#astrophotography — Public Fediverse posts

The crescent moon next to the star Tau Scorpii (τ Sco, or Al Niyat, or Paikauhale) shortly after sunset.

The star is blue and in the lower left corner of the frame.

Compare to the video I just posted:
https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/117442556010572409

#NewMexico #Moon #Astronomy #Astrophotography #Photography #Telephoto

Charon in Plutoshine

This beautiful image obtained with the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft shows the night side of Pluto's large, Texas-sized moon Charon, against a star field, lit by faint, reflected light from Pluto itself. The bright cresc...

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA11708
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

#pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

https://www.ufofeed.com/306049/sudden-bright-appearance-near-polaris/ Sudden bright appearance near Polaris #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Dreamy!

High cloud drifting in caused haloes around everything and messed with the tracking a bit. But despite that, I kind of like the final result of my experimental wide pano of the Witch Head nebula.

#astrophotography #space #astronomy #Astrodon

Caldwell 13, the Dragonfly Cluster, is an open star cluster in Cassiopeia. Distance: approximately 7,920 light-years. This young stellar grouping reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight in mid-October, making it an optimal target for deep-sky imaging this season.

https://astrocamp.eu/en/caldwell-13-dragonfly-cluster/

#astrophotography #astronomy #nature #OpenCluster

https://www.ufofeed.com/306031/eastern-veil-ngc-6995-6992/ Eastern Veil (NGC 6995/6992) #Astronomy #Astrophotography

https://www.ufofeed.com/306023/m-33-triangulum-galaxy-3/ M 33, Triangulum galaxy #Astronomy #Astrophotography

https://www.ufofeed.com/306015/m33-triangulum-galaxy-in-halrgb/ M33: Triangulum Galaxy in HaLRGB #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Over 9 hours of dual-band integration on the Heart Nebula (IC 1805) & Fish Head (IC 1795)! Captured across two nights with the Seestar S30 Pro in EQ mode. Rendered in the Hubble palette.

🔭 S30 Pro + Dual-Band | ⏱️ 1,087×30s (~9h 3m total)
⚙️ Stacking: StackingWizard (2x Drizzle, ~19.6x SNR)
🪄 AstroWizard: GraXpert, Background Neutralization, BlurX/NoiseX/StarX, Hubble Palette
🎨 Lightroom (4:5 crop)

#Astrophotography #HeartNebula #Photos #Space #Astronomy #EmissionNebula

14-10-2026 Image Of The Day
https://app.astrobin.com/u/hugues-talbot?i=ysjthu#gallery
143h on G304.4-3.1 — the θ Muscae supernova remnant by Hugues Talbot
 #astrophotography

https://www.ufofeed.com/306003/dumbbell-nebula-from-my-yard-with-the-seestar-30s/ Dumbbell nebula from my yard with the seestar 30s #Astronomy #Astrophotography

https://www.ufofeed.com/305993/andromeda-halrgb/ Andromeda – HaLRGB #Astronomy #Astrophotography

IC5146 (Zámotek)
SkyWatcher 254/1000, Baader MPCC III, QHY163M, EQ6-R Pro Synscan, ASI 120 MINI MONO Guiding, 120x60s L, 30x60s R, G, B, Ha
https://astrofotky.cz/gallery.php?show=Howking/1791988337.jpg
velké rozlišení: https://howking.cz/astro/IC5146_20261013_max.jpg
Málo času, o půlnoci přišla oblačnost, ale kdo ví, kdy zas bude jasno.
#astronomy #astrophotography #science

Here we go. My most ambitious processing to date.

The #HelixNebula (aka #C63 , aka #NGC7293 ) is probably the closest planetary nebula to Earth.

This image is created from subframes taken with my #Dwarf3 over 2 years and 18 sessions. I started with 4791 frames, 3816 ended up being stacked. A total of over 55 hours of observing time. Most of which I slept through. It took nearly 10 hours to stack inside the telescope itself.

In amongst the Ha/OIII frames there is also one 3 hour session of SII/OIII, which brings the blue out a bit more.

Restacked using the Dwarflab onboard Megastack, then post processed in their cloud Stellar Studio. Final recombining and tuning in #Snapseed .

#Astronomy #Astrophotography #Astrodon #SmartTelescope #BackyardAstronomy #SouthernSky #PerthWA

Still from Planetwide Movie

This single frame from a color movie of Jupiter from NASA Cassini spacecraft shows what it would look like to unpeel the entire globe of Jupiter, stretch it out on a wall into the form of a rectangular map.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA02864
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

#jupiter #cassini #cassinihuygens #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

https://www.ufofeed.com/305981/melotte-15-in-the-center-of-the-heart-nebula/ Melotte 15 In the center of the Heart Nebula #Astronomy #Astrophotography

https://www.ufofeed.com/305975/m39-pyramid-cluster/ M39 – Pyramid Cluster #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Las imágenes de hoy se han obtenido a través de nubes altas aunque con escasa turbulencia; no obstante, la definición se ha visto afectada, tanto en Fotosfera como en Cromosfera. Tal como se adivinaba ayer, la AR4551 ha cambiado su clasificación a ß-γ.

