10000 best r/space images on Pholder | I took a picture of Jupiter (with moons) rising over the mountain forest

I took a picture of Jupiter (with moons) rising over the mountain forest

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By complete accident I captured a plane crossing in front of our sun. I was able to figure out exactly which flight it was and got connected with the pilot, who was thrilled.

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I'm 17 years old and just finished building this 14.7 f/2.89 Newtonian reflector telescope. Despite its stubby size it collects roughly 2500 times more light than the human eye and is bigger than the scope at my local observatory.

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On Tuesday night I captured my clearest image of the moon *ever* by blending over 100,000 images, captured with a telescope in pristine conditions. Make sure you zoom in to properly experience it. [OC]

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I took nearly 50,000 images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of Tuesday's moon. Uncompressed image linked in the comments. [OC]

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My newest and biggest homemade telescope, a 24” Dobsonian. I plan to try to observe the dwarf planet Makemake with it.

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This image of the space station transiting the crescent moon got me shortlisted as astrophotographer of the year [OC]

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After freezing my balls off in my backyard fixing failure after failure, this is one years worth of progress in a hobby that means the world to me.

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That's not camera noise- it's tens of thousands of stars. My image of the Snake Nebula, one of the most star dense regions in the sky, zoom in to see them all! [OC]

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The speed of light between Earth and Moon in real time

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I teamed up with a fellow redditor to try and make the best moon shot we could. Here is the result!

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I rented a plane for a great view of the launch of NASA’s newest Mars rover last month

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The pulse of the gas thrusters on SpaceX's Falcon 9, as the rocket's boost stage guides it back to Earth

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I photographed the International Space Station crossing the full moon Thursday evening during a transit window which lasted a mere 0.58 seconds

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For the past three years, I've been writing software to process this image of the 2017 solar eclipse, here is the first result from my code!

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And just like that, a space race is born.

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Right now Mars is closer and brighter than it’s been since 2003. It’s so bright it’s casting a reflection on the ocean as it rises. Took this two nights ago in Rhode Island

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Probably my luckiest shot ever, I captured a shot of the ISS right on the terminator of a slim crescent moon. [OC]

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This battery charger spent almost nineteen years on the P6 truss segment of the ISS, making it (to my knowledge) the longest flown piece of hardware ever returned from space. Each colored flag points to a meteoroid or orbital debris strike we found on inspection.

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Katherine Johnson a NASA Legend

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I took a photograph of Uranus and five of its moons

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1 vs 4000: I couldn't afford a Telescope or an expensive Star Tracker, so I took almost 4000 exposures of Orion Nebula over 3 nights with just an entry level camera from a fairly light polluted city in central India. Merged them together using a technique called 'Stacking' and this is the result[OC]

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I combined my highest resolution moon shot with my highest resolution sun shot to make this composition. Zoom in, it's nearly 8k resolution! [OC]

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Mars Perseverance Rover captured this image.

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1 vs 3000: I couldn't afford a Telescope or a Tracker, so I spent 3 nights taking over 3000 Exposures of the Andromeda Galaxy using just an entry-level camera from a fairly light polluted city in Central India. Merged them together using a technique called Stacking, and this is the result[OC]

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9 Powerful Merlin Engines

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My finished sleeve inspired by Carl Sagan and The Cosmos.

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I pointed my telescope at the Phoenix Nebula for almost 12 hours to capture this.

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My best shot of Saturn so far, taken with an 8 telescope from my backyard in Sacramento. [OC]

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I developed a unique method for processing images of the Sun for extreme detail and clarity. This photo was shot on my backyard solar telescope. [OC]

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I used over 24 hours of exposure of the night sky to reveal hundreds of galaxies, zoom in to see them all! [OC]

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The descent and landing of the falcon 9 booster after yesterday's launch

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ISS crossing in front of NEOWISE. Once-in-a-lifetime shot.

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Found this a while ago, what are your opinions?

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I used an amateur telescope to collect light from deep space for over 13 hours, revealing this beautiful pair of galaxies [OC]

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Perseverance Rover acquired this image

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Long exposure photograph I captured of the recent SpaceX Starlink launch and its reflection along the shoreline of the Atlantic Ocean.

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The Pillars of Creation are almost always shown in false color, so I decided to take a rare image of them in true color to showcase their real beauty [OC]

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I captured an 80 megapixel image of our moon Thursday night, and enhanced color to show more details. Zoom in to properly experience it! [OC]

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Found this in some old family slides.

