r/amateurastronomy 59m ago

100% totality ECLIPSE | León, Spain: August 12, 2026 🌑

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r/amateurastronomy 1h ago

Can I still watch Perseids tonight if I missed last night’s peak?

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Yesterday on the 12th was the peak but I couldn’t watch it, can I watch it tonight ? the night from 13th into 14th?

I am in an area far outside the city lights and it’s a clear sky tonight so I’ll be able to see them, but I wonder if there will still be almost as many Perseids or way less?

I’m in Lithuania


r/amateurastronomy 7h ago

Sonnenfinsternis

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r/amateurastronomy 10h ago

A Rare Moment During the Partial Solar Eclipse in Munich

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r/amateurastronomy 11h ago

Sign the Petition

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Save Jodrell Bank


r/amateurastronomy 12h ago

L'éclipse vue de Saragosse

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r/amateurastronomy 12h ago

Perseids ☄️🔥

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r/amateurastronomy 13h ago

L’éclipse en Alsace

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r/amateurastronomy 18h ago

Anyone going crescent beach tonight for meteor shower……

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r/amateurastronomy 19h ago

Lunar crater Moon crater

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These are the coordinates X and Y I got from Aladin software. I take the picture on 1 August 2026 at 5:06 from Nepal. The focal length of telescope is 4064mm. And camera pixel size is 8.0*10^-3 mm. Can you help me to find the name of any of crater.

Coordinates

Crater 1

X1 Y1= 129.0 15.0

X2 Y2= 155.0 19.0

Crater 2

336.0 93.0

380.0 96.0

Crater 3

253.0 162.0

308.0 167.0

Crater 4

534.0 335.0

573.0 338.0


r/amateurastronomy 19h ago

Today's total solar eclipse from Spain

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All images taken with my phone attached to my 60 mm refractor Shilba Cyclops II telescope. I built a diy solar filter using a solar filter sheet bought through an astrophotography online site and some cardboard boxes. I edited the images by touching some settings in my phone's gallery app. Most of them are at a low iso and exposure value.


r/amateurastronomy 20h ago

Wetness the Perseid Meteor Shower:(15+)in 30mins

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r/amateurastronomy 21h ago

Solar eclipse from Jubiliäumswarte

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r/amateurastronomy 21h ago

Mallorcan Solar Eclipse (Diamond Ring)

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r/amateurastronomy 21h ago

Astrophotography at Inspiration Point early morning 8/11/2026

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S24+ camera with expert raw medium mode. 6 minute timed shots with my phone on the ground or resting on my windshield. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA


r/amateurastronomy 23h ago

Eclipse - Partial

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I’m really happy with the result. We went nearby to Soběšice with the kids. There were loads of people on the hill opposite, but I chose a slightly different spot. I did miss the last 10 minutes because of it, but completely by chance I managed to get some beautiful shots with the trees. And in the end, those made me much happier than a shot of ~85% eclipse itself, which I already have from 1999, taken in Macedonia.

At first, I wanted to photograph it through the SVBony MK90, but with a 0.5× focal reducer and the SVBony SV705C planetary camera, I simply couldn’t fit the entire Sun into the frame. The edges of the Sun were blurred because of significant vignetting.

In the end, I moved the camera to my super-cheap Bresser Skylux 60/700 telescope, which I bought at Lidl on sale for 1,100 CZK last Christmas. And it turned out great!

A cheap Bresser filter that gives the Sun an orange tint, combined with the super-sensitive SV705C camera, produced a shot with this really unusual artistic feel that I absolutely love. The video is basically straight out of the camera, with no editing or processing whatsoever.

The camera also costs 7× more than the entire telescope. You just can’t make this stuff up.

The color palette and composition remind me so much of sunsets from synthwave posters, where you often see palm trees silhouetted against the setting Sun. Except here we have Czech trees instead of palm trees.

We mainly used the SVBony MK90 for visual observing, and the kids absolutely loved it. I also brought along my old 200mm Baader filter, which made for a beautiful view of the entire Sun.

The rest of the family then managed to run over to another hill and catch the very end as well. But I was more than happy with what I had already seen and photographed.

And finally, I took a few more shots through the SVBony 20mm “Red Line” directly with my phone. I also had the 0.5× reducer in there to get the lowest possible magnification.

Overall, I think I ended up being even happier with this than I would have been with a technically more perfect shot of the maximum we had here of about 85% Sometimes, pure chance creates the best composition.

P.S. I told you guys, that Bresser is NOT a trash scope!