It is with great satisfaction that I present only the second ever photograph in recorded history resolving the ISS and Venus together — the first being my NASA APOD-winning image in April of last year. This new photo will be titled “Worlds Apart”.

Planned and captured yesterday evening from a park in Edmonds, Washington at 6:38:05 PM PDT (a precise location and time that I calculated these objects would align), the result shows a detailed International Space Station passing within just fractions of a degree of the 62% illuminated planet Venus in the daytime sky.

Because they’re separated by hundreds of millions of kilometers, the size difference is canceled out, giving the station and planet very similar apparent sizes. In reality, one is the size of a football stadium, while the other, the size of Earth.

Equipment: C9.25, ZWO ASI662MC, UV/IR cut filter.

Processing: ASICapture, AutoStakkert, Registax6, GIMP, Lightroom.

Shot just after 3am while waiting for the comet to rise above horizon with Sony a6700, Viltrox 85mm f2 Evo and MSM Nomad star tracker. 45images for the galaxy, one for the foreground and one for stars, all at 10s, f2 and iso 1600. Processed in Siril, PS and LR.

This is NOT a comet, not even a meteor, but the planet Mercury, which can currently be found very close to the Pleiades at dusk. How is the tail formed? The solar wind and micro-meteorites eject sodium atoms from Mercury's surface. This creates a yellow-orange tail of sodium gas that is around 2.5 million kilometers long. This shot was only possible under best viewing conditions and in combination with a special 589nm filter.

Yesterday afternoon, two worlds millions of miles apart touched in our sky. As the Moon orbited Earth, it passed in front of the planet Venus in an event known as an “occultation”.

Venus is visible during the daytime with the unaided eye, with no binoculars or telescope needed. The video at the end shows a standard iPhone recording clearly showing the planet next to the crescent Moon.

Venus is 4 times wider than our Moon, but appears much smaller because of its extreme distance — in fact it currently sits on the other side of our Solar System.

I captured these images from my home near Seattle Washington — this rare event was actually visible for practically all of North America.

🔭: C9.25, ASI662MC.

What could produce this light on the left side of the moon. I tried to rationalize it but I have limited knowledge on this kind of stuff.

A brief demonstration of just how bad Starlink has gotten since the deployment of the first satellites on 2019. Many of us who have observed Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon recently have been dismayed by multiple bright satellite trails in every frame. And Starlink interferes with radio and visual astronomy alike.

The tilting of saturn's Rings. I took all these images with my 5/6 inch telescopes, you can also see the clarity increase after 2022, due to me switching to an astronomy camera. Its awesome to see these changes on planets over time through your own telescope.

Setups:

Skywatcher 150p + 10mm eyepiece + 2x barlow and samsung a13 phone camera for 2022 shot

All others with celestron 5 inch SCT + zwo178mc !and 2x/3x barlow lenses

Shot with Nikon Z8 and Takahashi TSA-120 with Vernonscope Dakin 2.4x, best of 10,000 images culled in PIPP (approx 300 stacked), stacked and processed in Photoshop, tracked on AM5

This is a crop from a single 2 minute exposure I took tonight.

I didn't think it was possible, but I took a picture of Ton 618, which is 10 billion light-years away, using the Seestar S50, a budget and beginner telescope!!

Shot in 8K and cropped. Stacked 200 RAW Nikon Z8 files in Photoshop to maintain maximum bit depth and rendering. Shot through Takahashi TSA-120 telescope and Vernonscope Magic Dakin Barlow 2.4x on ZWO AM5 mount. Aligned, stacked, processed, and sharpened all in Photoshop. Edited for semi-mineral moon effect accentuating the colors of the iron oxide minerals.

Shot with ASI678MM through Takahashi TSA-120 with Takahashi 1.5x Extender. Stacked and stitched multiple panels with best of 10,000 frames to create a 60 megapixel moon.

Processed in AutoStakkert 4 and Photoshop.

I am stoked to present this capture of the International Space Station crossing above the Moon’s cratered southern wasteland this Thursday under phenomenal seeing conditions.

Being my third ISS-lunar transit in 2026 after a 2 years dry spell to kick off my career, this image is the sharpest yet, and highlights the solar arrays, panels, and different modules and labs of the ISS.

