Ted Stryk

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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver. Asteroid (230728) Tedstryk Images I post are Copyright Ted Stryk (processed or taken by me) unless otherwise noted. Professor at Roane State CC in Oak Ridge, TN

A view from Viking 1 in 1976, showing Martian dunes and the boulder "Big Joe."
Comet Neowise against the Knoxville skyline with the Sunsphere on the left.
Blue sky erroneously saying I'm in Texas
Mars from Psyche (2026) and Triton from Voyager 2 (1989)
Juno Io image from perijove 74.
The last bit of the photosphere going behind the eclipsed sun
My son Chase looking through the telescope.
The moon in earthshine, the solar corona, and the planet Venus towards the top from the Clementine spacecraft in 1994.
The Moon on the morning of April 6th using my phone and a 10-inch (0.25m) reflector.
The moon on April 6th, 2026, with trees in the foreground visible on the right.
The Moon on the morning of April 6th using my phone and a 10-inch (0.25m) reflector.
A photomosaic of the rim of Mare Orientale from Apollo 17. The illumination is from reflected light from earth.
Charon (upper left) and Pluto (lower right)
A long scan of the lunar surface centered on the Catena Davy crater chain.
The moon in the clouds setting into the trees.
The eclipsed Moon among the trees.
Clouds above the horizon showing where the eclipse should be
Jupiter, with the great red spot and the shadow of Io, from Pioneer 10
The smooth surface of Enceladus.
All Members of the Solar System Beyond Saturn and Smaller Than 80 Kilometers In Diameter for Which We Have Disk-Resolved Imagery shown at 1 km/pixel (at least in the original version, Bluesky may alter the scale). Data for Pluto’s Moons (Styx, Nix, Kerberos, Hydra) and Arrokoth from New Horizons Courtesy NASA/SWRI/APL. Data for Naiad (Neptune), Belinda (Uranus), and Cordelia (Uranus) from Voyager 2 Courtesy NASA/JPL
The sampling arm of Luna 20 in two different positions. I am not sure the actual order in which this sequence was taken.
A heart shaped volcanic feature on Io from Voyager 1.
Three progressively more distant views of Mercury from Mariner 10.
The Uranian rings silhouetted against the planet.
The volcanic surface of Io.
A high resolution view of a crescent Io with mountains near the terminator.
The lunar surface at a high illumination angle.
Approaching Oberon. Sadly, owing to its longer orbit/rotation, Voyager did not get much coverage beyond the encounter hemisphere.
The first image of Umbriel to clearly show a bright spot
Titania at zero (full) phase
The opposite side of Ariel from closest approach
From a day out, the fact that this isn't a cratered, dead world was becoming clear.
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Uranus and its rings as Voyager approached it from the south
Neptune and Triton from Voyager 2 on June 24, 1989
Oberon and Titania from Voyager 2
Left: Pluto Right (top): Charon Right (bottom): Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra
The moon at various phases and angled from spacecraft that were heading by on their way somewhere else.
The first version of my previous post, captioned "Uranus, moon of Uranus, with its rings on January 23, 1986, as Voyager 2 approached, looking down on the planet's south pole." Uranus is not a moon of Uranus.
Uranus encircled by its ring system from Voyager 2.
A crescent Triton roughly centered in front of a crescent Neptune.
Io from Jupiter. The night side can be seen in light reflected off of Jupiter.
Ganymede from the approaching Voyager 1. This was produced using images taken through Voyager's Violet, Orange (it was red-blind), blue, and green filters.
A crescent Jupiter from the Galileo orbiter
New Horizons
This view of Enceladus shows craters, some with modified shapes from later activity, plus a finger of a smooth region to the left.
All sorts of fractures can be seen on the icy surface of Europa.
A large eddy can be seen to the upper right.
The clouds of Saturn. Several eddys can be seen.
Ganymede, centered on a crater in a complex are of the surface.
Half-phased Dione from Voyager 1.