoming viable to catch a decent image of it as it rises away from the morning twilight. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 28/06/2025
Venus on June 21st, 2025 in bi-color IR-UV to emphasize the cloud features in the atmosphere. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 26/06/2025
UV gives a drastically different view of the ringed planet.
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 26/06/2025
Saturn on June 21st, 2025. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 03/06/2025
A distant view of Mars on June 2nd, 2025, over 2.5x farther than it was at its closest approach in January. Clouds can be seen over Olympus Mons just right of center and the three Tharsis volcanoes to the lower-right of it. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 02/06/2025
Venus on June 1st, 2025 in false-color IR-UV to enhance features in the cloudtops. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 01/06/2025
Saturn on June 1st, 2025. The rings are continuing to brighten as they open towards the Sun. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 14/05/2025
Saturn is back in the morning sky but something looks different. Just a few days after equinox, it's autumn in the north & spring in the south. The dark line cutting across the planet are the rings, not their shadow. They are very dark when sunlight hits them at a shallow angle. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 09/05/2025
Transit of #exoplanet WD 1856+534 b across its white dwarf host star. An unusual system where we see a small white dwarf star partially occulted by a giant planet every 1.4 days, resulting in a much deeper decrease in brightness than most exoplanet transits. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 11/04/2025
#Jupiter with the Great Red Spot on September 25th, 2024. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 10/04/2025
#Saturn and Rhea from July last year. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 07/04/2025
#Mars on December 20th, 2024 with some clouds over the north polar cap. #Astrophotography
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Ethan Chappel @chappelastro.com · 17/03/2025
2025-01-14 1:52, 2:51 UTC Cibolo, Texas, USA (29° N, 98° W) Hardware Sky-Watcher FlexTube 400P SynScan⁠, Player One Uranus-C, Optolong UV/IR Cut 1.25", APM Comacorrecting 1.25" ED Barlow 2.7x, ZWO ADC Software FireCapture, AutoStakkert!, AstroSurface, Image Composite Editor, Affinity Photo
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