I captured a 200 hour exposure of Jupiter moving through Taurus and Perseus near the Pleiades. This shot got me shortlisted as astronomy photographer of the year! [OC]

This is a 6 panel mosaic captured with a 135mm lens and a cooled cmos camera. It was captured around retrograde so the planet’s motion wouldn’t severely effect the shot, but it was still quite difficult to capture and involved reshooting the lower left panel repeatedly to get clean results.

The image features the California nebula in the upper left, and the brown clouds are mainly molecular hydrogen, the interstellar dust that is the foundation of all matter in the universe.

See more about this image on my [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/cosmic_background/?hl=en)

Do you have a link to somewhere it’s not so much compressed?