Kepler is an isolated crater on the edge of the Oceanus Procellarum with evident rays due to the impact of a meteorite.
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Aristarchus
Aristarchus is a crater with a diameter of 40 km and is one of the brightest areas on the Moon.
Close to it there are the Herodotus crater from which the deep rhyme Vallis Schroteri starts and the ghost crater Prinz.
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The Rosetta Nebula
The Rosetta Nebula, C 49 or NGC 2237, is a diffuse nebula in Monoceros constellation.
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The Horsehead Nebula
The Horsehead Nebula, or IC 434, is a dark nebula in Orion constellation near the star Alnitak.
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The Orion Nebula
The Orion Nebula, or M 42 or NGC 1976, is a bright diffuse nebula just below the Orion belt at a distance of about 1300 years from us.
NGC 891 is a spiral galaxy viewed from the edge in the constellation Andromeda; it is also possible to observe the lane of dark dust that crosses it in half.
M 33 or NGC 598 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of the Triangle; it is relatively close to us and its apparent size is greater than that of the Moon, but it is almost impossible to see it with the naked eye due to its low brightness.
M2 or NGC 7089 is a globular cluster in the constellation of Aquarius, it is consists of 150,000 stars within a sphere of only 175 light years in diameter.
It is 13 billion years old.
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The Cocoon nebula
The Cocoon nebula or IC 5146 is a nebula about 15 light years large.
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The rotation of Jupiter
In this sequence of 4 frames of Jupiter on the night of 9-10 August 2021 in a time span of about 30 minutes it is possible to see the rotation of the planet.
The north pole is at the bottom left.