⭕🔭👀 A tiny red smoke ring hidden in the Swan: NGC 6894, the Little Ring Nebula, last breath of a Sun-like star 5,400 light-years away. Its light left when Uruk's scribes first wrote on clay. #NGC6894 #astrophotography

Gossip by the Lake, 2026.
#LeicaM8 #landscapephoto

Autumn vibes from Germany 🇩🇪♥️ #travelphotography
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📷: Leica M8 CCD, Voigtländer 35mm 1.4 lens

The Seven Sisters
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#stars #Pleiades

🔵 The blue haze around the Seven Sisters was long taken for the dust they were born from, but the stars are simply drifting through an unrelated cloud, and their light combs it into the fine streaks you see around the brightest of them. #Pleiades #astrophotography #stars

The Pleiades from my rooftop with my telescope, 6 Oct 2026 ✨ Their light left around 1582, the year the new Gregorian calendar skipped 5 to 14 October. The stars themselves are about 100 million years old, born while dinosaurs walked the Earth. Clear skies! #Pleiades #astrophotography

Others put solar panels on the roof and wait for the bill. The robotic telescope on my roof waits for 1,300-year-old light from M27, the Dumbbell Nebula, the glowing last breath of a Sun-like star. Raw live view tonight, final photo next.

#DumbbellNebula #astrophotography

✨🔭 NGC 6791 is one of the most scientifically valuable open star clusters in our galaxy. Located in the constellation of Lyra, it lies approximately 13,300 light-years from our planet and has an apparent magnitude of 9,5. #summersky #stars

If you ask why my follower count will never reach six figures, I'll tell you.

I don't feed the algorithm. I post deep-sky light, old myths and Deep Time, no politics, no drama, no engagement farming. I'd rather share the #Bluesky with 2K of you who slow down to look than with a million thumbs. 🫂

☀️ Oct 4, 2026, the Sun is in Virgo. One spot group hugging the edge, a smaller one halfway in, a faint pair near the middle. Cycle 25 is winding down, so I'll take every freckle I get.😂

⛔️ Certified solar filter only!
📷 Handheld, A7RV, 70-200mm f/4 + 2x TC, Baader AstroSolar™
#solarphotography

The Moon over the clouds. Image take at 10300m ASL over Morocco by Panagiotis Xipteras with a Sony A7V camera and a Sony 50mm 1.2 GM lens. #lunarphotography #moon #cloudscape #moonphoto

☀️ Oct 3: Sun in Virgo. A small spot cluster low left, two lone spots, that's it, Cycle 25 is winding down.

⛔️ Only ever with a certified solar filter!

📷 Handheld, Sony A7RV, 70-200mm f/4 + 2x TC, Baader AstroSolar™

#solarphotography

🌖 Oct 3, 2026: 57% of the Moon lit, high in Gemini, 369,700 km away. Shot handheld at 1 am (A7RV, 70-200 f/4 + 2x). Last quarter lands at 3:25 pm CEST.

Along the shadow line Ptolemaeus and Arzachel pop in a small scope, with Copernicus, Plato and Tycho easy too. #Moonphase

One day... 🤖😂 #AGI #AI

The light from M33, the Triangulum Galaxy, left its stars about 2.7 million years ago, when the earliest members of our genus lived in East Africa and northern ice sheets began to grow. Some of its blue giants may no longer exist. #M33 #galexies

🌖 Oct 1: Waning gibbous in Taurus, 79% lit and about 369,600 km away, close to perigee. She's parked under 3° from the Pleiades tonight. On the shadow edge, Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina pop in a scope, and Tycho's rays are hard to miss.

Handheld, Sony A7RV, 70-200 f/4, 2x TC. #Moonphase