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This object is one of the three BlackGEM telescopes hosted at our La Silla Observatory. Its mission? To help detectors such as LIGO and Virgo to pinpoint powerful gravitational-wave events, like neutron star and black hole mergers, by detecting the visible afterglow that some of these events leave behind. Learn more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2642a/ 📷 J. Rodrigues/ESO #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #astrophotography

1/ This is the longest exposure I've ever taken: 8 months long! It shows the Sun's path on the sky between Apr 17 - Dec 11 2018, as seen from ESO's Paranal Observatory in #Chile. This is part of a collaboration with Diego López Calvín, an expert in solarigraphy: https://solarigrafia.com Diego sent me some of his hand-made #pinhole cameras, which I placed all over Paranal. So what do we see here? See thread below 👇 #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #sun #photography

https://www.ufofeed.com/301643/lion-nebula-sh2-132-5/ Lion Nebula SH2-132 #Astronomy #Astrophotography

The gleaming Trifid and Lagoon nebulae can be seen between our New Technology Telescope (left) and the ESO 3.6-meter telescope (right) at La Silla. Their red colour comes from hydrogen atoms ionised by young stars in these clouds. The Trifid nebula also shows a blue tint caused by dust reflecting the light of some of these stars. Discover more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2639a/ 📷 J. Rodrigues/ESO #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #astrophotography #space #science

Tonight’s Harvest Moon dialed in at 1280mm. 🌕 1/500s | f/9 | ISO 500 #HarvestMoon #Astrophotography #NightSky #Moon #Photography #Photos

Too much thin cloud with too much Moon on targets that were too faint. No overnight imaging successes. The framing on the SMC is better than the previous effort, though. Mind you, I am vaguely impressed that I got any data on NGC 6820 at all. It only rises to about 26 degrees and would be barely above the trees. #astrophotography #space #seestar

Over the weekend I got some good data on the Horsehead Nebula so now I have decent images of both of the big showy nebulae in the constellation of Orion. All data taken with my Seestar S30 Pro from my Bortle 7 backyard in Sydney, and processed in Siril with RC Astro, GraXpert and VeraLux scripts. Both images have about 4 1/2 hours of exposure time in them and I feel like they could both do with some more, but they'll do for now. Maybe I'll do a big mosaic covering both nebulae a bit later in the year when I can start imaging them before 2 am. #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #VeraLux #GraXpert #SmartTelescope

Huh, I thought I'd already done about as good a job on the Helix Nebula as I was going to be able to do with the Thirty Millimeter Telescope, but increasing the total exposure time from 11 to almost 20 hours, doing a 1.5× drizzle upsample, and refraining from pushing the brightness so hard have together brought rewards. Maybe I should keep going on this even longer. #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #VeraLux #SmartTelescope

Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social We had clear skies here in Oregon last night, so I was able to participate in International Observe the Moon night, using two telescopes. The first two images were with a 50mm aperture F10.8 refractor, the second with a 130mm F5 reflecting telescope #astronomy #astrophotography #Moon

Time to give the pencil pines a haircut, this is not acceptable behaviour on my NGC7331 / SN2026aaiv imaging run. #astrophotography #space #fail #astronomy

I am very fortunate ... during the summer I get to camp in a beautiful and quiet park full of trees and nature. However the trees can be a challenge for #astronomy / #astrophotography. Here I've made the most of a gap in the trees. I believe the small red patch at the bottom is the Lagoon Nebula. Canon R (modified) Sigma 24mm lens ISO 6400 f2.2 20sec #Darktable #PixInsight #nlskies #astrophotography #nlastro

So happy to have captured this — my best astro photo to date. This is, of course, the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor at a stone’s throw of 2.5 million light years away. You can also see M110 and M32, its two brightest satellite galaxies (out of a whopping 35 dwarf galaxies orbiting around it). Shot with a Dwarf 3 telescope under a starry Idaho night sky, which was stunning even with the naked eye. #photography #astronomy #astrophotography #galaxy #andromeda #dwarf3

Caldwell 4 – the Iris Nebula in Cepheus. This reflection nebula sits about 1,120 light-years away, where a bright central star illuminates surrounding interstellar dust in delicate blue petals. It reaches culmination at astronomical midnight and is best observed in early August. https://astrocamp.eu/en/caldwell-4-iris-nebula/ #astrophotography #astronomy #nature #ReflectionNebula

How I Timelapsed the Solar Eclipse (and Everything I Learned Not To Do) https://petapixel.com/2026/08/31/how-i-timelapsed-the-solar-eclipse-and-everything-i-learned-not-to-do/ #Photography #Astrophotography #Tutorial

Goodnight, moon. #lunarEclipse #eclipse #astrophotography #astronomy #dlws

Hi folks, as promised, here's one of my first attempts at the Mosaic stacking using the dwarf 3 telescope. I'm not entirely happy with the way that it has turned out, but as a learning process and to give you a look at how things are going I thought I would let you have a look. I think this could use some reprocessing and I'd like to tinker with it a bit more. Maybe it's one to get some other of my mates with Dwarf3 to do a star party collab with. But as it is - not unattractive and gives me a feel for how it works. So what we're looking at here is a good wide view at least in terms of how the dwarf 3 does it of the Rho Ophiuchi neighborhood and the nebulas hanging around there. #Astrophotography #BackyardAstrophotography #SouthernHemisphereAstronomy #SmartTelescope #Dwarf3 #Nebula #Astrodon

Got down to some eclipse photo processing today. This is an image of the chromosphere, where the sun’s inner atmosphere just peeks out from the moon. #eclipse #iceland #astrophotography

By the way, this is how hopeless things were looking about 15 minutes before totality. 😅 #eclipse #iceland #astrophotography

#SilentSunday #NightSky #Astrophotography #iPhonePhotography

The solar eclipse of August 12, 2026, from Lausanne, Switzerland. ☀️🌑 The eclipse reached 91%, and I captured it from the beginning to maximum, just before the Sun disappeared behind the mountains. This time-lapse is made from 144 × 30-second videos, each stacked and processed individually. Lunt 60mm + ZWO ASI678MM. 420mm, f7, 144 × 990 frames (142,560 frames total). #solareclipse #eclipse #solarastronomy #astrophotography #astronomy #telescope #space #sun