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I often get asked if people can use my images as wallpapers for their phones. So here's a collection of space themed wallpapers cropped from images I have taken over the last few years [OC]

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Meteor leaves a smoke ring

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Hubble's shot of the Pillars of Creation versus one I took from my backyard in Sacramento last night [OC]

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One of the most incredible moments of my life happened almost exactly a year ago, when I witnessed this comet with my naked eyes. Here’s a photo I captured to try and do the moment justice. [OC]

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Soviet Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev stuck in space during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991

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This is my clearest picture of a third quarter Moon that required 74GB of data (composite)

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I used over 24 hours of exposure of the night sky to reveal hundreds of galaxies, zoom in to see them!

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Size of the moon compared to USA

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I photographed the International Space Station crossing this morning's full moon! The ISS orbits Earth at 17,500mph, and this transit lasted only 0.90 seconds.

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After 3 years of waiting for the right conditions, I was able to get this shot of the ISS crossing the face of the sun. [OC]

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I used two different scopes and over 50 hours of exposure to reveal hundreds of galaxies in a small region of the sky in true color [OC]

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8 of the surviving Apollo astronauts photographed at the Explorers Club Annual Dinner for the 50th anniversary of the moon landings. Photo by me.

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Photo I took of a Delta IV Heavy launch

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Jupiter and four of its moons.

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“The Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars”

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On Monday I created one of my highest resolution images ever, a 778 megapixel color image of the moon. Zoom in and check this one out. [OC]

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Here’s an illustration I made of the Space Shuttle

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Using less than an hour of data, I was able to make my best photo of the Andromeda Galaxy to date! [OC]

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Every object in the Solar System

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After 780 days in space, the U.S. Air Force's secret spaceplane has returned to Earth

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I made a 4k wallpaper consisting of my favorite astronomy images through the years

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Been processing loads of raw images from Perseverance. This one is among my favorites 😍

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My 18 Hour exposure photo of the Helix Nebula from my backyard

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Half-naked girls get thousands of upvotes, how many for our boy in blue?

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Triple-core thrust: Closeup photo I shot of Falcon Heavy’s fury

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I photographed myself looking at the Milky Way just before sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean.

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International Space Station On-Ramp -- Antares launches NG-11 from Virginia on April 17, 2019, seen in a photo I've been trying to capture for four years.

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Space Debris orbiting Earth

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My 13 hour exposure of the Tarantula Nebula from my backyard

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Sunset on Mars by the Mars Curiosity Rover

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Closeup photograph I shot of yesterday’s Antares rocket launch delivering cargo to the International Space Station

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I took my favorite picture of the moon ever by combining 200k photos [OC]

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“Curiosity Mars Rover Checks Odd-looking Iron Meteorite”

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I captured a 360° Milkyway panorama last night. The full image is over 600 megapixels [OC]

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Betelgeuse from the backyard with a tilt shift effect [OC]

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1969, 2011 and 2020: same pad, same flag. Happy 4th of July!

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The Strawberry Moon last night in Powhatan, Louisiana

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Using over 1.5TB of data from two telescopes, I created a 110 megapixel image of the first full moon of fall. [OC]

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Picture of the ISS from last night. Taken from my backyard.

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Dragon departing from the ISS

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20 years ago Hubble's Pillars of Creation image gave me an obsession with space. Now after 2 years of learning this hobby I can properly capture them myself. Here's my latest shot taken from my backyard. [OC]

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Last summer, I took this photo of the partial lunar eclipse. This year, I was delighted to find out it came runner up in the moon category of the IIAPY 2020 competition - one of the biggest astrophotography competitions in the world!

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As requested, here is the full uncropped 140 megapixel picture of the ISS transit I captured on Friday. Zoom in to the surface to see what makes this image so special! [OC]

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I took this from my backyard!

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I took a picture of Jupiter and its moons rising over the mountain forest

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I started using a telephoto lens for my Milky Way landscape shots to capture extreme detail of our galaxy, this is my favorite shot to date!

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My latest shot of the moon in 81 megapixels. [OC]

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Hubble scientists have released the most detailed picture of the universe to date, containing 265,000 galaxies. [Link to high-res picture in comments]

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I travelled 300 kilometres away from my heavily light polluted city to capture this image of The Andromeda Galaxy [OC]

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This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away; the Cassini spacecraft spots a pale blue dot beneath Saturn's rings.

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The clearest image of Venus!

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I used two telescopes to capture this image of the first quarter moon last night [OC]

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A dramatic, closeup look at Thursday’s Atlas V rocket launch — photo captured with a sound-triggered camera I placed 500 feet from the rocket.

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This past Friday was the last time a full moon will occur on Friday the 13th until 2049! Here's a spooky shot I got of it over a swamp.

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I extracted the color data from 150k images of the moon so you can see where impacts paint the moon with different minerals. Wallpaper version and animation linked in the comments [OC]

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