#Tag · bonfire.cafe

This is, at last, my first picture EVER of the galaxy where we live, the Milky Way.
The place: San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, very close to the National Observatory.

#scicomm #astrophotography #astronomy #nightsky #outdoors #space #landscape

Night landscape cut out by innumerable pine trees. Above them, just part of our majestic galaxy, the Milky Way. Covered with cool star forming dust, the light of the bright stars at the core struggle to reach us.

Enrique Boeneker

@CosmoSidewalk@scicomm.xyz · 4 days ago

This is, at last, my first picture EVER of the galaxy where we live, the Milky Way.
The place: San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, very close to the National Observatory.

#scicomm #astrophotography #astronomy #nightsky #outdoors #space #landscape

Scott Kissinger

@scottkiss@mastodon.social · 6 days ago

Crescent moon rising in the night sky, its craters and textures catching the light.

What’s your favorite phase of the moon? 🌙

#Photography #Astrophotography #NightSky #Moon #WaxingCrescent #ScottKissPhoto

A detailed photograph of a waxing crescent moon against a pure black night sky, showing intricate craters and surface textures on the moon’s illuminated edge.

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Maira

@mairamartins@pixelfed.social · 3 weeks ago

Hello world! Late to the party as usual, just discovered what the fediverse is and I'm a bit bummed I've been missing out on you all for years. Promptly joined mastodon and pixelfed to rectify this mistake. Let's be friends!

#moon #landscapephotography #nightsky #sunset #canon5dmark3

A dusk landscape features a crescent moon in a darkening sky with two silhouetted wind turbines.

Maira

@mairamartins@pixelfed.social · 3 weeks ago

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EZ Lorenz 🇺🇸 📸

@EZLorenzImagery@socel.net · 3 weeks ago

A wider view of the Milky Way with an iridium flare stretching over the snow-capped Tahoma.

https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/the-milky-way-stretching-over-mount-rainier-wa-ez-lorenz.html

#Washington #PNW #MilkyWay #Stars #NightSky #Astro #Mountains #Nature #Photography #Photo #Prints #ArtPrints #ArtForSale #WallArt #HomeDecor #GreetingCards #Puzzle #Gifts #Giftideas #FediGiftShop #PhotoOfTheDay

A breathtaking night sky displays the Milky Way stretching across the stars above Mount Rainier / Tahoma in Washington state with an iridium flare.
Snow-capped peaks and pine trees stand silhouetted against the horizon, with a road leading into the scene at the Sunrise corridor of the Mount Rainier National Park.
A climber is already on the way to the peak, indicated by their headlights on the side of the mountain at 12:23AM on July 29, 2025. — A breathtaking night sky displays the Milky Way stretching across the stars above Mount Rainier / Tahoma in Washington state with an iridium flare. Snow-capped peaks and pine trees stand silhouetted against the horizon, with a road leading into the scene at the Sunrise corridor of the Mount Rainier National Park. A climber is already on the way to the peak, indicated by their headlights on the side of the mountain at 12:23AM on July 29, 2025.

EZ Lorenz 🇺🇸 📸

@EZLorenzImagery@socel.net · 3 weeks ago

A wider view of the Milky Way with an iridium flare stretching over the snow-capped Tahoma.

https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/the-milky-way-stretching-over-mount-rainier-wa-ez-lorenz.html

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AaronPengellyPhotography

@AaronPengellyPhotography@mastodon.social · 4 weeks ago

Exploring the night sky together.

Read the stories behind our adventures: https://www.aaronpengellyphotography.com/blog/

#astronomy #photography #astrophotography #moon #stars #nightsky

A man and young child are seen crouching down next to a telescope, writing in an astronomy observation journal at night.

A child crouches down, looking through a telescope at night with the area bathed in a red glow.

A man crouches down, looking through a telescope at night with the area bathed in a red glow.

AaronPengellyPhotography

@AaronPengellyPhotography@mastodon.social · 4 weeks ago

Exploring the night sky together.

Read the stories behind our adventures: https://www.aaronpengellyphotography.com/blog/

#astronomy #photography #astrophotography #moon #stars #nightsky

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StellarSnap

@stellarsnap@mastodon.social · last month

📸 Titan Shadow Transit

Every 15 years, Saturn’s rings appear edge-on from Earth. The view may be narrow, but it reveals rare transits of Saturn’s moons and their shadows.

In this image from July 18, Titan crosses Saturn’s face, casting a dark round shadow on its cloud tops.

📷 Volodymyr Andrienko

#Titan #Saturn #ShadowTransit #Astronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #NightSky #PlanetaryAlignment

A telescopic image of Saturn with its rings nearly edge-on, creating a thin horizontal line across the planet. Saturn's banded atmosphere is clearly visible. At the upper left, Saturn’s largest moon Titan appears as a small pale dot, while a round, dark shadow from Titan is cast onto the gas giant’s cloud tops, just above the rings. The contrast between the planet, rings, moon, and shadow makes the scene striking and dynamic.

StellarSnap

@stellarsnap@mastodon.social · last month

📸 Titan Shadow Transit

Every 15 years, Saturn’s rings appear edge-on from Earth. The view may be narrow, but it reveals rare transits of Saturn’s moons and their shadows.

In this image from July 18, Titan crosses Saturn’s face, casting a dark round shadow on its cloud tops.

📷 Volodymyr Andrienko

#Titan #Saturn #ShadowTransit #Astronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #NightSky #PlanetaryAlignment

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Aaron Pengelly

@AaronPengellyPhoto@pixelfed.social · last month

My journey with photography began about 11 years ago when I bought my first telescope. The photos were terrible, but it ignited a passion for sharing the beauty of the world and universe around us.

I had to sell all my astronomy equipment when my family and I were downsizing and readying ourselves for nursing school 4 years ago, and my daughter and I have talked ever since about how we would one day get a new telescope to see the moon and stars once my nursing program was complete. Last week, that time finally came when I found two people selling their equipment, and long story short I was lucky to end up with a Star Adventurer 2i tracker and a Sky-Watcher 102mm Mak telescope.

While I haven't had the opportunity to test out the telescope with the tracker, I did get out on the night of July 14th to test out the star tracker with my collection of Sigma lenses and the images above are single exposure test images taken to assess the maximum exposure time with various focal lengths. I also took a few photos of the moon to combine into HDR images.

I hope you enjoy!

#photography #astrophotography #telescope #nightsky #astronomy #moon #stars

The star Deneb in the constellation Cygnus with some of the North America Nebula visible.

The Double Cluster in the constellation Perseus

One half of a swipeable image of the Andromeda Galaxy

The Sky-Watcher 102mm Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope on the Star Adventurer 2i star tracker.

A photo of the star Vega in the constellation Lyra.

A widefield HDR image of the waning gibbous moon.

An HDR image of the waning gibbous moon.

Aaron Pengelly

@AaronPengellyPhoto@pixelfed.social · last month

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Thomas Hanrath

@astrocampEU@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

Messier 16 - Eagle Nebula

is a visually stunning emission nebula, located in the constellation Serpens, about 7,000 light-years from Earth. It includes the famous Pillars of Creation and reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight, making it best observed in late June.

Detailed Information: https://astrocamp.eu/en/messier-16-eagle-nebula/

▼ Takahashi FS60CB | Canon EOS M100(a) '23

#astrophotography #nightsky #space #astronomy #telescope #clearsky #photography #nature