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oregonrandy.bsky.social
Last night was full of technical foibles and follies. 🤪 But considering this was the first telescopic astro session after moving, I'll take it! #Jupiter and its equatorial dark cloud bands.
#Astrophotography #📷 #🔭 #planet #SolarSystem #EastCoastKin #BackyardAstronomy #Astronomy #Stunday
A photo of the gas giant planet Jupiter. Prominently featured are its Northern and Southern equatorial dark cloud bands, contrasting with much lighter colored equator clouds, and lighter areas toward the poles at top and bottom. The planet occupies the center of the image in a circular area that you could cover with your finger. The rest of the image is dark black. I could have waited another hour or more to wait for the Great Red Spot to rotate into view on the face of the planet, but my feet and hands were getting numb from the cold out on this night. 🥶
January 18, 2026 at 11:27 PM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
The Pleiades, from last night (1-16-26).
This is a combination of 11 - 60 second images, so a total of 11 minutes of exposure. The ISO was 200. Processed and edited in Sequator and LRc.
#📷 #Astrophotography #NightSkyPhotography #Pleiades #EastCoastKin #BackYardAstronomy #Astronomy #Night #Sky
A close up photo of a star studded night sky with several prominent bright stars toward the center of the image. This is The Pleiades star cluster. Called "The Seven Sisters", and many other names in different cultures around the world that have seen it through our shared history. Though the whole image contains stars all over, the main stars at center are brightest, and stand out easily. Roughly, seven of them form a small close group that is shaped like a small ladle with s very short handle with two stars at the end of the handle. The opposite side of the ladle cup has two stars at the tip of the cups right hand tip. The Pleiades cluster has far more than just seven stars that astronomers have found are truly associated with the cluster. The total number is likely in excess of 1,000 members. Only a handful are actually visible. The main stars we see in this image are hot young stars that are a characteristic blue color. There is also some faint wispy nebulosity visible. The nebulosity is not part of the cluster, but caused by some interstellar gas in the light path to us. The stars that show the nebulosity the best are the inner, upper right side cup rim star, and the lower left bottom cup base. Longer exposures and filtered light images can capture much more diffuse dust and gas. Other colors that can be seen in stars around the main cluster are reddish and yellow to orange. Between all the stars is deep dark background.
January 18, 2026 at 12:12 AM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
Jupiter in the constellation #Gemini!
Guess which one #Jupiter is!
Stacked images totaling 6 minutes exposure at 250 ISO.
#📷#🔭#Astrophotography #BackyardAstronomy #Stars #NightSky #Pollux #Castor #LookUp
A night sky photo full of stars. The brightest one sits above center left, and is many times brighter than the next brightest. It is not a star, but the gas giant planet Jupiter. At this resolution and field of view, Jupiter's moons are not visible. There is a small star next to Jupiter at about it's 6 o'clock position. The two brightest stars of the constellation Gemini are at top center, and at top center right. The one at top center is Pollux, and the one to the right is Castor. Tracing a line down from them each, roughly parallel to the bottom of the image toward the left, there are two "foot" stars for each twin. The left one, roughly middle lower left center is bluer, and almost directly to the right is a redder one, just right of bottom center. If you can see toward almost the bottom right corner, there is a fuzzy, or blurry patch, which is a distant tight cluster of stars associated with each other. Known to astronomers as M35, or The Shoe-Buckle Cluster, because it is where one of the twins shoes might be imagined. It is almost 3,000 light years away. And right below it is another fuzzy patch, though much dimmer. It is another smaller star cluster (NGC 2158), and it looks smaller and dimmer because it is nearly 12,000 light years away. All the many stars visible in this image are within our Milky Way Galaxy
January 18, 2026 at 1:11 AM
irishlisa.bsky.social
Jupiter, finally not just a dot.

First resolved planetary detail from my backyard.

#Photography #Astrophotography #Jupiter #Nightsky #BackyardAstronomy
Low-resolution backyard photograph of last night's Jupiter against a black sky, showing a small bright disk with faint atmospheric banding.
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 PM
stefankellner.bsky.social
The Sun, Halpha, colorized from 09.06.2024, Berlin, Germany. #astrophoptography #colorized #sun #halpha #lunt
#sonne #backyardastronomy
The Sun, Halpha, Colorized from 09.06.2024
An astrophotograph by Stefan Kellner on AstroBin
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June 9, 2024 at 5:30 PM
goflaherty.bsky.social
M1, the Crab Nebula, approximately 2,000 10 second FITS subs. Stacked in Siril and processed in Graxpert and then Siril again. I think that's it for M1 for a while. On to new targets. #Astrophotography #Astronomy #BackyardAstronomy #Seestar @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
wdefaustenonek.bsky.social
#SatellitesTonight #BackyardAstronomy - If skies are clear enough, the International Space Station will make a short but bright path through the NW skies in the @wdefnews12.bsky.social viewing area Wednesday evening. #KeepLookingUp
#SatellitesTonight #BackyardAstronomy - If skies are clear enough, the International Space Station will make a short but bright path through the NW skies in the @WDEFNews12 viewing area Wednesday evening. #KeepLookingUp
January 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
riggskies.bsky.social


This is the Crab Nebula (M1). Located in the constellation Taurus, this is a supernova remnant at a distance of ~6500 light years from Earth.

