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VirtualAstro @virtualastro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This eveningsEclipse pics from Oxfordshire

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Totality from Andrew McCarthy 12.8.26 x.com/AJamesMcCart...

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Darren Carver @dazza1639.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Good news everyone! Astronomical darkness returns on Thursday/Friday, a shame it’s going to be cloudy, but it’s almost time to do some #Astrophotography

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Monkeys_at_the_zoo @monkeysatthezoo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

M27, the Dumbbell Nebula in Vulpecula. Apparently the first planetary nebula discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. Imaged over three nights from #Brisbane with a RASA8/ASI183MC combo. 345*60 second subs so almost 6 hours of data. Processed in Siril > Graxpert. Love the night sky... #astronomy

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Darren Carver @dazza1639.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

More experimenting with lukomatico,s #AstroWizard app. This time the #RosetteNebula #NGC2244 taken with my #ZWO #533mcPro and the #svbony #sv220 3nm dual and filter. Great work Luke, it’s seriously easy to use and get great results. #Astrophotography

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Darren Carver @dazza1639.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Just given lukomatico’s #AstroWizard a try on some old data. Very impressive Luke. I did get some strange results with the Graxpert step, but that could have just been a screen stretch issue so I didn’t apply it. #Astrophotography

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Darren Carver @dazza1639.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It’s that sad time of year again! Tuesday 12th May astronomical darkness disappears until August 5th for latitudes of 53° North😭 Goodbye darkness my old friend. #Astrophotography #Astronomy #AstronomicalDark

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The Dark Shark Nebula. 8 hours (over 2 nights) to capture the beast from the deep! Processed to reveal interstellar gas and dust in the northern constellation Cepheus, appearing as a shark-shaped silhouette against a star field. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The Dark Shark Nebula LDN 1235 is a dark/reflection nebula in Cepheus.

The Dark Shark is made from interstellar dust about 650 light years from us, so thick it hides most of the light from behind it.

Dark nebulae are extremely faint and this image was created from 2 nights of capture processed and sharpened with lots of saturation using a number of free apps.

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I've been a bit incommunicado today. Set up my new phone. Jupiter Castor Pollux triangle from earlier this year. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Planet Jupiter lower right with stars Castor and Pollux at upper left.

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Tim Anderson @timothya1956.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

IC2177 The Seagull Nebula #astrophotography

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Chaotic Nebula @chaoticnebula.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

So much detail in this #Astrophotography image of NGC 6888 - The Crescent Nebula. 6 nights to image 30 hours of data through narrowband filters 12" SCT scope A classic example of a Wolf-Rayet nebula - a massive star shedding its outer layers #photography #astronomy

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Jim Case @jimcase.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) is an iconic face-on spiral in Ursa Major with a large apparent size. I was able to capture this image with a very bright (94%) moon with the new Spectral Pro filter from my Bortle 7 suburban sky. More details in my gallery: app.astrobin.com/i/bipjbj?r=B #astrophotography

Circular form in center with spiral arms on both sides of the bright galaxy.

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Dan Burns @the-physics-well.net · 04/05/2026

I reprocessed my Splinter Galaxy supernova. A typical workflow processes stars separately from the galaxy so you don't over-expose them while bringing out details in the galaxy. What if one of the stars is a supernova? I made galaxy + SN and stars - SN images for this image. #astrophotography

The Splinter Galaxy (NGC 5907) with SN 2026kid on the nights of 4/30 and 5/1. The supernova is right of center, about 1/3 of the way out. Meade 8" SCT with ZWO ASI2600MM. The best 456 of 752, 60s exposures were stacked and processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Starnet++, and Photoshop.

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Bernd Flachsbart @bflachsbart.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

NGC 3486 captured from my patio on seven nights from mid March to early April 😊🔭 It was shot on the EdgeHD 8 for a total integration time of 34 hours in LRGB and Ha to enhance the star forming regions. #Astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social‬ what do you see?

NGC 3486 is a beautiful intermediate barred spiral Galaxy about 27 million light years away from Earth. It is located in the constellation of Leo Minor.

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Darren Carver @dazza1639.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Here is another #ISS pass this time it was taken during the early hours of May 1st. Again taken with my ZWO asi676mc #AllSky camera. #astrophotography

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Darren Carver @dazza1639.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

#ISS pass from my #allsky camera taken on 29th April 📷 ZWO asi676mc Still amazed by NASA & its partners every time I see the ISS pass overhead

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Darren Carver @dazza1639.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

AI rubbish! For a start that’s an octagon not a hexagon. The clue is the eight sides not six. Blocked for being dumb!

