Alpha Astro

Search and Rescue Pilot learning astrophotography,Ancient history enthusiast. science and technology

[Alpha Astro @AlphaAstro2]

Jupiter & Saturn pretty close now

[Michael Terhune @SharpStarAstro]

This is the Orion and Horsehead Nebula in a single shot!

I captured this with a wide field lens and created it using RGB and Ha data!!

I love how it came out!

[Alpha Astro @AlphaAstro2]

@astrojml @James_Hawke1 Abhramic religions

[Anomalous reality @spacevibex]

IC 2220, famously known as the Toby Jug Nebula

[Stellarix @Stellarixorine]

Milky way 🌌

[Michael Terhune @SharpStarAstro]

The Horsehead Nebula!

This one was one of my first tries at doing an HaRGB composite image, it came out pretty good but lots of work to do!!

[David Rico 🔭🌌🪐 @DavidRicoGarci1]

Amanecer lunar
1 junio 2026 🌕

[Stellarix @Stellarixorine]

A few hours under the stars to reveal the rich gas clouds of the constellation Cygnus, and at their heart, the magnificent Crescent Nebula 🥐 NGC:6888.

[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

@CodyNailedIt Seriously.

From the top down... from the TOP down!

One single piece of bedrock.

[Panagiotis Xipteras @xipteras]

NGC4236, a galaxy in Draco 🌌

[David Rico 🔭🌌🪐 @DavidRicoGarci1]

Puestaza de sol!!!

[Melisa Oporto @drummermoe]

#space #nasa #astronomypotd

[Alienigena11 @Madriles6211]

M16 Eagle nebula in Serpens constellation by Gianni Lacroce .

[David Rico 🔭🌌🪐 @DavidRicoGarci1]

Amanecer lunar, fotaza!
#cielosEsa

[がんま @gammano]

白鳥座 網状星雲。

25/07/20に撮影した2m x 43枚を再処理。
スクリプトの調整中なので、再処理が増えてしまう。

カメラ：ASI071MCPro
鏡筒：ZWO FF65 APO + 専用レデューサ（312mm）
フィルター：SVBONY UV IR カットフィルター
露出：2m x 43枚
総露出時間：1時間26分
Pixinsight BXT、MGC、AS

[Telegram Group Smartphone Astrophotography @smartphone_astr]

#smartphone_astrophotography by our member @Zarl95 - Please refer to ALT for details - #Antares #RhoOphiuchi #mobile_photography #astronomy

[Panagiotis Xipteras @xipteras]

🌌 NGC 4236 — the quiet giant of Draco

Almost nobody points a camera at it, and that’s a shame. This barred Magellanic spiral sits about 11.7 million light-years away, on the far edge of the M81 group of galaxies. Its light is faint at magnitude ~10, but it sprawls roughly 21.9 × 7.2 arcminutes across the sky — about two-thirds the apparent width of the full Moon. The catch is its very low surface brightness: all that glow is smeared thin over a huge area, which is why it stays hidden in plain sight. If you know NGC 55 down in Sculptor, you already know NGC 4236’s twin — same edge-tilted, ragged, off-axis bar, same understated beauty.

🔭 Tucked near the north celestial pole in Draco, it rides high all year and never really sets for me. The frame here came from my smart telescope, and honestly this is the kind of target it quietly excels at — a large, faint object that needs hours, not minutes. The trick with low surface brightness is total integration time, so I let it run deep into the darkest part of the night, well after midnight once Draco is overhead and the sky has settled. Moonless nights only. No filters, no fuss — set it, let it gather, come back to a galaxy most people have never seen.

🏛 The photons landing on the telescope left this galaxy around 11.7 million years ago. There were no cities, no writing, no humans of any kind — our own lineage hadn’t even split from the other great apes yet. Everything we call civilization, every pyramid and poem and telescope, fits into the last few thousand years at the very tip of that light’s journey. The whole of human history is a single blink at the end of an 11-million-year flight.

🦣 When that light set out, Earth was deep in the late Miocene. The continents had nearly drifted into their modern shapes, and the planet was cooling and drying. Forests were giving way to vast open grasslands, and that one shift rewrote life on land — horses, camels, rhinos and the ancestors of deer and elephants spread across the new plains as grazers. The first true saber-toothed cats, primitive bears, hyenas and giraffes were appearing, and in Eurasia and Africa the apes were diversifying. The dinosaurs were already 50 million years gone. The light crossing the lens is older than grasslands themselves were widespread — a strange thing to hold in your hands on a cold night.

✨ This galaxy lives inside the Dragon (Draco) and that part does have a story. The Greeks saw here the serpent Ladon, the hundred-headed dragon that coiled around the tree of golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides, slain by Heracles. So while the light is older than language, the patch of sky it shines through has been a dragon in human eyes for thousands of years. I find something fitting in that: a hidden, glowing thing curled up inside the dragon’s body, waiting for anyone patient enough to discover.

Thanks for reading and Clear Skies /@xipteras

#astrophotography #NGC4236

[Alienigena11 @Madriles6211]

NGC3576 The Statue of Liberty nebula #NASA #apod

[Marwella Zhang 🚀🎨 📸 🏎 @MarvabluesF1]

Third time is the charm.

[CelestialMind @ScienceXnature]

IC 1396, the Elephant Trunk Nebula : r/astrophotography

[Munich & Porto Memories ⭐️⭐️🇺🇦🔭🏁 @SkidKidd]

The "Pillars of Creation" are three colossal, tower-like clouds of interstellar gas and dust located about 6,500 to 7,000 light-years from Earth in the center of the Eagle Nebula (M16). Named for highly active "stellar nurseries" where dense pockets of gas collapse to form stars.