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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

From his Bortle 5-backyard in Oak Ridge, NJ, Brian spent 29hrs collecting this deep-sky look at NGC 7331. Zoom in & you’ll spot 4 more distant galaxies lurking in the background. Together, they make up the #DeerLickGroup — a quiet cluster of spiral galaxies. 🔭: Celestron EdgeHD 8" & Off-Axis Guider

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

History captured! Charline captured an extraordinary image w/ her #Celestron 11" #EdgeHD w/ a 2x Barlow lens — #NASA astronaut #SunitaWilliams at the end of the #ISS’s robotic arm during a #spacewalk! This marks the first time a female astronaut has been photographed from Earth during a spacewalk!

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

When the #skiesarecalling, you pack the car, chase the dark, and let the stars guide your way. Chris spent the weekend in the #EasternSierra, where the #RASA8 captured the: 🔹 #ClamshellNebula 🔹 #M5 🔹 #B142-143 This is what happens when clear skies meet fast optics—and you answer the call.

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Up in the Pacific Northwest, Jason (@supe_rn_ova) spotted not one, but two bald eagles 🦅 perched high on a distant treetop. Swipe through to witness their stunning departures—captured through a NexStar Evolution 8" telescope using only a smartphone. 🔭📱

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Nick captured his largest data set yet! Using his C11 with Hyperstar, he brought M31 to life in a striking SHO palette. This isn’t your typical Andromeda shot—and the detail shows just how much time and effort went into it. Incredible work, Nick! 🔥 More details about this image: bit.ly/4jbv10x

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Armed with his Celestron 6" Schmidt-Cassegrain in HyperStar configuration, Clint (@spacecityastro) pushed through heavy light pollution to reveal the Sadr Star and IC 1318 (Butterfly Nebula Region). This image comprises a total exposure time of 15 hours and 6 minutes.⁠

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Huge congratulations to Alex on hosting 239 star parties in '25—bringing astronomy to communities across the USA & sharing the night sky with thousands along the way. And somehow, he’s already setting his sights on 250 parties in '26.

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

January is a great time to ease back into observing. Nights are long, the air is often steadier, and there’s plenty happening in the sky. Plan a few nights, dress warm, and enjoy the start of a new observing year. Clear skies! ✨

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The Winter Solstice is here, and that means more hours under dark, crisp skies. It’s one of the best seasons for stargazing, with bright constellations rising early and deep-sky treasures perfectly placed for viewing. Clear skies and happy Winter observing. ❄️🔭 www.celestron.com/wintersky

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The Ultimate Guide to Observing the Winter Sky (Northern Hemisphere)

Wintertime in the Northern Hemisphere – that magical season when nights stretch long, and the landscapes are wrapped in blankets of snow. The sky is a spectacle on these cold, crystal-clear winter nig...

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Thanks to the RASA 8's wide field of view, Celestron employee Chris H. captured the Ghost of Cassiopeia Nebula—which spans 10 light-years!—all in the same field. The Ghost of Cassiopeia contains both emission and reflection nebulae, IC 59 and IC 63.

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Armed with his Celestron 6" Schmidt-Cassegrain in HyperStar configuration, Clint pushed through heavy light pollution to reveal the Sadr Star and IC 1318 (Butterfly Nebula Region). This image comprises a total exposure time of 15 hours and 6 minutes.⁠

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

When the skies are calling, you pack the car, chase the dark, and let the stars guide your way.⁠ ⁠ Chris spent the weekend in the #EasternSierra, where the #RASA8 captured the:⁠ 🔹 #ClamshellNebula⁠ 🔹 #M5⁠ 🔹 B142-143⁠ ⁠ This is what happens when clear skies meet fast optics—and you answer the call.⁠

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

💥 Supernova SN2025rbs in NGC 7331 💥 Celestron Origin spotted NGC 7331 from light-polluted LA County. 🤯 Origin's blazing-fast RASA 6 optics cut through the glow and delivered the goods. 📸: Christopher Go #SN2025rbs #CelestronOrigin #NGC7331 #Astrophotography

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

✨🌙 December Nights Mean More Time Under the Stars 🌙✨ The nights stretch a little longer this month — the perfect chance to slow down and enjoy what’s happening overhead. Here’s what to look for in December:

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

We launched a bold new look. It’s everything you ❤️ about #Celestron, now redesigned to help you find the right gear, learn new skills, & dive deeper into 🌌. Win $200 to spend at Celestron.com. Want to enter? Drop your 📨 in the newsletter signup box. 🗓️ Nov 13–14,🏆 Winner picked Nov 17, 🌎 U.S. only

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🌽 November Nights Are Full of Thanks (and Sights)! 🍂⁠ ⁠ 🦃 Pour some hot cider, bundle up, and let the golden glow of fall guide your stargazing. There’s so much to be thankful for — especially skies like these! 🍁✨

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

#CelestronOrigin Mark II brings next-level imaging performance with an upgraded #Origin678CCamera, powered by Sony’s advanced Starvis 2 CMOS technology. It’s the same intelligent home observatory you know—now capturing the universe with higher resolution & improved sensitivity. bit.ly/3TPfY2w

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Avian Adventures Australia braved the breeze & drizzle on Tasmania’s Gordon River for #GlobalBigDay & loved every second. With Celestron binoculars & camera in hand, they logged sightings for science & conservation while enjoying their peaceful surroundings. 🦜🔭

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

🍂🔭 Fall Skies Are Calling! 🔭🍂 Longer nights bring big celestial shows—Neptune Opposition, 3 Supermoons, 2 Comets, Saturn's Ring Plane Crossing, and more! Save this guide and get your gear ready. 📸 Slide through to see the must-watch events of the season.