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Naztronomy @naztronomy.com · 12/04/2026

Check out my 12 panel, 71 hour mosaic of the Large Magellanic Cloud in both broadband and narrowband: app.astrobin.com/i/7thh0y Go full screen & zoom in! I presented it at NEAIC/NEAF for the first time yesterday and it was the main subject of both of my talks. #astronomy #astrophotography #space

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Large Magellanic Cloud HOORGB 12 Panel Mosaic - AstroBin

First shown to the public in my talk at NEAIC. Go full screen and zoom in 1x to see the breadth of the Large Magellanic Cloud! This is a giant 12 panel mosaic of the Large Magellanic Cloud taken over ...

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Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

IC 342 in the constellation Camelopardalis. It's called The Hidden Galaxy, because it's near the galactic equator where it's heavily obscured by the gas and dust of our Milky Way. #astronomy #astrophotography

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Whirlpool Galaxy - M51 My first attempt at using Siril Software (left) for processing compared to 'just' using the in-built Dwarflabs software and phone apps (right). You can see the difference/benefit. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Dwarf3 scope, 8.5 hours megastack of 60 second exposures. Duo-band filter.
Processed with Siril.

Processed with the Dwarflabs stellar studio, snapseed and lightleap phone apps.

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Martin Bracken - FRAS -CitySpaceAstro @cityspaceastro.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

M101- Pinwheel Galaxy It is mind boggling to think the magenta patches you can see dotted around the arms of the galaxy are actually nebula rich in Hydrogen alpha gas in an another galaxy 21 million light years away. Celestron C6, ASDI 585 MC, LPro filter #astrophotography #astronomy

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 22/03/2026

Timeline cleanser, some photons I caught on my driveway. This is Cederblad 214, part of the "Question Mark" nebula in Cepheus (I can't fit the whole question mark on my field of view with my telescope!). #astrophotography

A colorful space nebula in all the colors of the rain bow, sort of circular, with complex structures and some dark foreground nebulas

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Darren Carver @dazza1639.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Finally got around to processing my #RosetteNebula data from last week. 8 hours taken with my zwo #asi533mcPro with the excellent svbony #sv220 3nm Ha/Oiii filter #Astrophotography

The Rosette Nebula is an H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter.

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The Whirlpool Galaxy! 8.5 hours of data collected last night in 2 sessions and 'mega' stacked, processed with and without unrelated stars. There are actually 2 galaxies and gravity is pulling them together. Watch this space! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

M51 is approximately the diameter of 76,000 to 77,000 light-years, making it about 88% the size of the Milky Way.

Estimated at 160 billion solar masses, roughly 10.3% of our own galaxy's mass and contains roughly 100 billion stars.

The Whirlpool Galaxy (also known as Messier 51a, M51a, or NGC 5194) is a classic grand-design spiral galaxy located approximately 23 to 31 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici.

It is famous for its distinct, face-on spiral structure and its ongoing gravitational interaction with the nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 5195.

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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I captured 20 hrs of integration time on the Flaming Star and Tadpole Nebulae. Look closely at the heart of IC 410, you'll see two tadpole-like structures. High-resolution: app.astrobin.com/i/nfzwvn #astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #eastcoastkin #photography

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Candidate for substorm of 2026 just now… wow!

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Cath Elizabeth @cathelizabeth.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The Pleiades- M45 Imaged tonight with my Seestar S30, S30 Pro and S50 All three images are straight off the scopes, no post processing. It’s one of my favourite targets, a beautiful asterism located in the constellation Taurus. First Light Optics #seestars

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🌬D a y d r e a m Astro 🌈⃤ @daydreamastro.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

It's been a long time coming... Spider nebula is our current target but we will lose it from our view soon. Sadly we need SO much more data on this...so maybe a no go until next year. Here is a rough process of the data so far though #astronomy #astrophotography

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Seumas Dòmhnal Ross @n7myw.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Finally, a reasonably clear night that lasted for more than an hour or two. Horsehead nebula (Barnard 33) in the Orion constellation as well as the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) #dragondigitalphotography #horseheadnebula #orion #flamenebula #dwarf3

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Amateur astrophotography, nature photos @rpazenko.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237) is a giant emission nebula (about 5,200 light-years from Earth) that resembles a cosmic flower (or skull). Total exposure 1 hour 40 minutes. Canon 500D + Jupiter 37A #astrophotography #Canon500D #Kropyvnytskyi

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Darren Carver @dazza1639.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

First nearly clear full night since I finished the #AllSky camera. So here is last nights #StarTrails image. I must say Indi-AllSky is awesome thanks for the recommendation Dylan @dylanodonnell.bsky.social #Astrophotography