#sun #nature #astronomy #astrophotography #chromosphere

Dione as seen by Voyager 2

Cracks, canyons, craters, and streaks are seen in this image of Saturn icy moon, Dione, taken from Voyager 2 on August 3, 2005.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18183
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#dione #voyager #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

https://www.ufofeed.com/305959/the-milky-way-i-think/ The Milky Way (I think) #Astronomy #Astrophotography

October 14, 2026

Mars and the Beehive Under an Aurora
* Credit: Petr Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava), Josef Kujal, Vojan Höfer
https://www.instagram.com/petrhoralek
https://www.instagram.com/josef.kujal/
https://www.instagram.com/VoBaPhoto/
https://www.slu.cz/phys/en/

Explanation:
What a cosmic coincidence! In today’s image, Mars joins the Beehive cluster (M44 or Praesepe) below an auroral curtain and above a horizon of happy little trees near Lansjärv, Sweden. An eruption off the Sun reached Earth on October 10th, 2026 causing strong disturbances in Earth’s magnetic field. Energetic particles from the eruption collide with and energize the molecules in Earth’s atmosphere, which release that extra energy as the colorful aurora captured here. Auroras, or guovssahasat in North Sámi, is traditionally viewed with respect by the Sámi people indigenous to Sweden and other Arctic regions. Coincidentally, Mars appeared closest to the center of the Beehive cluster in the sky at the time. Although bees have been to space, the Beehive cluster is actually a swarm of young stars. Their rotation periods have helped humanity learn about how stars spin slower over time as they lose mass through their stellar winds.

https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod-2026-october-14-mars-and-the-beehive-under-an-aurora/

#space #earth #aurora #astrophotography #photography #NASA #science #physics #nature #education #apod #4sAur

https://www.ufofeed.com/305937/m31-andromeda-54/ M31 – Andromeda #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Rosetta at Comet

Artist impression of the Rosetta orbiter at comet 67P/Churyumova-Gerasimenko. The image is not to scale.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA17666
Credit: ESA/ATG Medialab

#comet #rosetta #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

https://www.ufofeed.com/305927/sadr-region-north-american-nebula-untracked-17-minute-exposure/ Sadr Region + North American Nebula (Untracked, 17 Minute Exposure) #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Gisteravond was het helder dus stargazen.Sh2-142, beter bekend als de Tovenaarsnevel De nevel bevindt zich op een afstand van ongeveer 7.200 tot 10.400 lichtjaar van de aarde, edited met pixelinsight en de bekende Hubble-kleurenpalet-nabewerking (SHO) #astronomy #astrophotography #seestar

first light on a new refractor! (WO MightyCat 71 f/3.2)

narrowband image (H-alpha, 3nm) of emission nebulae in the constellation Cygnus

30 mins integration time (6x300s)

stretched mono image mapped equally to RGB, red left basically flat, blue/green lowered in the shadows and boosted in the highlights

(hopefully compression doesn’t fully murder the details… i’m in love with how this palette brings out fine structures as mist channeling through the contours of sharp, rocky terrain)

#astrophotography

https://www.ufofeed.com/305921/snow-collar-galaxy-ngc-1269/ Snow Collar Galaxy – NGC 1269 #Astronomy #Astrophotography

https://www.ufofeed.com/305915/the-great-orion-nebula-9/ The Great Orion Nebula #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Rosetta Comet Spreads its Jets

This image was taken by the Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System, Rosetta main onboard scientific imaging system, on Sept. 10, 2014. Jets of cometary activity can be seen along almost the entire body of the comet. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18886

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18886
Credit: Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

#comet #rosetta #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

The #astronomy group I associate with, #AGWA have a target of the month each month. This month it is #C63 , the #HelixNebula .

Now over the past few years I have shot this target a lot.

So I am now gathering together *all* my session data, going the Full Tim and stacking it all. I don't know how many hours it is. Lots.

Wish me luck!

#astrophotography #Astrodon #dwarf3

Sorry I missed World Space Week Fediverse.

Here's some of what I did over the past couple of nights. Orion is Nyingarn the Echidna in some of the local people's astronomy, so let's give that a go.

Koomba Nyingarn Djinda Koondart

Big Echidna Star Cloud sounds a reasonable translation.