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🍂 Summer’s winding down, but the sky is still shining bright. Pack your scope, a light jacket, and soak up these September sights: Keep your summer stargazing streak alive—long nights are just around the corner! ✨

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

🌌Team Celestron member Thierry Legault captured the Lunar Occultation of Saturn on Jan 4th from Tarragona, Spain, using his C8 Edge HD. ✨ Bonus Detail: The star beside Saturn? That’s 85 Aquarius (magnitude 6.7) #LunarOccultation #Saturn #CelestronEdgeHD #Astrophotography #TeamCelestron #85Aquarius

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

✨ Under Bortle-6 skies in Sydney, James captured the beauty of NGC 3576, the Flame Nebula. This starless image truly brings the emission nebula to life. 🔥 🔭 Equipment: Celestron C8 #Astrophotography #FlameNebula #NGC3576 #CelestronC8 #Stargazing #CosmicWonders

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

🎨✨ Celestial Masterpieces Over Milan🌃⁠ ⁠ From Milan, Italy, the #CelestronOrigin reveals the #OrionNebula, #TriangulumGalaxy, and the #AndromedaGalaxy —all captured in under 35 minutes!⁠ ⁠ Bringing the stars closer, one snapshot at a time. 🌙🔭⁠ ⁠ 📷️: @celestronitalia⁠

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🎉 Celebrating 65 Years of Stargazing 🌌⁠ ⁠ Since 1960, we've been on a mission to make the universe more accessible, from the legendary C8 to today's cutting-edge telescopes and astrographs. And we’ve pushed the limits of amateur astronomy at every step along the way.⁠ ⁠ 👉 celestron.com/history⁠

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Think you’ve captured something incredible? 🌌 Whether you’ve imaged deep-sky objects or the planets in our Solar System, it’s time to show off your results. The Astrophotography Prize 2025 is officially open! 👉 Enter now at astrophotographyprize.com

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Thanks to the RASA 8's wide field of view, Celestron employee Chris H. (@hendrenimaging) captured the Ghost of Cassiopeia Nebula—which spans 10 light-years!—all in the same field. The Ghost of Cassiopeia contains both emission and reflection nebulae, IC 59 and IC 63.

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

✨ The #PillarsofCreation (#M16) captured by Team Celestron member ‪@dylanodonnell.bsky.social‬ from #ByronBay, #Australia. Using his #Celestron 11” #EdgeHD Telescope with an F7 Reducer, Dylan revealed the detail of this iconic nebula through 8.25 hours of integration.⁠ ⁠ #Astrophotography #Starstuff

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🌘✨ Using a #C14, Andrew McCarthy journeyed to the top of #MaunaKea in #Hawaii to cross an item off his bucket list: capturing a #LunarOccultation of #Saturn. 🪐🌑 ⁠ ⁠ What's on your astronomy #bucketlist?💫 ⁠ ⁠ #Astrophotography #CelestronC14 #BucketListMoment #SolarSystemViews #AndrewMcCarthy

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🐘✨ Behold #vdB142, famously known as the #Elephant’sTrunkNebula! Nestled within #Cepheus, it’s part of the larger #IC1396 #emissionnebula, which spans 100 light-years and lies 2,400 light-years away. 📸: Ron Brecher with the Celestron 14″ #EdgeHD from a mix of filters in the #RGB set. 🌌💫⁠

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Wes captured the stunning #spiralgalaxy #M106, located 22-25 million light-years away. 🌌✨ Similar in size and luminosity to Andromeda, M106 is a beauty of the cosmos! This impressive image took 18 hours of exposure using the #Celestron #EdgeHD 8 with a focal reducer. 🚀🔭

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

✨ What’s Up in the July #NightSky? ✨ July brings some of the best stargazing of the year — ☀️ July: #SolarMaximum 🌕 7/10: #FullMoon ✨ 7/16: #Saturn, #Pluto, & #Moon Conjunction ✨ 7/20: #M45 & Moon Conjunction 🌑 7/24: #NewMoon ☄️ 7/28: #DeltaAquarids #MeteorShower ✨ 7/28: #Mars & Moon Conjunction

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🚀🐘 Take a trip to #IC1396 – the #Elephant'sTrunkNebula, a breathtaking concentration of interstellar gas & dust 2.4K LY away in the constellation Cepheus. Andreas captured all the details w/ his #C8HD & Starizona #Hyperstar. 🌟

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

☀️🔭 #Summer Is Here—And There's Lots to See! 🔭☀️ The days are long and the night skies are rich! From #globularclusters to glowing #nebulae, #summerskies are full of jaw-dropping sights. 📸 Slide through this carousel to explore what you can capture and observe this season.

