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This is another picture I took in my last trip, but I had not published until now because I've spent the last couple of weeks processing it to get it to a point I was somewhat happy with.
Even when it's not perfect this is my best capture of the Orion and Running Man Nebulae so far, and while there's room for improvement, there's many things I love about it. #astrophotography
The Great Orion Nebula painted in soft reddish and purple tones opens like a flame to the right of the picture, over a black starry background with brownish dust clouds. On its left, a small irregular opening amidst the clouds reveals a deep dark red region with blue reflections around it known as the running man.
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Hoags Object: A Strange Ring Galaxy
Credits: R. Lucas, STScI, AURA, Hubble Heritage Team, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography
Hoags Object: A Strange Ring Galaxy
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As the NASA Artemis missions get humans closer to putting boots back on the moon, I’m looking back at over a year of my own moon shots, from my first lousy pixelated photo to more decent later attempts. The story of each picture is in the alt text. I’m heartened by how much I’ve improved, and excited to learn so much more and hopefully get even better.

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The supermoon of October 17, 2024. This was my first serious attempt to take a photo of the moon with its crater details. It had never really occurred to me before that I could do such a thing without sophisticated or expensive gear, but my cousin, who was with me at the time, suggested downloading the Black Magic Cam app onto my iPhone and trying it that way — capturing the moon on video and extracting a still image from that. I really had no idea what I was doing, and this is the extremely mediocre pixelated result. Still, it awakened my interest in moon photography and I’ve been chasing images of Luna ever since.
The waxing gibbous moon in the early afternoon of January 10, 2025. Only a few days earlier, I remembered an old Celestron FirstScope that had been stashed away in our closet — just a small beginner’s telescope, a tabletop reflector with a 76mm (3-inch) aperture — and wondered if I could just hold my phone up to the eyepiece and take pictures that way. This was one of my halfway decent attempts, done with a handheld phone, before I realized I could buy an adapter to attach the phone more securely to the scope. But by then I also realized that if I truly wanted to take better moon photos, I’d have to invest in some better gear…
March 11, 2025. A waxing gibbous moon in the nighttime sky. This shot is from the second time I took my NEW telescope out for a spin: a tripod-mounted Celestron reflector telescope with a 130mm (5.12-inch) aperture, the one I regularly use to this day. Perhaps I could have gone bigger, but this scope is the largest I think our small Brooklyn apartment can comfortably accommodate. I’m still really happy with the views it gives me — not just of Luna but of the sun and even Jupiter and its moons as well. That’s not to say there wasn’t an even bigger telescope in my future…
The waning gibbous moon of September 9, 2025, just a little over a day past full, in Idaho’s clear skies. This was shot with my largest telescope yet: a Celestron reflector with a 203mm (8-inch) aperture, mounted on a rotating Dobsonian base, which I had delivered to my in-laws’ home in Idaho to be used and permanently stored there (I’m very grateful to them for indulging me). My clearest and sharpest moon photo to date. I can’t wait to return there to take more shots — hopefully when Luna is in her other phases, with her craters in more dramatic shadow — and to see what else I can capture, away from the light-polluted skies of New York. The adventure continues.
#photography #Moon #astrophotography

Thanks to a heads-up post from @appagalcrochet, I hauled out my telescope this morning to check out newly-formed sunspot region 4366 — an area ten times wider than the Earth! It’s been emitting powerful X-class solar flares, which reportedly triggered radio blackouts across the South Pacific. The fact that life is able to exist at all on our tiny orb amid such unimaginably powerful cosmic forces continues to amaze me.

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Photo of the sun taken on Feb 2, 2026 at 11:16am. The sun appears as a large orange ball surrounded by a reddish glow softening into black at the edges of the frame. Several sunspots pepper the sun’s western side, particularly a row of very dark spots at the upper left quadrant. Taken with an iPhone 15 attached to a 130mm reflector telescope with a solar filter.
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The #sun this afternoon ☀️

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A bright, reddish-orange sun with small dark spots on its surface, set against a pitch-black background.
A large, bright orange sun with dark spots on its surface, set against a black background.
Image of the Sun showing sunspots and solar activity against a black background.
A bright, pinkish-orange sun with some dark sunspots against a black sky.
#Space #astrophotography #sun #star

Green Beam
19.01.2026, 22:54 MEZ/CET, bei/near Leipzig
Blick Richtung Osten / View towards the east