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Darren Carver @dazza1639.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A bit of a personal question, but show us your rig! 😳 #Astrophotography

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Dan Burns @the-physics-well.net · 18/03/2026

"Looking through the bent-backed tulips To see how the other half lives Looking through a glass onion" - McCartney/Lennon Actually this is the Sliced Onion Galaxy, NGC 3344. If it was closer than 22.5 MLY, it might be the prettiest galaxy in the sky! Details in ALT. #astrophotography

a face on spiral galaxy with delicate blue spiral arms dotted with tiny pink H II regions. The arms wrap tightly around a slightly elongated yellow center. Meade 8" SCT with ZWO ASI2600MM camera. The best 360 of 460, 90s exposures stacked and processed with Astro Pixel processor, Starnet++, and Photoshop.

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Nico Carver @nebulaphotos.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My image of 'The Tadpoles of IC410' is today's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day! Check it out here: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26031... #astrophotography

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Darren Carver @dazza1639.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

More #Astrophotography targets I should be shooting, if it wasn’t for the awful weather! This time M81 & M82 it’s been a few years and I wanted to try with the C8. Anyway here are the 2021 versions using a 400mm focal length scope

M81 bodes galaxy & M82 the cigar galaxy, probably the most famous galaxy pairing in the night sky

A zoomed in version of M82 the Cigar Galaxy. Messier 82 is a starburst galaxy approximately 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

A cropped version of M81 Bodes galaxy. Messier 81 is a grand design spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

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PaulB @pbaumg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

..and another image taken with the RC 16. M101 Pinwheel Galaxy, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. Distance around 22 mio ly. Diameter 170,000 ly. Captured on March 12, 2026. Exposure time: 2 h 13 min. @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social #astrophotography #deepskyphotography #astronomy

A stareduced astrophotography image of the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), a large face-on spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy features a bright, yellowish central core with prominent, sprawling spiral arms extending outward. These arms are filled with dark dust lanes, glowing reddish HII regions (star-forming areas), and bright blue clusters of young stars. The background is a deep, dark purple-black, peppered with sharp, colorful foreground stars from our own Milky Way. The processing shows smooth transitions and well-controlled noise, highlighting the intricate structural details of the galactic spiral.

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astropageeu.bsky.social @astropageeu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Ein kurzer Blick auf den #Rosettennebel NGC 2244 von gestern Abend. A quick view to the #RosetteNebula NGC 2244 captured yesterday. www.astropage.eu/wp-content/g... #Deepsky #Nebula #Nebel #Astrofotografie #Astrophotography #Astronomie #Astronomy #Astrobild #Astroimage

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Although I've had no luck tonight, Wednesday I managed to capture a certain Jupiter/Castor/Pollux triangle. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Planet Jupiter looking big at lower right. Star Pollux left of centre with blue star Castor above centre. Many other fainter star dots.

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dimkate.bsky.social @dimkate.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Periodic comet Schaumasse, this time with a dedicated astrocamera. The comet features and exteded fainter coma and a rather short dust tail. The comet is located in Serpens Caput and is moving away both from the Sun and the Earth. #cometwatch #astrophotography

A comet with round green coma (up to 9' across) and a short whiteish tail in front of a starry field. Some distant galaxies are also visible at the bottom.

Equipment: GSO N203/800 with TS GPU coma corrector, Prometheus astro TYR mount, Toupket 294C-Pro, SV305c guide camera with 30mm f/4 guidescope, Stellavita astrostation.

83x60s light frames, from eastern Crete (B4.5). Edited with DSS and SIRIL. Star stack and comet stack combined in GIMP. Some final touches with Ps.

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Naztronomy @naztronomy.com · 15/03/2026

You saw the raw stacked version earlier, here is the fully processed version with H-alpha mixed in with RGB of M82, t he Cigar Galaxy with my newest telescope. Review of the telescope is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-YX... #astronomy #astrophotography #space

M82 - the Cigar Galaxy with the Askar 120 APO

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Susan Snow @susansnowy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The #SoulNebula, taken last night with the Dwarf Mini smart telescope 🙂

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Bernd Flachsbart @bflachsbart.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

NGC 2841 - The Tiger’s Eye Galaxy captured from my patio on five nights in February and March 😊🔭 It was shot on the EdgeHD 8 for a total integration time of 40 hours in LRGB and Ha to reveal the star forming regions. #Astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social‬ what do you see?

NGC 2841 is a beautiful unbarred spiral galaxy about 46 million light years away from Earth. It’s located in the constellation of Ursa Major.

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