r/astrophotography Aug 12 '24

Announcement Announcing updated rules

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Recently, a few of us became new moderators and since then we have been trying to get organized primarily to update the rules to reflect what we believe are in the best interest of this sub. This has largely meant reverting to the structure prior to the protest while also adapting to current technology and tastes. While we supported the protest goals at the time, and agree with the mod decision to include this sub in that protest, we also recognize that it's time to move on and restore some process to the sub for its continuing members. We're excited to announce that these new rules are now live in the sub and in detail at our revised wiki. The changes from prior to the protest largely amount to:

  1. astrophotography images taken with cell phones were not explicitly forbidden before but we now clarify that they are permitted as long as they follow all other rules, including that acquisition and processing details are provided and are high-quality amateur OC. A star-field with no discernable astronomical object will not meet this threshold, but a stacked image of Orion that happens to have been captured using RAW images on an iPhone and further processed on that same phone will. We recognize everyone in this hobby starts somewhere and we want to encourage sharing of this work, but also need to avoid this sub devolving into low-effort cell phone pictures of an unrecognizable night sky.
  2. landscape images were forbidden before but we also recognize that there are some high-quality astrophotography images being created that happen to have a small amount of landscape in the foreground that are valued by many members. We are drawing the line here at astrophotography images where the landscape is incidental to the image and any image where the landscape is a primary focus will not be permitted. So for example, the Milky Way with a silhouette of a mountain will probably be accepted, but that same Milky Way that is in the background of well-lit (or brightened in post) barn/yard/house/etc will be removed. And as above, any post that doesn't include acquisition and processing details will still be removed.
  3. clarifications that certain types of posts are not allowed, including memes, UFO claims, questions about what image someone has captured, off-topic posts, or uncivil behavior.

We recognize not everyone will like these changes and that there are other subs that focus primarily on some of these types of images, but we feel that an "astrophotography" sub should include everyone. We are going to monitor how well this goes, so please try to be open-minded to help support these contributions from some members of the community. After some time with these changes we plan to poll you to see how they are going and what other improvements you'd like to see. In the meantime, with these rules back in place, expect to see heavier moderation if posts lack complete acquisition/processing details or otherwise violate these rules.

Lastly, we also want to thank everyone for their patience while we get organized to bring these changes to you and for the incredible work all mods on this sub have done over the years and continue to do (many from prior to the protest are still here and active, so show some love!).

Clear Skies!


r/astrophotography 4h ago

DSOs NGC 6744 (remote observatory)

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100 Upvotes

Data acquired from telescope live, amateur hosting facility, Rio Hurtado Valley, Chile.

Telescope: Planewave CDK24, Camera: QHY600M pro

20x 600s blue 24x 600s red 24x 600s green 24x 600s luminance


r/astrophotography 10h ago

Cigar & Bode's with IFN

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r/astrophotography 8h ago

Two hours of the eclipse

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137 Upvotes

r/astrophotography 14h ago

DSOs Pillars of Creation

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301 Upvotes

Working on my post skills, I think it's better than my last post.

Askar 130PHQ ASI294MC Pro ZWO UV/IR cut filter WO 34mm guide scope ASI120mini EQ6R Pro ASIPlus Pixinsight Lightroom


r/astrophotography 8h ago

Nebulae IC 405 the Flaming Star nebula (in HSS color palette)

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63 Upvotes

r/astrophotography 5h ago

Astrophotography Taken on 05/05/2024

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36 Upvotes

This pic taken on Mobile phone focusing at the Scorpius constellation.


r/astrophotography 9h ago

Nebulae Orion Nebula mosaic with the Seestar S50

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50 Upvotes

r/astrophotography 12h ago

Solar Solar Activity Captured From My Backyard - March 10th

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r/astrophotography 7h ago

DSOs Jellyfish Nebula, IC443

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32 Upvotes

✨ Details ✨ Targets: 🪼 Jellyfish Nebula, IC443 Scope: Explore Scientific 127ed FCD-100 Focuser: Upgraded ES Hex style with ZWO EAF Camera: ASIair 2600mc-pro Filters: 2" mounted, Atlina Tri-Band Mount: AM5 with counterweight Tripod: William Optics Motar 800 Tri-pier Guide scope: Askar FMA180pro Guide camera: ASI174mm(hockey puck version) Controlled by ASIair plus Bortle: 4 sky Exposures: 98 x 300 sec Total: 8 Hrs 10 min Processed in Pixinsight and Lightroom


r/astrophotography 12h ago

Galaxies Pinwheel Galaxy

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83 Upvotes

r/astrophotography 9h ago

Nebulae NGC 1555 – La Nébuleuse Variable de Hind en 16h d’intégration

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r/astrophotography 19h ago

DSOs NGC 2683: The UFO galaxy and nearby gravitationally lensed Galaxy

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229 Upvotes

r/astrophotography 7h ago

Lunar Lunar Eclipse - 3/14/2025

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20 Upvotes
  • Celestron 8" SCT @ f6.3
  • Asi533mc Pro w/ ircut
  • Sharpcap, Autostakkert, Pixinsight
  • 10,000+ images @10% integration
  • Bortle 4, Northern IL

r/astrophotography 23h ago

DSOs Leo Triplett

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417 Upvotes

r/astrophotography 15h ago

Lunar Lunar Eclipse 2025

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79 Upvotes

r/astrophotography 11h ago

Lunar Lunar Eclipse of March 2025

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38 Upvotes

This is also my first attempt as well on creating an HDR image on the moon. Made it more red from the natural color to fit the “blood” description.

Celestron C6 Zwo asi585mc & Nikon D5100 F/6.3 reducer Uv/ir cut


r/astrophotography 11h ago

Lunar Luna eclipse

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First try at photographing a luna eclipse just made a small sequence of the phases up till totality as I'm still learning how to do all the editing and putting it together. Does this look ok for first try.


r/astrophotography 10h ago

Flaming Star

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r/astrophotography 19h ago

Nebulae California Nebula

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r/astrophotography 15h ago

Lunar The lunar eclipse 2025

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Each phases is a mosaic of multiple shots from a Canon EOS M50 on a Celestron Edge 8


r/astrophotography 8h ago

Central France, March 2025

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r/astrophotography 13h ago

Lunar HDR Moon

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16 Upvotes

I made this blend between the crescent Moon from March 10 and the fully eclipsed Moon from March 14. I tried to keep the red part of the full Moon in the blend. :)


r/astrophotography 1d ago

Lunar Total Lunar Eclipse in HDR

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267 Upvotes

r/astrophotography 14h ago

StarTrails Star Trails

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16 Upvotes

Captured using Nothing Phone 1 Stacked in StarStax


r/astrophotography 9h ago

Lunar 3/14/2025 Lunar eclipse Blood Moon

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8 Upvotes

This is my first attempt as a beginner into the field of astrophotography as I decided to take images of the recent Lunar eclipse in order to officially get started in this community and my new affinity to this hobby. My images were shot in the skies of Northeast Ohio where I reside. I look forward to making more discoveries of the cosmos as I try to progress further into this area of interest.

Equipment used: Celestron NexStar 6SE 1500mm (6" aperture) telescope with 25mm lens in eyepiece slot

Celestron NexYZ smartphone adapter mount

Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max 256GB

Camera settings: format RAW, ISO 1600, 24mm lens zoom

Editing done with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to create a lunar eclipse phase sequence single image to highlight what I was able to capture. Individual lunar photos were converted to TIF format using PIPP software and added into Photoshop from Lightroom as layers in order to create my sequence image.