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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 4h

Little time-lapse from last night. I don't know what they were doing on that field in the distance, whatever it was, it was loud!

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you, likewise! Have to admit that space week went over my head, I had no idea it was happening

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Chris Becke (aka BeckePhysics) @chrisbecke.bsky.social · 14h

Jupiter is about to go behind the moon. And I’m watching.

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 13h

This morning's pre dawn waning crescent Moon - just 22% full! #astronomy #astrophotography

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks! Glad to hear that. My intention it to get a full orbit’s worth

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Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

First go at processing last night's Saturn data. 8 x 3min videos, stacked in Autostakkert, derotated in Winjupos and processed in Astrosurface. 🔭

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nice work! Isn’t that upside down though?? 🤪

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Chris Lee @cpl43uk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good to be back looking at planets after a break - #Saturn is nicely placed around midnight and its rings are beginning to open out once more. #EAA #astronomy #planets #astrophotography

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Waning Crescent Moon. 0429UT 4 October 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour #Moon #Lunar

The Moon barely a crescent on a dark background.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They're all taken near Saturn's opposition, so roughly a year between them, but it's a year and a bit because opposition is later every year

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't know about any precessions, what I do know is that Saturn's axis is tilted, much like Earth's, so what's happening is that we see the rings edge on during Saturn's equinox, and then we see one pole or the other at the corresponding solstice

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

😆. That's inevitably be the way for me too, still not wearing glasses just yet, just a matter of time now though surely. I have to do that thing where I move what I'm reading further away 😂

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Update to my Saturns. This goes: 2015, 2016, then annually from 2020 onwards.

9 telescopic closeups of Saturn presenting in a horizontal row, oldest captures on the left with poorer technique and equipment going through to run of clearer images. The ring tilt can be seen going from open to closed, and now opening in the other direction.

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I really wish I was!! Although if I'd only got this with Hubble that would be bad 😂

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's a lot of data! Twice what I collected

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) with Galaxy M110. 3 October 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

The Andromeda galaxy at centre with galaxy M110 above and many faint star dots.

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Jenny Winder she/her @ladyastrojenny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last night’s Wizard Nebula from Yorkshire via our Seestar S50

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Mandy Daniels @mandydaniels.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#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 · 02/10/2026

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.

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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.

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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.

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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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