#NikonD7200 | 10mm | f/2,8 | 8 Sek. | ISO 640 | 01/2026
#AuroraBorealis #AuroraPhotography #astrophotography #Polarlichter #Nordlichter #Astrofotografie #Aurora #NorthernLights #alttext

DE: Spätabendlicher Blick auf ein paar Bäume. Am linken Bildrand versammeln sich nicht nur einzelne Häuser sondern es tänzeln auch rote und grüne Polarlichter am Himmel. Ein grüner Polarlicht-Streifen scheint das Bild das Bild regelrecht in zwei Teile zu spalten und hebt hervor, dass auf der rechten Seite keine Häuser, sondern weitere Bäume stehen. EN: Late evening view of a few trees. Not only are there a few houses gathered at the left edge of the picture, but red and green auroras are also dancing in the sky. A green aurora strip seems to split the picture into two parts, emphasising that there are no houses on the right side, but more trees.
#astrophotography #AltText #northernlights #aurora #auroraborealis #polarlichter #nordlichter #astrofotografie #auroraphotography #NikonD7200

Pilot captures spectacular pics of Northern Lights auroras at 40,000 feet

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Was für zwei Nächte. Hier noch zwei weitere Bilder von dem Naturschauspiel.

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#polarlicht
#aurora
#elbe
#elbtalaue
#nacht
#winter
#landscape
#landschaft

Dieses beeindruckende Foto zeigt ein faszinierendes Nordlicht (Aurora Borealis) über einer nächtlichen Flusslandschaft. Hier sind die zentralen Merkmale der Szene: Der Himmel: Er wird von leuchtenden grünen und violetten Farbschleiern dominiert, die sich über den gesamten Horizont erstrecken. Das Grün ist im unteren Bereich besonders intensiv, während der obere Teil in ein tiefes Violett übergeht, gespickt mit unzähligen hellen Sternen. Das Wasser: Ein ruhiger Fluss oder See im Vordergrund wirkt wie ein Spiegel. Die grünen und rosa Töne der Polarlichter sowie das Sternenlicht reflektieren sich deutlich auf der Wasseroberfläche. Die Uferlandschaft: Am linken Ufer steht eine Gruppe markanter, kahler Bäume, die sich dunkel gegen den hellen Himmel abheben. Das Ufer selbst wirkt frostig oder leicht verschneit. Die Atmosphäre: Die Szene strahlt eine tiefe Ruhe, Kälte und die magische Stille einer klaren Polarnacht aus.
Dieses Bild zeigt eine beeindruckende nächtliche Landschaft mit einem leuchtenden Polarlicht (Aurora Borealis). Hier sind die wichtigsten Details der Szene: Himmelsphänomen: Der Nachthimmel ist von einem intensiven Farbspiel aus leuchtendem Grün und tiefem Violett erfüllt. Das grüne Licht bildet ein horizontales Band knapp über dem Horizont, während sich darüber ein rötlich-violetter Schleier ausbreitet. Der gesamte Himmel ist zudem mit unzähligen, klar erkennbaren Sternen übersät. Vordergrund und Natur: Im Zentrum steht ein großer, kahler Baum, dessen filigrane Äste sich deutlich gegen das bunte Himmelslicht abheben. Er wird von weiteren, kleineren Bäumen flankiert. Die Szenerie befindet sich an einem Ufer, wobei das Wasser eines ruhigen Flusses oder Sees im Hintergrund die Farben des Polarlichts sanft widerspiegelt. Stimmung: Die Aufnahme fängt eine friedliche, magische Atmosphäre ein, die typisch für klare Polarnächte ist. Wusstest du, dass die verschiedenen Farben durch Kollisionen mit unterschiedlichen Gasen entstehen? Grünes Licht wird meist durch Sauerstoff in etwa 100 km Höhe verursacht, während Violett und Blau oft auf Stickstoff zurückzuführen sind.
#landscape #astrophotography #winter #aurora #landschaft #nacht #polarlicht #Elbe #Elbtalaue

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Very strong auroras tonight, clearly visible with naked eye, close to Riga, Latvia
#astronomy #astrophotography #aurora
Pink aurora
Aurora with red and green tint
Red aurora
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Now where did I leave my car?
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Graffiti on car stuck in the ground under the stars
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