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Rob Tilsley

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Astrophotography shenanigans.

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Jenny Winder she/her @ladyastrojenny.bsky.social · 4h
Last night’s Wizard Nebula from Yorkshire via our Seestar S50
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Mandy Daniels @mandydaniels.bsky.social · 3h
#Waning #Gibbous #Moon Date: 2026 10 01 Time: 23:34:08 UTC Altitude: 30° 43' Distance: 366 020 km Phase: 67% Nikon Z8 Vixen A105M IR/UV filter Exposure: f/9.5, 1/40s, ISO-64 Focal Length: 1000 mm #astronomy #astrophotography
Waning gibbous Moon in a black sky, showing a lot of craters and other detail, particularly near the terminator.
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 3h
A few hours last night to capture The Triangulum Galaxy, also catalogued as Messier 33 (M33). A stunning face-on spiral galaxy located approximately 2.73 to 3 million light-years from Earth. #astronomy #astrophotography
The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, trailing only behind the massive Andromeda Galaxy and our own Milky Way.
It is roughly 60,000 light-years in diameter (about 60% the width of the Milky Way), the galaxy contains an estimated 40 billion stars.
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Mandy Daniels @mandydaniels.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Waning #Gibbous #Moon Date: 2026 09 30 Time: 19:59:34 UTC Altitude: 08° 13' Distance: 368 724 km Phase: 79% Nikon Z8 Nikon 300mm f/4 prime lens Nikon 2x teleconverter Exposure: f/8, 1/200s, ISO-400 Focal Length: 600 mm #astronomy #astrophotography
Waning gibbous Moon in a dark sky, showing detail in craters near the terminator.
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Chris Becke (aka BeckePhysics) @chrisbecke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The just-past-full moon setting behind the neighbor’s house. Dwarf Mini time lapse
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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Last night's gorgeous #HarvestMoon, photographed from Kendal using my Seestar S50 (mosaic of two images, cropped and processed)...
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Lt Nono @ltno2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Full #Moon & #astrophotography don't make a good mix, except on star clusters or emission nebulae...so here goes for the Persei double cluster (NGC884 & NGC869) and the Horse Head #nebula (IC434) in H-alpha. Images shot yesterday. Aren't those cute 😊? What do you see @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social ?
Picture of the Persei double star cluster shot from a backyard. The clusters form two lumps of stars around the center of the image.A black and white picture of Horse Head nebula (IC434) shot in H-alpha with the Flame nebula to the side of the picture. Wisps of matter are leaving the hydrogen region and leaving kind of darker streaks on the background.A black and white picture of Horse Head nebula (IC434) shot in H-alpha with the Flame nebula to the side of the picture. Wisps of matter are leaving the hydrogen region and leaving kind of darker streaks on the background. This image is a zoomed in version of a larger field of view  to put the emphasis on the shape of the Horse Head.
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Jamie ready for 🍁🍂🎃 🚜🌗 🔭 @graffias79.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tonight's just-barely-past-full moon casting a moondog onto some high clouds. You can see Saturn Hanging out to the lower left of the moon.
Moondog cast into some high clouds partially covering the full moon. Saturn appears as a dot to the lower left of the moon.
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Jamie ready for 🍁🍂🎃 🚜🌗 🔭 @graffias79.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here is tonight's moon through a telescope.
Full moon through a telescope
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Panagiotis Xipteras @xipteras.com · 27/09/2026
Harvest Moon 🌕 #lunarphotography #fullmoon 26.9.2026
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Mandy Daniels @mandydaniels.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#Waxing #Gibbous #Moon Date: 2026 09 23 Time: 21:25:48 UTC Altitude: 22° 59' Distance: 389 175 km Phase: 91% Nikon Z8 iOptron Rumak 150 Exposure: f/12, 1/50s, ISO-200 Focal Length: 1800 mm #astronomy #astrophotography
Waxing gibbous Moon in a black sky, showing a lot of detail in craters along the terminator. Rays can be seen emanating from prominent craters.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/09/2026
Excited to reflect, absorb, and emit light EXTRA WELL today ✨💃⚡️ #BiVisibilityDay
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Naochan🌝Suzuki @naochansuzuki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
十日余の月 お久しぶり過ぎます。やっと晴れました。 #月 #moon #十日余の月 #天体写真 #moonphotography
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Emilio Monelli @monel76.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Vi do il buon pomeriggio con un Saturno brutto, meglio che torno al cielo profondo 😂
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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Callisto and Voyager taking over this planter! #sciart
Partially painted hanging planter featuring Jupiter's moon Callisto Partially painted hanging planter featuring Jupiter's moon Callisto now with Voyager to the left
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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s international observe the Moon day. If your skies are clear, the one day past first quarter Moon will be great viewing. Images taken here last night with a little 50mm F10.8 refractor and an iPhone 15 Pro handheld #Moon #astronomy #astrophotography
First quarter Moon, showing mountains and epic craters along the terminator.First quarter Moon, showing mountains and epic craters along the terminator.First quarter Moon, showing mountains and epic craters along the terminator.
