Tunç Tezel

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Night sky photographer, retrograde operator. Eclipse chaser, TWAN member.

Zodiacal Light (left) and Milky Way (center) shines before dawn over eastern terrace of Mt. Nemrut statues at Nemrut Daği NP, Turkey.
Dwight Schultz giving a standard crazy-eyes look in a scene from The A-Team.
The Big Bang Theory scene, Sheldon and Penny are in Penny's car. Sheldon says: "Is there a check-the-check-engine-light light?"
Picture of an tourist information sign reading Khans Area in English, while the original says Inns Area (in Turkish).
Picture of a text from IAU WGSBN bulletin, which read as follows: (819712) Tezel = 2014 LL32 Discovery: 2014-06-06 / EURONEAR / Roque de los Muchachos / 950 Tunç Tezel (b. 1977) is a Turkish civil engineer, eclipse chaser, astrophotographer, and member of the Turkish Astronomy Society. Well-known for pictures of skyscapes and long-term motions of planets including retrograde motions and analemmas, he is also the creator of Tutulemma, an analemma photograph that includes a solar eclipse.
Neptune and Saturn trace their retrograde loops between 9th May 2025 and 25th February 2026. Saturn looks like a yellowish 1st magnitude star, tracing a loop of 7 degrees long, beginning in Pisces, then crossing to Aquarius at lower right just before October, and then making back to Pisces. Neptune's retrograde loop is more compact, visible as a series of 8th magnitude aqua-green dots spanning 3 degrees in Pisces. The separation between Saturn and Neptune changes along the course of the year, as the planets trace different retrograde loops according to their own orbital velocities around the Sun, and also their distance. This has been the closest Saturn and Neptune have been in the sky since their last conjunction in 1989.
The Big Bang Theory scene. It is a movie theatre, Kootrapali, Wolowitz, Leonard look at somewhere at the back as Wil Wheaton in a Star Trek TOG blue uniform says "Yeah?" and utters one of the best lines in movie business: "Live long and suck it!"
Mike Massimino in a space capsule says: "Don't lose your Froot Loops, Froot Loops." (The Big Bang Theory scene.)
Neptune amongst the stars of Pisces, in between Saturn and Mars; while the Mon partly visible at the upper left.
As seen from Artemis 2, the Moon with an earthshine crescent eclipses the Sun, and four planets are visible to the lower right of the Lunar disk. These are Saturn, faint Neptune (which needs a pointer), Mars and Mercury
Comet Hyakutake is visible with its long tail, not far from Alkaid and Mizar, two stars of Big Dipper in Ursa Major. Clouds shining in yellow-orange (because of the light pollution) are about to cover the comet in aqua-green colour.
Comet C/2025 K1 Atlas shines about 6 degrees away from bright galaxy pair M81 and M82 in Ursa Major.
Two total Lunar eclipse sequences from 21st February 2008, and 3rd March 2026 showing the reddish full Moon at the beginning, middle and the end of both eclipses.
The Moon in total eclipse on 3rd March 2026. Dark reds in upper left gradually go lighter towards lower right, which has bright red and orange tones; the full Moon looks like a peach.
Saturn, Mercury, Venus and the Moon shine through bright twilight in the evening of 19th February 2026. Lake Uluabat can be seen in the distance, overflowing its basin, filled with rains and snows of this wet and plentiful winter. The immediate foreground of fields around Kirazlı village is white with fresh snow.
A piece of 8-bit star map centered on open cluster NGC 2547 in Vela.
Star Trek: Lower Decks scene. Upon the choice of Bradward Boimler in a FRP game designed by Ferengi, General Martok in the computer game screen delivers in Pic. 1: "The bartender rips your arm off and kills you with it." As Mariner, Rutherford, Boimler and Tendi watches, Martok continues in Pic. 2: "It is not an honorable death..." Mariner slightly turns to Boimler and smirks in Pic. 3, while Martok says:"...since technically you have died by your own hand."
Annotated picture of the night sky from Ras Lanuf, Libya, with the constellation Eridanus in full view.
Coffee cup of Worf, Son of Mogh, House of Martok, Son of Sergei, House of Rozhenko, Bane of the Duras Family, Slayer of Gowron.
Chief O'Brien, who is also the role model for Chuck Norris, sits on a makeshift raft, legs half in water, is looking at his torn pants and says in dismay: "I don't believe it!"
Carrie Fisher holding an M-16 rifle, still from a scene in Blues Brothers.
Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One is looking serious, saying "I have no desire to have fun".
View of Titan's surface, as seen from the camera of Huygens lander. It looks like a dry lake bed with various size of pebbles. General colour is orange, because of the methane haze in the atmosphere of Titan.
Parade of elephants walking in Amboseli NP, with the setting Sun in the background.
Star Trek Lower Decks scene, Shax asserts authority saying fighting fascism is a full-time job.