r/Astronomy

Shot with Nikon Z8 through Takahashi TSA-120 with Takahashi 1.5x Extender. 1000 stacked frames, 40 megapixels. Stacked in AutoStakkert 3, sharpened in Registax 6 and processed in Photoshop.

I photographed Artemis 2, while it is traveling towards the Moon, at a distance of 230,000 km from Earth. I added together 60 30 second photos, taken with a Canon 6d full spectrum and a 200/1000 telescope. The trail of Artemis seems to curve, I don't know why. In single photos you can see the brightness change in a few dozen seconds

You were all so supportive of my last solar video! Thank you! For my next trick I wanted to show the size of these solar features next to an approximate size of earth.

Just curious if someone can work out what this bright speck is in Reid Wiseman's recent shot of Earth from the window of Orion? I would assume it's either Jupiter or Sirius but I'm struggling to actually identify it based on the stars in the background.

Here's a link to the full res image if anyone needs it: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/art002e000192.jpg

this post is ofc a little different from most object identification posts... I really hope it doesn't break any rules.

I revisited and reprocessed one of my attempts from last year as practice before the Milky Way season, and this is the result.

Sky:

Shot on Nikon Z6 + Tamron 15–30mm f/2.8

36 × 15s exposures = 540s (9 minutes total)

ISO 2500, f/2.8

(Captured on April 27, 2025)

Foreground:

Shot on Nikon D810 + Nikon 28mm f/1.8G

Captured in April 2024

(Exact settings unknown)

I aligned and composited the sky to match the original foreground perspective as accurately as possible.

Over the last month I’ve been shooting footage of the sun using my Heliostar 76 telescope and Apollo 428m Max Camera. I hope you like the results. This is roughly 30 hours of footage. I did my best to calculate the approximate size of earth for each clip.

Last night, I photographed the Artemis 2 spacecraft with my 8" telescope from my backyard. The spacecraft has a magnitude of about +13, and appears as a faint star moving relative to the fixed stars.

I have Sky-Watcher Dobson 200p Classic and I used PIPP, AutoStakkert and Lightroom.

I think it's good for the first photo.

In the center of the image, you can see Caldwell 25 or NGC 2419, also known as the "Intergalactic Wanderer," a globular cluster in the constellation Lynx, located approximately 270,000 light-years from Earth. It lies far beyond our Milky Way galaxy but is gravitationally bound to it and orbits our galaxy. The cluster is massive and luminous, containing hundreds of thousands of stars tightly bound by gravity. Image taken with my Seestar S50 telescope.

Taken with my mobile on 25th Dec 2025. Away from City lights on a campfire night. Swipe left for

the stars marked assisted with Gemini AI.

Picture taken with 4 mins time lapse and processed with mobile astro presets. I am not a pro photographer. so it was cool to get this take.

Device: Google Pixel 9a

*SOLVED* Thank you!

Saw this on the way back at around 2 am (in Florida) on my way home from seeing the Super Mario Galaxy movie (ironic I know). It doesn’t seem like space junk or a shooting star. It eventually tapered off and fully disappeared after a good 45 seconds and was moving at a constant speed. I know stuff about space but not as much so I’d love to know! TIA!

feel free to take a look, thought this would be of interest to many in here!

https://rocketmapper.com/satellites

Not sure if anyone else caught this but I had this bright object in the sky which came up on my security cam. It had a long trail, then widened out and then disappeared. Maybe the Easter Comet?

clicked with my vivo iqoo 9se phone at 32second long exposure and edited in Lightroom with the following settings

exposure: -5

contrast: max

highlights: max

shadows: max

whites: -100

blacks: max

texture: max

clarity: max

dehaze: max