Waning crescent 19.3% at 5.39 AM (UTC+7) on August 9, 2026.
Waning Crescent Moon and the Pleiades from this morning. 7 August 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour #Moon
Collinder 399, an asterism in the constellation Vulpecula, more commonly known as the Coathanger. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
I'm dazzled by the photon collecting power of an f/4 Newtonian scope with a 200mm mirror...this is just one night of #astrophotography 🔭📷 subs for the Dark Shark nebula (about 5 1/2 hours of LRGB data shot this past night from my backyard) 🦈. What do you see @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social ?
My latest Saturn image from yesterday morning. The seeing forecast on Metoblue was too good to sleep in! It paid off as this image shows more detail than my other recent Saturn image posts. Details in ALT. #astrophotography www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/o...
Another all blue morning sky except for the Moon! 36.5% waning crescent #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com
A Sunado? No, it's just a swirling tower of plasma interacting with the Sun's magnetic field and gravity. 3-hour time-lapse taken yesterday morning. Lunt 50mm double stack, ZWO ASI178MM, each frame made from 15s video taken at 15 s intervals. Thanks Autostakkert and ImPPG! #astrophotography
☀️ Aug 5, 2026: the Sun is still in Cancer, five days short of Leo. Five numbered regions today, AR4498 the largest, AR4502 growing and firing a C1.7 this morning. 📷 A7RV, 70-200mm f/4 + 2x TC, handheld, Baader AstroSolar filter. ⛔️ Sun only with a certified solar filter. #solarphotography
I continue to take advantage of the clear skies, steady air, and good placement to image Saturn in the early morning. There is a hint of structure in the rings interior to the Cassini division in this image from yesterday morning. Details in ALT. #astrophotography
My weather station recorded no rain at all for 36 consecutive days. Finally got some rain today, 1.2mm
The Andromeda Galaxy from last night. 30 July 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
the impossible has happened. apod has a new website. science.nasa.gov/apod/
APOD - NASA Science
science.nasa.gov
Did I travel all the way to #JodrellBank this morning for a 5min TV interview? Yes reader, I did. Did I then persuade the fab e-MERLIN Director Simon Garrington to let me climb inside the Lovell Telescope? Well, if you can't flex a Royal title occasionally, then what is the point of having it? 😇🔭🧪
I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
bbc.co.uk
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3w ago“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪
Well, you can imagine how dreadful I think this is. In the meantime, you should all go and visit their brand new excellent, excellent visitor centre. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Jodrell Bank Observatory facing closure after major funder cuts support
Scientists say decision is blow to UK astronomy as deep space observatory is home to world-leading facilities
theguardian.com
Tonight's sky. I was lucky to spot noctilucent clouds, and even luckier still to catch a meteor in the frame with them!
Moon tonight with the Dwarf Mini. Stack of 50, cropped.
NGC 6960, the Western Veil Nebula. It's a supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus. The very bright star is 52 Cygni. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
The Coma Cluster (Abell 1656) consists of over 1,000 #galaxies and is about 300 million light-years away. I captured it over the course of 8 nights from April to June (about 9.5 h exposure), but processing turned out to be challenging. How many galaxies can you spot @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social? 🔭
Evening Moon. 1809UT 20 July 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour #Moon
i shot saturn on 35mm this weekend and hand developed it. because i love pain and frustration and not sleeping #filmphotography 🔭
Milky Way core rising above Mobius Arch in the Alabama Hills outside of Lone Pine, California. I'll probably go back and do more edits in the future, to try to get rid of the hot pixels the scope had. @coastalpaleo.bsky.social 🔭 #astronomy #astro #astrophoto #astrophotography
Regione SH2-29 nel Sagittario vicino alla nebulosa Laguna (M8) a sinistra un ora senza filtri, a destra con l’aggiunta di un ora di H-Alpha 🔭 #astronomy #astrophotography
I remember taking inspiration from this, such a beautiful shot.
Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 3w agoThis is Comet Leonard during its approach to the Sun, imaged by Gerald Rhemann on Christmas Day 2021. The comet had been discovered earlier that year, and broke apart in 2022. This photo won the overall prize for Rhemann of the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022.
The Antennae Galaxies! Two colliding galaxies have unfurled sweeping tidal waves of stars that extend into deep space. About 72 million light years away from us. Image credit: 14 hrs on my tiny telescope. #astronomy #astrophotography 👩🔬🔭