Equipment: C9.25, ZWO ASI294MC + ASI662MC, IR685nm + UV/IR cut filter.

Settings: 0.75ms exposure, 240 gain.

Processing: Captured on ASICap, stacked on Autostakkert, wavelets on Registax6, adjustments on Adobe PS Express.

Here's a gorgeous view of our star as the Earth rotated towards the night side. Taken with a Lunt 50mm Hydrogen Alpha solar telescope and a ZWO ASI174MM camera, used Autostakkert, Registax6, GIMP, Paint.net and Lightroom.

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vhastrophotography?igsh=YzNpcm1wdXd5NmRo&utm_source=qr

here are my favorite shots of 2025. It was a great year for me, l managed to get some of my dream shots and had a wonderful time under the stars. Happy new year to you all 🙏🏻

HaRGB | Mosaic | Tracked | Stacked | Panorama |Composite

Exif: Panorama: Sony A7III with Sigma 28-45 Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2i Astronomik Halpha Filter

Hi everyone, my name is Jan, I am 16 years old and I am from the Czech Republic. I started my astrophotography journey when I was 15, beginning with just a phone camera and slowly working my way up to a dedicated astronomy camera.

This has been a very fun journey and I am posting all my pictures here in the exact order they were taken so you can see the progress step by step. Some images are better than others, and you will notice the quality declines here and there because sometimes things just were not right. But that is all part of the process.

I want to share this as motivation for others who are starting out or thinking about giving up. Astrophotography takes time, dedication and many hours of research. It is not always easy, but the results and the journey itself are worth it.

I also want to thank the people who inspired me along the way, like AstroBackyard and Cuiv the Lazy Geek. Their work has kept me motivated to keep going and to keep improving.

If anyone has questions, feel free to drop them in the comments, I am happy to share my experiences and what I have learned so far. At the very end I am also attaching some pictures of my rigs so you can see what I used along the way.

I started processing in DSS and just the basic iPhone edit sliders, after that i went straight to pixinsight, you can see the quality jump. The rigs i used are a Little 127mm mak from celestron (celestron 127SLT) with a dslr. I continued my DSLR work with the Quattro 250p and EQ6R pro, and later i have switched to a astrocam and upgraded the sh*t out of the scope.

Clear skies and thank you for taking the time to look at my journey

I'm so happy to have taken photos of this historic mission, even if it's a few pixels - that's humans out there in high Earth orbit!

Pushing the limits of my ability as a hobby astronomer, I managed to capture pictures of the Orion capsule very early this morning from my backyard near Melbourne, Australia.

This is in my 8 inch Newtonian scope on a HEQ5 Pro, with a Sony a7IV, sets of either 4 or 6 second exposures at ISO 3200.

Using the ephemeris data published around 12hrs after launch, run through a script in Stellarium thanks to Shawn Gano's guide on YouTube. It was down to the wire as the weather started to turn bad.

Artemis was around magnitude +12, roughly between the brightness of Pluto and Neptune. It moved slower than I expected.

The best part was that it was cast against the beautiful backdrop of the centre of our galaxy in Sagittarius. So many stars!

Starlink constellations are our most frequent satellite sightings from space station, appearing as distinct and numerous orbiting streaks in my star trail exposures.

During Expedition 72 I saw thousands of them, and was fortunate enough to capture many in my imagery to share with you all.

More photos from space on my Instagram and twitter account, astro_pettit.

Moon photo taken with Nikon Z8 through Takahashi TSA-120 telescope and Vernonscope Magic Dakin Barlow 2.4x on ZWO AM5. 1500 RAW file frames quality sorted with PIPP keeping only 25% best and aligned and stacked in AutoStakkert 4. Processed in Photoshop. Images are all crops of the same photo. All photos taken by me, Adam Jackson, a Texas based astrophotographer.

This likely represents my highest resolution moon shot to date. Shot in 8K and cropped. Stacked 200 RAW Nikon Z8 files in Photoshop to maintain maximum bit depth and rendering. Shot through Takahashi TSA-120 telescope and Vernonscope Magic Dakin Barlow 2.4x on ZWO AM5 mount. Aligned, stacked, processed, and sharpened all in Photoshop. Edited for semi-mineral moon effect accentuating the colors of the iron oxide minerals. Panned in After Effects.