#NyoongarLanguage
#Astrodon #SouthernHemisphereAstronomy #BackyardAstrophotography #DrivewayAstrophotography #Nebula #SmartTelescope #Astronomy #Astrophotography #Dwarf3 #DwarfLabs

https://www.ufofeed.com/305901/pleiades-m45-21/ Pleiades (M45) #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Crescent moon at sunset. (1/60, f/6.3, ISO 8000, 140 mm.)
#astrophotography

https://www.ufofeed.com/305893/m-27-with-some-tracking-troubles/ M 27 with some tracking troubles #Astronomy #Astrophotography

So this was taken out of my window, with the extreme light-polution of Eindhoven and my tripple monitors that were not(!) turned of…

I am going to say that this is recognizable as an image of the pleiades! 😊

#photography #astrophotography

(Equipment: Sony α7c, Samyang 135 mm f/1.8; Shot at ISO 2000, f/1.8, 2.5 seconds)

I've a coworker who makes jokes about Londoners not know what grass or #stars look like. But then, he's never seen the Blythe skies of #Catford (Zone 3)

And nor had I until a #walktober evening #walk took me that way.

#Astrophotography #nightphotography #London #lookUp #photography

https://www.ufofeed.com/305881/orion-nebula-in-mostly-natural-color/ Orion Nebula in (mostly) Natural Color #Astronomy #Astrophotography

https://www.ufofeed.com/305869/the-shark-nebula-ldn-1235/ The Shark Nebula (LDN 1235) #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Milky Way over Algonquin

📍Kioshkokwi (Kiosk) Lake, Algonquin Park, Canada. 10/11/26
#astrophotography #algonquinpark #milkyway

Aurora Borealis and the Big Dipper.

📍Kioshkokwi (Kiosk) Lake, Algonquin Park, Canada. 10/10/26
#astrophotography #auroraborealis #northernlights

I'm working on photos from this weekend and wondering what these lines in the images are when I zoom in. I'm used to seeing one or two but not a dozen across the image.

Is this a bunch of Starlink satellites? Pic converted to greyscale to highlight the anomaly.

#astrophotography #starlink

13-10-2026 Image Of The Day
https://app.astrobin.com/u/xultaeculcis?i=r9fr95#gallery
N44 in Narrowband by Michal Wierzbinski
 #astrophotography

Uranus as seen by NASA Voyager 2

This is an image of the planet Uranus taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18182
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#uranus #voyager #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

Berufjörður in eastern Iceland, 9pm in early November.

Canon EOS 6D MkII, ISO-6400, f/4.5, 4 sec. exposure.

#AuroraTuesday #NorthernLights #aurora #AuroraBorealis #Iceland #Photography #AstroPhotography #Astrodon #AtOptics

#SmartphonePhotography #astrophotography

https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/i-used-my-iphone-to-photograph-the-stars-here-are-the-subtle-tweaks-that-produced-stunning-results?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into DOF (DEPTH-OF-FIELD) @dof-depth-of-field-nndflip

October 13, 2026

Desert Stairway to Heaven
* Credit & Copyright: Julien Looten
https://www.flickr.com/photos/julienlooten/

Explanation:
This stairway in Chile brings you only a little bit closer to heaven. But ooh, the sky above it makes you wonder. For example, you may wonder about the dark lane of our own Milky Way galaxy rising behind the expansive Atacama Desert in Chile, the band of zodiacal light on the upper left, the green and red airglow just above the horizon, the star Spica in the zodiacal light stripe, and, at the very top on the right, the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy. The Desert Staircase sculpture is in the foreground, and this image was timed to catch the picturesque peering perch just in front of the near-vertical Milky Way band. Upon close inspection of the horizon you can find, left to right, some Andes Mountains, the Licancabur volcano, and the town lights of San Pedro de Atacama. The featured wide-angle composite was captured in July 2025.

https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod-2026-october-13-desert-stairway-to-heaven/

#space #earth #milkyway #astrophotography #photography #science #nature #NASA #apod

The crescent moon and Mercury in the evening sky as seen from the mountains of New Mexico.

#NewMexico #Moon #Crescent #Mercury #Photography #Astrophotography #Telephoto #Mountains

Ich befürchte ich habe ein neues Hobby #astrophotography #dwarf3 #dwarflabs einfach so mal eben 2.5 MILLIONEN in der Zeit zurück ein Foto machen, diese #smarttelescope Technologie ist einfach komplett INSANE! Danke an den lieben Sven vom Podcast #DieZweiVomFeld für die Leihgabe

12-10-2026 Image Of The Day
https://app.astrobin.com/u/Massimiliano?i=315dy0#gallery
Roques de García by Massimiliano F. - Alnitak the Star
 #astrophotography