#Crab #M1 #nebula #darksky #Taurus #constellation #astrophotography #qhy #backyardastronomy #cosmiclottery #cosmicluminosity #lookup #pleaselookup
December 23, 2024 at 12:53 AM
reram.bsky.social
Finally transported our dobsonian to our new house. Just got a quick sliver from my phone last night, but dang that crater edge is lookin' foooin.
#Moon
#Dobsonian
#CentralWAState
#BackyardAstronomy
September 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
oregonrandy.bsky.social
#moon #mars #occultation #astronomy #astrophotography #backyardastronomy #📷 #clearskies
January 13, 2025 at 5:21 AM
goflaherty.bsky.social
Galaxy M82, imaged from my suburban backyard with an image of the same target from the James Webb Space Telescope for comparison 😁🔭. #space #astroimage #galaxy #astro #astronomy #astrophotography #amateurastronomy #backyardastronomy #seestar #seestars30 #smarttelescope
March 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
wdefnews12.bsky.social
#BackyardAstronomy - Early risers on Tuesday should look to the north between 4:44 & 4:47 AM EDT, the International Space Station will pass fairly low to the north horizon fading just before heading towards bright star #Capella in the NE. #KeepLookingUp
Image 1
June 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
stefankellner.bsky.social
Located about 33,900 light-years away from Earth, M3 is a glittering collection of over half a million stars, bound together by gravity.
#GlobularCluster #M3 #Astrophotography #backyardastronomy #berlin #Astronomy
June 10, 2024 at 9:32 PM
gingerastro.bsky.social
This is 11 hours of Thor’s Helmet taken from my backyard.
#astro #astrophotography #deepsky #deepskyobject #deepskyastrophotography #telescope #backyardastronomy #backyardastrophotography #celestron #edgehd #EdgeHD8 #nebula #ASI2600MMPro #thorshelmet #thorshelmetnebula #ngc2359
November 24, 2024 at 6:31 AM
eequalsmc2.bsky.social
Happy New Year from Melbourne! Celebrating with a pic of Orion from the backyard. #newyears #backyardastronomy
December 31, 2024 at 1:21 PM
cor-ax.bsky.social
#epact : the age of the Moon on December 31st
#xix #19
#astrophotography
#backyardastronomy
#computus
January 1, 2024 at 12:20 AM
goflaherty.bsky.social
M82, the Cigar Galaxy, imaged with my #Seestar S30. Approximately 12 million light years away from my backyard. #astrophotography #amateurastronomy #backyardastronomy #galaxy #space @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
mgerspix.bsky.social
Total Lunar Eclipse, 3/14/25
Yup, looks like all the others, the moon is pretty consistent!
From Savannah, GA

#moon #eclipse #totaleclipse #lunareclipse
#luna #lunarimaging #moonphotos #photography
#astrophotography #astronomy #backyardastronomy
#omsystem #mgerspix
The total lunar eclipse, at totality on 3/14/25. Photographed from Savannah, GA USA. 4 second exposure on a tracking mount
March 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
goflaherty.bsky.social
M1 from my Backgarden. #Seestar #Astrophotography #Astronomy #BackyardAstronomy @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
March 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
gingerastro.bsky.social
The Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) is a reflection nebula where a star illuminates the surrounding gas clouds. Here’s what I can see from my backyard.

#astrophotography #ASI2600MM #backyardastronomy #celestron #edgehd #nebula #ngc7023 #c4 #IrisNebula #reflectionnebula
December 26, 2024 at 2:54 AM
wdefaustenonek.bsky.social
#KeepLookingUp -- #FullMoon / #FullWolfMoon rising with bright planet #Mars in close view early Monday evening over downtown #ChattanoogaTN. #BackyardAstronomy
#KeepLookingUp -- #FullMoon / #FullWolfMoon rising with bright planet #Mars in close view early Monday evening over downtown #ChattanoogaTN. #BackyardAstronomy
January 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
thesciencemom.bsky.social
Tonight I saw Mercury for the first time! It will be visible each evening this week. Look for it after sunset (below Venus).

Also went stargazing at Ward lake.

These moments were good medicine for my soul today.🥰

#AlaskaSky #BackyardAstronomy
Venus is a bright dot at the top of this photo. Mountains at the bottom form a dark horizon. Grey clouds are visible just above the mountains. The planet Mercury looks like a faint star shining thru the top of the clouds. Stars are visible both in the night sky and reflected in the lake. Mountains and trees along the horizon are slightly obscured by mist.
March 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM