2022 was easily my most diverse year for photographing our night sky. This is an 8k compilation I made of my favorite images.Jan 2023 ⋅ DanielJStein ⋅ r/space
A View of My View, from the International Space Station. More details in comments!Dec 2022 ⋅ astro_pettit ⋅ r/space
I Captured The Sturgeon Moon Perched Atop Seattle’s Space Needle Last Night.Aug 2025 ⋅ Correct_Presence_936 ⋅ r/space
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover viewed these yellow crystals of elemental sulfur after it happened to drive over and crush the rockJul 2024 ⋅ ojosdelostigres ⋅ r/space
New Zealand's Cook Straight captured from the International Space Station.Apr 2023 ⋅ astro_pettit ⋅ r/space
EARTHSET: Artemis II captures their first photo from the far side of the moonApr 7 ⋅ ChiefLeef22 ⋅ r/space
After spending all night shooting around 600,000 photos of it, I’m thrilled to show you my sharpest Jupiter shot so far. This was captured using an 11” telescope and a camera I usually use for deep sky work.Sep 2022 ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
Proudly representing my most detailed moon image after 3 years of practicing.(OC)Dec 2022 ⋅ daryavaseum ⋅ r/space ⋅ #OC
This photo from ISS was taken in 2003 under condition that can not be repeated today; Here is whyAug 2024 ⋅ astro_pettit ⋅ r/space
After a cancelled flight and 7 hours of driving to evade the clouds, here's what I got last Monday during totality! (HDR) Apr 2024 ⋅ peeweekid ⋅ r/space ⋅ #HDR
Artemis II is returning home today. Join us in our live r/space megathread (pinned to the top of our sub) as the crew re-enters Earth and splashes down in less than 4 hours from now, concluding their historic Moon missionApr 10 ⋅ ChiefLeef22 ⋅ r/space ⋅ #pinned-to-the-top-of-our-sub #r/space #4
This blew my mind, so wanted to share with you all. Possibly the oldest thing you'll ever see. (Read caption)Apr 2024 ⋅ Round_Window6709 ⋅ r/space ⋅ #Read-caption
One of the most difficult shots I've ever attempted, this is the moment the ISS transited the waxing crescent moon in broad daylight. Uncropped photo and video of the event linked in the comments.May 2023 ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
Dark spot observed on Jupiter - possible impact event under investigationApr 19 ⋅ No-Improvement-8316 ⋅ r/space
I took almost a quarter million frames (313 GB) and 3 weeks of processing and stacking to create this phenomenal sharp moon picture.Oct 2023 ⋅ daryavaseum ⋅ r/space ⋅ #313-GB
After surviving 260 Martian nights with zero charge in its battery, Ingenuity is still flying - and has reunited with PerseveranceMar 2023 ⋅ FlingingGoronGonads ⋅ r/space
Traveled to the darkest skies I could find in the U.S. to shoot the Milky Way. This photo is the result.Jun 2022 ⋅ MrJackDog ⋅ r/space
I accidentally captured a galaxy that's 650 million light years away. Zoom in for details! More info in the comments.Sep 2024 ⋅ maxtorine ⋅ r/space
Apollo 15 astronaut Jim Irwin with the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon during his 1971 mission.May 24 ⋅ Suspicious-Slip248 ⋅ r/space ⋅ #1971 #15
Astronomer here! It was a struggle to get here, but this week was my first as a professor!Sep 2024 ⋅ Andromeda321 ⋅ r/space
I spent over a year capturing this, the largest image ever taken of the complete andromeda galaxyNov 2022 ⋅ SPACESHUTTLEINMYANUS ⋅ r/space
One of the sharpest moon image i ever captured though a 8 inch telescope.Oct 2022 ⋅ daryavaseum ⋅ r/space ⋅ #8
Pluto’s Mountains, Frozen Plains and Foggy Hazes - from NASA’s New Horizons Space ProbeMay 2022 ⋅ freudian_nipps ⋅ r/space
The 2024 Solar Eclipse is fast approaching! Start making a game plan to see it in person. It’s going to be even better than 2017.Nov 2022 ⋅ kenanjabr ⋅ r/space
I captured something most astrophotographers can only dream about: I captured Star Trails from space. More details in comments.Sep 2022 ⋅ astro_pettit ⋅ r/space
I set up a solar telescope in a wildlife refuge 8 miles from a launch pad to capture this: A Falcon 9 rocket transiting our sun. Apparently this is the first image of it's kind, revealing the details of the solar chromosphere behind an ascending rocket! More info in the comments. [OC]Sep 2025 ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space ⋅ #OC
I spent 30 hours processing 500 frames of the Moon to bring out all the fine details.Apr 2025 ⋅ _ibatullin_ildar_ ⋅ r/space
I spent 7 years photographing the Orion Constellation to create this zoomable 2.5 gigapixel image, so you can grasp the scale of the Milky Way Galaxy.Feb 2022 ⋅ CosmicWreckingBall ⋅ r/space
Galileo Galilei's first drawings of the moon after seeing it through the telescope in 1609Jun 2022 ⋅ KindredReagent ⋅ r/space
My bf took this pic with his phone and I swear it’s the most beautiful thing everDec 2025 ⋅ some_stuff99 ⋅ r/space
Italian astrophotographer Marcella Julia Pace spent 10 years capturing these 48 colors of the Moon.Nov 2024 ⋅ Due-Explanation8155 ⋅ r/space
I captured a 256 Megapixel image over three nights of the Perseid Meteor Shower over the Eastern Sierra Nevada!Dec 2024 ⋅ peeweekid ⋅ r/space
Just learned the space shuttle originally had a white fuel tank but they stopped painting it to save weight.Apr 2023 ⋅ Klondike2022 ⋅ r/space
First Photo of the Lunar Far Side by soviet spacecraft Luna 3,In October 1959 to Fifty years later photo by NASA's LR OrbiterMay 3 ⋅ Suspicious-Slip248 ⋅ r/space ⋅ #1959 #3
My new 30” telescope. I managed to see the blinking Crab Pulsar with it on the first night out!Aug 16 ⋅ __Augustus_ ⋅ r/space ⋅ #30
Closeup of booster and core stage engines of a Soyuz-2.1a during launchMay 18 ⋅ Dexbox_YT ⋅ r/space ⋅ #2
I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up!Oct 2025 ⋅ ColChrisHadfield ⋅ r/space
REMINDER: In just 1 hour from now, NASA coverage of Artemis II's historic Moon Flyby will begin. Join us all live in our r/space Artemis II MEGATHREAD (pinned at the top of the subreddit) to share in the discussion and excitement of this monumental occasion!Apr 6 ⋅ ChiefLeef22 ⋅ r/space ⋅ #pinned-at-the-top-of-the-subreddit #r/space #1
One of my favorite photos I’ve ever captured, this is the ISS transiting Tycho crater on the moon. I formatted this as a mobile wallpaper you can use if you like. This photo also made it into space, more details in the comments.Aug 2024 ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
I captured Eiffel Tower during the peak of the March 29, 2025, solar eclipseMar 2025 ⋅ tinmar_g ⋅ r/space
This is how Popular Electronics saw us living comfortably in space in the future. Sconces.Apr 2024 ⋅ emseewagz ⋅ r/space
Went to Kennedy Space Center and saw Atlantis, it blew me awayMar 2024 ⋅ lazy-parasaurolophus ⋅ r/space
I dragged my camera and tripod to the bottom of the Grand Canyon to get this star trails shotMay 2022 ⋅ grovermonster ⋅ r/space
I made this 12-year timelapse of four planets orbiting the star HR 8799Dec 2022 ⋅ Carthago_delenda_est ⋅ r/space
Spotted a fireball on my way home in Manitoba, Canada on 11-24-22 at 9:30pm CSTNov 2022 ⋅ jjhh86 ⋅ r/space
I Flew 6,000 Miles to see the Darkest Skies on Earth in the Atacama Desert. This Picture was Taken with an Old DSLR.May 2025 ⋅ Correct_Presence_936 ⋅ r/space
My reflection selfie in a window on the International Space Station! More details in comments.Feb 2023 ⋅ astro_pettit ⋅ r/space
I pointed my backyard telescope into deep space and took pictures of this tiny patch of sky for 32 hours to reveal galaxies at mind-boggling distances ... millions to billions of light years away. [OC]Jan 2023 ⋅ TheVastReaches ⋅ r/space ⋅ #OC
My nephew wants to be an astronaut... His grandfather just showed up with this module out on nowhere! I'm blown away.Sep 2021 ⋅ Robsonthebeach ⋅ r/space
I traveled 33 hours to Africa and shot for over 4 hours to capture this image. The final resolution is 24,000 x 12,000!Jan 2024 ⋅ peeweekid ⋅ r/space
I took 59 images of the Milky Way and stitched them together to produce this 250 megapixel rainbow pano as it rose over the sand dunes of Death Valley. Zoom link in the comments [OC]Jan 2023 ⋅ DanielJStein ⋅ r/space ⋅ #OC
From my backyard in AZ I captured The Dolphin Head Nebula. This is my favorite image to date.Feb 2022 ⋅ frustratedphoton ⋅ r/space
I used my largest telescope to observe the moon/mars occultation on Wednesday night, and captured this detailed photo. If you zoom in you can see surface details on Mars next to the craters on the moon. It was spectacular and surreal to witness live.Dec 2022 ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
Ringed Ice around Neptune captured by James Webb, one of the clearest images in 30 years.Mar 29 ⋅ Appropriate-Push-668 ⋅ r/space ⋅ #30
NASA's James Webb telescope has just dropped a new image of the famous Ring NebulaAug 2023 ⋅ Chhaty007 ⋅ r/space
Milky Way over a Turquoise Wonderland. Credits: Petr Horalek / Institute of Physics in Opava.Jun 2023 ⋅ Davicho77 ⋅ r/space
The Coalsack dark nebula adorned by the southern cross, the Running Chicken and Carina nebula, above Bruce Munro's Field of Light at Uluru in Australia. Image by Vikas ChanderJul 26 ⋅ ojosdelostigres ⋅ r/space
I combined over 100,000 images of the sun captured through a specially modified telescope with photos of the recent solar eclipse to generate a truly unique 375 megapixel artwork of the sun. This is just a crop from that full image, which is linked in the comments. [OC]Jul 2024 ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space ⋅ #OC
Using my own telescope and pointing it at random spots in the sky, I discovered a completely new nebula of unknown origin. I named it the Kyber Crystal Nebula!Feb 2023 ⋅ SPACESHUTTLEINMYANUS ⋅ r/space
This is what 13.5 minutes of exposure time looks like on a dark, moonless night in North Dakota.Oct 2022 ⋅ peeweekid ⋅ r/space
The Dolphin Head Nebula - 23 hours of pointing at the sky with my telescope and cameraMar 2025 ⋅ EkantTakePhotos ⋅ r/space
I discovered this planetary nebula using a $500 camera lens, now it carries my nameMay 2023 ⋅ SPACESHUTTLEINMYANUS ⋅ r/space
Mars is at its closest point to Earth right now. Here’s a picture I captured of it using a 14” telescope. On Wednesday I’ll be using the same telescope to capture it being occulted by the moon.Dec 2022 ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
I camped under Orion in the Moroccan Sahara, far from any light (Bortle 1)May 2 ⋅ tinmar_g ⋅ r/space ⋅ #Bortle-1
I traveled 32 hours to Namibia, Africa in search of the world's darkest skies. Here's a timelapse I captured!Sep 2023 ⋅ peeweekid ⋅ r/space
The Tarantula nebula is so large and bright that if it was in our galaxy it'd cast shadows on Earth. Shot from my simple rig in New Zealand.Aug 2024 ⋅ EkantTakePhotos ⋅ r/space
I took photos of the entire recent lunar eclipse. When I aligned them based on Earth's shadow, it helps visualize the shape of the Earth.Nov 2022 ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
My most detailed image of the sun to date, captured using over 100,000 individual photos from my backyard in Arizona. Earth for scale. [OC]Jul 2022 ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space ⋅ #OC
My conjoined camera setup for infrared photography from the International Space Station! More details in comments.Dec 2022 ⋅ astro_pettit ⋅ r/space
This long exposure photo compilation tracks the satellites that travel across the Arctic sky on Feb. 22, 2025Jun 2025 ⋅ ojosdelostigres ⋅ r/space ⋅ #2025 #22
After staying up til 4am and taking thousands of pictures, I'm proud to present to you my composite image of the longest eclipse of the century. [OC]Nov 2021 ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space ⋅ #OC
I used 4 cameras to capture the recent lunar eclipse in extreme detail. Here it is in 4k, Enjoy!Mar 2025 ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
Orion above the atmosphere, captured on my first mission to the International Space Station. More details in comments!Mar 2023 ⋅ astro_pettit ⋅ r/space
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.Jan 2021 ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
Perhaps the most well traveled socks in history, stuffed aboard the ISS for 10 yearsSep 2023 ⋅ astro_pettit ⋅ r/space
Today the sun produced the largest coronal mass ejection I've ever witnessed. Here's my composite shot of it, created by capturing hundreds of thousands of images over several hours using a specially modified telescope.Sep 2022 ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
I used two telescopes and two cameras to capture my clearest photo of Saturn from my backyard. This also coincides with when the planet is closest to Earth!Aug 2023 ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
I captured my highest resolution photo of the sun by using a specially modified telescope and over 100,000 individual images. The full 400 megapixel photo is linked in the comments.Jan 2024 ⋅ ajamesmccarthy ⋅ r/space
My camera collection floating in 0-G aboard the International Space Station! More details in comments.Feb 2023 ⋅ astro_pettit ⋅ r/space
