#astrophotography — Public Fediverse posts

October 16, 2026

Chasing the International Space Station
* Video Credit: Eric Holland
* Text: Jerry Bonnell

Explanation:
Blasting into the predawn sky on Tuesday, October 13, a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft are headed for low Earth orbit in this stunning timelapse video captured from Indian Harbour Beach, Florida. Starting with a launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Falcon and Dragon are chasing the International Space Station on NASA's 35th Commercial Resupply Services mission. On cue, the space station itself enters the frame from the top. Almost 8 seconds into the 30 second timelapse. the bright streak of the ISS appears heading "down" toward the horizon. The first and second stages of the Falcon 9 are separating as the spectacular exhaust plume jellyfish grows, already catching the light of the rising Sun. The visible sequence of first stage boost back, re-entry, and landing burns begins around 20 seconds into the video. With the second stage following the ISS toward the distant horizon, the jellyfish plume continues to drift in the predawn sky, even after the successful first stage landing at planet Earth's Landing Zone 40.

https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod-2026-october-16-chasing-the-international-space-station/

#space #spacecraft #iss #earth #aurora #astrophotography #photography #NASA #science #physics #tech #nature #apod

Orion early this morning taken with my iPhone

#orion #astrophotography #photography #iphone

Here is a screenshot of a RAW file (underexposed to save the highlights)..

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#nikon #nikkor #nikond850 #D850 #Nikkor500mm #moon #moonPhotography #astroPhotography #travel #nature #outdoors #getoutside #hiking #mountains #fediart #mastoArt

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

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