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

"Loving the Celestron Origin!" - Nancy 🌌✨ Check out this stunning capture of the #PelicanNebula by Nancy using the #CelestronOrigin Intelligent Home #Observatory. 🔭 With smart imaging at her fingertips, she's bringing the universe right to her backyard!

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🌿 Step into the #microscopic world! Here's a fascinating close-up of #PterisTremula fern spore sacs (Leptosporangia) at 200x magnification using #dark-field #microscopy and a #Celestron Labs CB1000CF Compound #Microscope. 🔬✨

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Fresh 📷️ from our #CelestronOrigin! This all-in-one #homeobservatory autonomously aligns itself, captures images for you w/ its 6" #RASA optics + onboard camera, stacks & processes every exposure using AI, & delivers a final stacked image to your mobile device in SECONDS.

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🌙🌕Straight from the #CelestronOrigin #telescope, here’s a shot of last year’s stunning #partiallunareclipse, taken from Lakewood, CA at exactly 7:55 PM. 🌌✨ No filters, no editing—just raw, celestial beauty, shared directly through the Celestron Origin app.

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🌊🐋 #SportOptics Product Manager John R. takes the #Celestron #Hummingbird Mini #SpottingScope to the stunning #PNW Coast! From spotting coastal 🐦️to catching a glimpse of majestic migrating 🐳, this compact scope delivers unbeatable clarity & portability for every adventure. 🌊

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

✨ On the shores of South #LakeTahoe, Tony Berendsen of #TahoeStarTours sets up the #CelestronOrigin for his guests to explore the night sky. With #Bortle Class 4 skies, South Lake Tahoe offers a perfect balance of dark skies and cosmic beauty, making it an unforgettable stargazing experience. 🔭🌌

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Chris H. scored a 2-for-1 w/ his latest 📷️, featuring #NGC6888 & the elusive #Ju1 just below it. Combining fresh Ha narrowband data from '21 & the bluish-green OIII fringe surrounding the Crescent, adding incredible depth to the image. #Celestron #CGX #RASA8 354m total exposure

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Wesley spent approx. 20H w/ his #Celestron #EdgeHD 8" & #focalreducer capturing the stunning #IC1848, aka the #SoulNebula. This #emissionnebula is located about 6,500 LY away in the constellation #Cassiopeia & is a #stellarnursery teeming with young stars.

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

✨ The Flower & the Eye—a celestial masterpiece, skillfully captured by Ryan. In the bottom left corner of this image, we encounter SH2-101, the Tulip Nebula, in full bloom. #Celestron #RASA8, all from a Bortle-7 backyard in Kitchener.

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

✨Captured by Drew Evans using his #Celestron 11" #EdgeHD with a #focalreducer, these images of the #KnifeEdgeGalaxy (NGC 5907) & the #LostGalaxy (NGC 4535) reveal the beauty & complexity of our universe. 🌌 📷️: #Bortle class 2 skies of #Flagstaff, #Arizona 🌠

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

📸 #Hotoffthesensor! 🔥 Under the #darkskies of Kennedy Meadows, CA, Chris H. captured not one, not two, but three breathtaking images with his #Celestron #AdvancedVX 8" #RASA + #StarSenseAutoguider! And can you believe it? No filters were used. 😲 Slide through his images.

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

✨🦉 #Guesswho? It's the #OwlNebula (M97)! 🦉✨ #Astrophotographer Ron Brecher, armed with his #Celestron 14″ #EdgeHD telescope, captured this image in just under 9 hours of data—truly bringing out detail on this #planetarynebula 😍🌌

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Captured in 8 hours using a HaGB palette & his Celestron 11" EdgeHD telescope, Team Celestron member @dylanodonnell.bsky.social was able to see details in Centaurus A that he had never seen before. Hop over to Dylan's YouTube channel for his breakdown of Centaurus A: bit.ly/3UPSOrL

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

🌟 From beginner to expert! Dylan O'Donnell (@dylanodonnell.bsky.social) started his astrophotography journey in 2014 with a NexStar 4SE and has mastered his craft over 10+ years. 🎥 Watch his full journey and tips here 🔗 l8r.it/HqP9

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Wesley Klehm spent approx. 20H w/ his Celestron EdgeHD 8" & focal reducer capturing the stunning IC 1848, aka the Soul Nebula. This emission nebula is located about 6,500 LY away in the constellation Cassiopeia & is a stellar nursery teeming with young stars.

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Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

✨ The Flower & the Eye—a celestial masterpiece, skillfully captured by Ryan (@rgenier_astro). In the bottom left corner of this image, we encounter SH2-101, the Tulip Nebula, in full bloom. Celestron RASA8, all from a Bortle-7 backyard in Kitchener

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