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🔭 PanSTARRS and Planets
Image Credit & Copyright: Luc Perrot (TWAN)
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Very sharp image of a nodule in the Trifid Nebula showing protuding narrow jets emerging from the rounded tips of the gas clouds.
Zoom in on a clump of a nebula showing a grainy, fuzzy thin line that has a white arrow annotated to it. This is the jet from the protostar. Image is fuzzy taken with my telescope
Ohhhhh ... love doing these.
Left: Hubble Telescope image of a nodule in the Trifid Nebula. That's a thin stellar jet from young stellar object buried in the cloud
Right: same, but from my backyard telescope. Can just see jet!
Original: @esa.int - www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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#astro #astronomy #astrophotography
Livestreaming from my porch
Got a good picture of the waxing crescent moon tonight. #astrophotography
Section of the beautiful Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), April 18th 2026 #astrophotography
NGC2467 Skull and Crossbones Nebula
AstroBin's Image of the Day: "NGC2467 Skull and Crossbones Nebula" by zaki ffcamera
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Got your best shots ready for this year's edition of AstroCamera?
Awesome, submit them by 4 May!
Check out last year’s winning shots 🏅👇
AstroCamera is an #astrophotography competition organised by the Hevelianum science centre (Poland) and supported by ESO.
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Sorry for a (partly) repeat posting but I caught #messier82 the other night with necessary Ha data from my LENH filter, so decided to revisit nearby #messier81 and take some Ha data to reprocess into my earlier image posted last week - well they ARE a matched pair!! #astrophotography 🔭
Markarian’s Chain, 50 million light years away is an alignment of galaxies in the Virgo cluster, which is a cluster of over 1,300 galaxies. Captured using my Apertura CarbonStar 8" Ritchey-Chretien telescope from my backyard. #astrophotography
The crescent moon at sunset. #astronomy #astrophotography
A face on spiral galaxy & massive swirl of stars.
#astrophotography #williamoptics #zwo #skywatcher
Messier 101 The Pinwheel Galaxy, shot on holiday under the welsh dark skies.
Spiral galaxy & star scape criss crossed with starlink satellite trails
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When you turn off sigma rejection for one night
The 8% lit crescent Moon in a blue sky just after sunset on 19 April 2026. Just below the Moon is the Pleiades open cluster. Lower than the pair and just above a rooftop is the bright planet Venus. Shot taken with a Canon 600D and 300mm lens at 0.6s, 75mm fl, f/5.6, ISO-1600.
The 8% lit #Moon last night sitting just above the Pleiades open cluster and bright Venus lower down. Beautiful sight in the early evening 😀 #Astronomy #Astrophotography
Venus and a crescent Moon at twilight with a radio astronomy telescope antenna dish silhouetted against the sky.
A person walks towards a radio astronomy antenna during twilight
The red glow of lights at a star party can be seen with the silhouette of a radio telescope antenna dish against the backdrop of the night sky with a number of stars shining in it
Did someone say "Star Party at the #VLA?" @thenrao.bsky.social #Astrophotography #Venus #Moon #StarRiver #Podcast 🌌📡🔭🦛
After the Dwarf Stellar Studio.
After I have run this through Snapseed, Lightleap and Photoshop Lite. All free mobile apps.
If you're interested, image 1 is what the output looks like straight out of the Dwarf app after its in-house processing has been run. Image 2 is after I have run my own processing. Note, no new or false colours added, just drawn out from the original data. #astronomy #astrophotography
6th Magnitude Comet C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS Blowing Strands and Streamers, 2xPanel April 8 2026
AstroBin's Image of the Day: "6th Magnitude Comet C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS Blowing Strands and Streamers, 2xPanel April 8 2026" by Dan Bartlett
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The Elephant's Trunk Nebula (specifically designated IC 1396A) is a dense pillar of interstellar gas and dust. It is located within the much larger IC 1396 emission nebula complex in the constellation Cepheus, roughly 2,400 light-years away. The trunk itself is about 20 light-years long. The surrounding region spans over 100 light-years in diameter.
The Elephant Trunk Nebula. A bit noisy but not bad for 45 minutes worth before daylight arrived this morning. All that interstellar gas and dust! Captured by the Dwarf3 scope.
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
The Spiral Galaxy M64 in Coma Berenices, commonly referred to as the black eye galaxy. #astronomy #astrophotography
Veil Nebula
Crop of the Eastern Veil
Crop of the Western Veil
At some point I'm just going to have to accept that the full Veil Nebula just doesn't get high enough above the horizon for me to get it before dawn. Happy with the Eastern, but can never get enough data of the Western side so always looks choppy.
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Artemis II Orion Spacecraft on Its Way to The Moon
AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Artemis II Orion Spacecraft on Its Way to The Moon" by George Konkov
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Milky Way from Crux to the Carina nebula. Nikon Z8 at 70mm, 70 mins total exposure time. Taken from Alcohuaz, Chile. 🔭 #astrophotography
A starry sky and the milky way rise over a mountain ridge and lake
The Milky Way including the Cygnus Star Cloud rise over Lake of the Pines about 1:30 AM local time. My attempt to capture Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS failed due to loss of focus. Hopefully I will get one more chance tomorrow morning! #astrophotography
Globular Cluster M3 in the constellation Canes Venatici. #astronomy #astrophotography
M104, the Sombrero Galaxy in Virgo. #astronomy #astrophotography
Merging galaxies NGC-4567 and NGC-4568, imaged from Stony Ridge Observatory on Tuesday night.
🔭 30” f/6, 1 hr integration
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Hastily processed image (3 hours total) of the Carina nebula taken from Alcohuaz, Chile. 🔭 #astrophotography
Bright oval shaped grand design spiral galaxy with arms above and below oval shape.
This is M81 in Ursa Major, captured with a new Spectral Pro hybrid filter that screens out most light pollution. M81 may be responsible for the new star formation in M82, the Cigar Galaxy, that I posted last week. #astrophotography More details in my gallery: app.astrobin.com/i/9g6z4e
Night sky filled with stars above a dark mountain ridge, with a bright comet visible near the upper center-right, its glowing head and faint tail pointing upward. The foreground is silhouetted terrain under a deep blue sky.
Likely birthed in the Oort Cloud hundreds of thousands of years ago, Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) emerges into view. Captured Friday morning at the #edge of dawn. 🥱
#alphabetchallenge #WeekOforOld #astronomy #nature 📷🔭 #comet #NM #NewMexico #publiclands #astrophotography #landscape #BlueSkyArtShow
A star field surrounds a bright comet with a long tail. The green coma of the comet is seen on the lower left, while the light blue ion tail extends to the upper right and shows wavey structure. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
🔭 The Long Wispy Tail of Comet R3 (PanSTARRS)
Image Credit & Copyright: Haythem Hamdi
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