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Lt Nono @ltno2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
36h team effort on #NGC7217 and a HII region not usually photographed (but it is in the Finkbeiner Survey of H-alpha galactic emissions though - much more coarse though). #astrophotography is full of surprises 😇 What do you see @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social ? www.astrobin.com/l4vyua/
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A new look at NGC7217 and its surrounding HII neighbor - AstroBin
NGC 7217 imaged with Sky-Watcher Quattro 200P, TS-Optics 250mm/10" ONTC f/4 Newtonian (carbon tube), 36h 12m of total integration, by AFL, FranckIM06, Vlaams59 on AstroBin.
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Marwella Zhang @marwellaspaceart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Done my part tonight on Observe the Moon night. The 57% illuminated waxing moon at 9.12 PM (UTC 2.12 PM) on September 19, 2026.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The big, beautiful face-on spiral galaxy M74 in the constellation Pisces. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Mary McIntyre @marymcintyreastro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Last night I was imaging #Saturn with our #WilliamOptics 70mm refractor, #ZWO #ASI120MC camera and #Televue #Powermate 5x. Refractors can be so versatile when you put decent barlows on them! Best 50% of a 1,000 frame video. #Oxfordshire, UK
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Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
M45, the Pleiades. I usually like to take this at a shorter focal length so that I can frame all of it. Right now I'm trying to stick with the same equipment from night to night. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🔊Calling my #astrophotography friends. Look see! An exciting new competition from @royalastrosoc.bsky.social sponsored by First Light Optics. The judging panel will be in for an absolute treat, based on all the amazing images you already post on my timeline. 🔭 Sign-up ✍️: www.rastrophoto.ras.ac.uk
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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
POV looking West out my front door at the setting crescent moon...
A setting crescent moon under the eaves of our garage with some trees to the left
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Chris Lee @cpl43uk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Finally had a chance to seek out #supernova #SN2026aaiv in #Caldwell30 #NGC7331 (a galaxy that had another one of these last year!) and the #Nova in Sagitta, #V488 - now fading back to its original 20th mag - around 10th at the moment from a high of 7. #astrophotography 🔭 #eaa #space
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The 13yo just came home from his paper-round with this! I think I might have finally impressed him 👌 Vogue next? 🤣 👩‍🔬
Photo of the Scotsman newspaper.  On the front cover of the magazine section it says "A star is born, make space for Astronomer Royal Catherine Heymans", and Catherine is vaguely smiling infront of a massive supercomputer of wires!
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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 11/09/2026
my tiny painting of Uranus 🫪
Clay disk painted like the planet Uranus
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Happy publication day morning to me!! Dear friend @chrislintott.bsky.social said on record that it was "Truly unique! Sparkling with charm and interest & uncompromisingly clear". In person he said "I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but it was surprisingly good" 🥳 Major compliment! 🤗🧪
"Sparkling with charm and interest". 
Chris Lintott present of The Sky at Night
Catherine's book is below it, looking dark and moody, but with peachy-pink tones.
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Dan Burns @the-physics-well.net · 08/09/2026
Sn2026aaiv shines just to the right of the core of NGC 7331. As of 9/8/26 this Type 1a supernova is increasing in brightness. I estimate it was magnitude 14 this morning. NGC 7331 is 44 million light years away. The galaxies below it are almost 10x further away. Details in ALT. #astrophotography
A spiral galaxy is tilted toward us showing its blue spiral arms and yellow center with some pink emission nebula visible. There is a bright dot in the core that is an exploded star. Then field is peppered with distant galaxies and stars in our own galaxy. The image was created using the best 303 out of 322 90 second exposures taken with a 8" Meade SCT and ZWO ASI2600MC color camera. Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, Starnet++, and Photoshop.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is a cropped version of the NGC 7331 image, just barely showing the supernova. At this focal length, it's pretty faint. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sunday morning Moon! Brilliant blue sky and the 27% waning crescent is standing tall up there! #astronomy #astrophotography
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Bernd Flachsbart @bflachsbart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
IC 5076 captured from my patio on four nights in August 😊🔭 This was shot on the EdgeHD 8 for a total integration time of about 24 hours in mono using a QHY294M cam and combining LRGB and Ha narrowband data to enhance the background. #Astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social‬ what do you see?
IC 5076 is a beautiful blueish reflection nebula which is illuminated by the hot blue supergiant star V2140 Cygni. It’s located in the constellation of Cygnus at an estimated distance of about 5,700 light years away from Earth.
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Thomas Hanrath @astrocamp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sharpless 142, the Wizard Nebula, is an emission nebula in Cepheus at ~11,400 light-years distance. This HII region hosts the open cluster NGC 7380, ionized by hot young stars.… astrocamp.eu/en/sharpless-142-wizar… #astrophotography #astronomy #nature
Wizard Nebula (Sharpless 142), Emission Nebula, Astrophotography
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Keighley Rockcliffe @kerockcliffe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Back to Bluesky to share that I am a new editor for Astronomy Picture of the Day and we are moving to science.nasa.gov/apod! Very excited to share cool astro images with everyone 🌌🔭
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APOD - NASA Science
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Mandy Daniels @mandydaniels.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#Waxing #Gibbous #Moon Date: 2026 09 03 Time: 03:44:34 UTC Altitude: 58° 31' Distance: 367 082 km Phase: 63% Nikon Z8 Vixen A105M Exposure: f/9.5, 1/60s, ISO-100 Focal Length: 1000 mm #astronomy #astrophotography
The waning gibbous Moon in a black sky, approaching last quarter. A lot of detail is visible in craters and rilles along the terminator.
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Dr. Ryan French @ryanjfrench.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
London folks - the launch event for my next book (more on that to come soon) is coming up this Wednesday 2nd Sept (6:30pm) at the National Maritime Museum! It would be great to see some of you there.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
BlueSky! I dusted off my rusty old html coding skills..... 🤓 The UK "tour" starts in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Dumfries and Galloway next week for the #Kirkcudbright Fringe! If you're in the area, do come along! 🗓️: www.roe.ac.uk/~heymans/H2D...
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How to Design a Universe: Events
Join Catherine Heymans, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, at events across the UK celebrating her new book, How to Design a Universe: The Science of Real and Virtual Worlds.
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Susan Snow @susansnowy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I can't believe I was moaning about the clouds at the time 😁 #eclipse
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Chris Becke (aka BeckePhysics) @chrisbecke.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Two weeks Two continents Two eclipses
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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Whaaat?? Just in time for peak eclipse, most of the thick clouds parted leaving a bit of haze. Just when I was giving up. A fair view from San Diego county California #Moon #eclipse
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Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The moon at about 97% eclipsed last night. I'll probably have more images, but I'm still going through them. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Astonishing.
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Christian Fröschlin @chrfrde.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I stayed up for the #lunareclipse despite cloud cover and the sky did in fact clear up during the partial phase! 25 x 2 sec RGB in 300 mm lens at f/4. #astrophotography
Full lunar disk against black background. Most of the Moon appears red and evenly illuminated showing albedo features like mare and rays. To the right a small bright section of the Moon is overexposed and fully white. The separating line is the edge of Earth's shadow and thus part of a larger circle. This shape is different from a crescent phase (as always with lunar eclipses the Moon is actually in a full moon phase).
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Dave @astronomydave.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Maximum eclipse this evening. As long as compression doesn't squash them out of existence, at least three stars are visible in this image. The Moon did not look quite this red, but I boosted the brightness slightly so the southern portion could be seen better in the image.
A lunar eclipse showing the full Moon nearly in red, but the very top portion still in white where the Earth's shadow did not cover the lunar surface.
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The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Last night's lunar eclipse. ------------------ The sky 🌍🌒 Us looking up 🤩 #astrophotography #astronomy #cosmonuts
The moon with the left side in the earth's shadowThe moon more than half obscured on the left side by the earth's shadowThe moon with the left side in the earth's shadow to almost complete coverage so the colour has turned red
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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Maximum lunar eclipse from Ottawa, Canada tonight as seen through my 8” telescope. 🌕 🔭 📱 #eclipse
Photo of the orangish moon during tonight’s lunar eclipse. 5-second exposure taken with an iPhone 17 Pro Max on night mode attached to an 8” telescope.
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A quick edit of tonight's beautiful lunar #eclipse.
A close-up photo of the full Moon during a 96% lunar eclipse. The top of the Moon is bright white, but most of the rest is orange to red in color.
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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 28/08/2026
Maximum lunar eclipse of 93% at 05:12 BST here in Herne Bay
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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The clouds cleared just long enough to get a shot of tonight's lunar eclipse :-) flic.kr/p/2sxJtCP
The Moon in partial eclipse.
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In case you missed it, highlights from this morning's Partial Lunar Eclipse. #astronomy #astrophotography
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Ryan Kinnett @rkinnett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Seen enough #LunarEclipse shots yet? Imaged near Los Angeles, 8/27/26. #Astrophotography 🔭
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