| 1 | Sep 30, '24 | I’ve felt a void in my life ever since my cat passed last year so I went and adopted the cat with the saddest eyes at the shelter. Hopefully he likes Bailey and astronomy and I can | 291× | 20.6M | 351k | 10k | 8.2k |
| 2 | Mar 14, '25 | Last night I used 4 cameras to capture the ultimate HDR view of the lunar eclipse This 300GB image shows the lunar surface in extreme detail, while revealing all rich color that wa | 252× | 17.8M | 168k | 16k | 24k |
| 3 | Jul 7, '23 | Throwback to the time I was shooting the sun and a plane flew perfectly through it, and a bunch of smart strangers figured out which flight it was and got me in touch with the pilo | 210× | 14.8M | 159k | 10k | 4.4k |
| 4 | May 11, '23 | Using two telescopes and over 280,000 individual photos, I captured my most detailed image of our moon. The full size is over a gigapixel. Trust me, you’ll want to zoom in on this | 184× | 13M | 119k | 18k | 11k |
| 5 | Sep 2, '24 | Here’s the time-lapse I promised you from yesterday’s solar activity. Complete with Earth to scale and a bonus of the sun’s rotation. This is easily one of my cleanest time-lapses | 180× | 12.7M | 33k | 6.4k | 4.9k |
| 6 | Nov 13, '25 | Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend @BlackGryph0n transiting the sun during a skydive. This | 127× | 8.9M | 71k | 11k | 10k |
| 7 | May 16, '25 | How do I reassure him that a trip to the vet isn’t the same as being abandoned at a shelter? | 124× | 8.7M | 382k | 9.7k | 11k |
| 8 | Nov 6, '25 | Last night I captured over 60k photos of the largest supermoon of the year using two telescopes to reveal the hidden color in 119 megapixels. I call the print "Artemis Beckons", af | 120× | 8.5M | 36k | 4.4k | 5.9k |
| 9 | Jan 5, '23 | Last night I captured an incredibly difficult shot: ISS transiting the moon, while gently kissing Tycho crater as it flies by at 5 miles per second. That crater is 53 miles wide, s | 100× | 7.1M | 77k | 8k | 2.1k |
| 10 | Nov 8, '25 | Load in 4k to see the number of stars increase (and more tiny craters) | 94.8× | 6.7M | 26k | 1.4k | 4.6k |
| 11 | Oct 1, '24 | Update: he made himself right at home and always wants to lay on me Sad eyes are gone | 82× | 5.8M | 263k | 13k | 5.5k |
| 12 | Sep 20, '24 | A traveled to the top of a Volcano in Hawaii to capture this: Saturn briefly covered by the moon. One of the most difficult shots I’ve captured and a bucket list moment, this event | 76.1× | 5.4M | 92k | 10k | 10k |
| 13 | Dec 22, '22 | If you ever see someone with a telescope on the sidewalk, please come bother them. Nothing pleases me more than watching the reaction of someone seeing a planet with their own eyes | 74× | 5.2M | 62k | 3.2k | 778 |
| 14 | Jan 25, '25 | I captured the entire "Planetary Parade" using my 11" telescope, and combined everything into one composite photo that stayed true to the angular scale of these objects. Made entir | 71.6× | 5.1M | 84k | 12k | 11k |
| 15 | Dec 22, '24 | About 2 seconds after I took the telescope out of its crate there was a new tenant. | 66.8× | 4.7M | 32k | 1.2k | 524 |
| 16 | Sep 18, '25 | I’m proud of this one. I brought a solar telescope to Florida to capture a Falcon 9 rocket launch transiting the sun. While these have been captured before, never with the details | 61.1× | 4.3M | 64k | 7.2k | 6.4k |
| 17 | May 26, '23 | One of the most difficult shots I've ever attempted, here is the @Space_Station captured in broad daylight as it transited the waxing crescent moon. Captured using two telescopes i | 60.6× | 4.3M | 34k | 3.5k | 832 |
| 18 | May 10, '24 | My feed is nothing but aurora photos right now and I’ve never been so jealous 😭😭😭😭 | 59.9× | 4.2M | 46k | 8.4k | 649 |
| 19 | Feb 7, '25 | Load in 4k to spot the ISS | 59.9× | 4.2M | 39k | 2.7k | 4k |
| 20 | Mar 22, '23 | On Friday, the sun put on a dazzling show for us. My friend @TheVastReaches and I worked hard over the last 5 days to produce this incredibly detailed 140 megapixel image to illust | 57.6× | 4.1M | 34k | 7k | 2.6k |
| 21 | Mar 21, '23 | Friday I captured around 200k images of our sun. I asked my friend @TheVastReaches for help working all the data so we could create an incredibly detailed image of our star, and we | 55.7× | 3.9M | 33k | 4k | 1.4k |
| 22 | Oct 2, '24 | Okay one last update before I go back to space stuff. He’s making biscuits and sleeping on my face. I think he’s adjusted. | 55.3× | 3.9M | 166k | 7.3k | 3.7k |
| 23 | Aug 1, '23 | Here's a photo of Saturn I captured from my backyard last night. Have you ever seen it through a telescope? It was life-changing for me. | 54.3× | 3.8M | 42k | 2.6k | 775 |
| 24 | Feb 20, '25 | I proudly present my most detailed photo ever of an extragalactic object: a 400 megapixel photo of the Andromeda Galaxy. Captured over a period of 3 months using 2 telescopes and t | 52.4× | 3.7M | 57k | 5.9k | 8.3k |
| 25 | Jun 19, '25 | On Sunday I traveled to the middle of the desert to capture this: The ISS against our sun. What I didn't expect: the sun producing a magnificent flare at the same time A once-in-a- | 50.5× | 3.6M | 92k | 7.6k | 9.2k |
| 26 | Mar 18, '23 | I spent 3 hours yesterday with my solar telescope pointed at a tall tornado-y looking thing on the sun. This 14-Earths-tall swirling column of plasma was raining moon-sized gobs of | 49× | 3.5M | 26k | 3.9k | 986 |
| 27 | Oct 19, '23 | I used a modified telescope to capture high-speed video of the eclipse at a long focal length. Seeing the lumpy mountains of the moon against a backdrop of churning plasma is incre | 45× | 3.2M | 33k | 5.6k | 2.5k |
| 28 | Jun 9, '25 | I love my job so much. Today I got to watch the sun produce incredible streams of plasma throughout the chromosphere, which I photographed in detail using a specially modified tele | 40.4× | 2.9M | 25k | 2.5k | 1.2k |
| 29 | Jul 15, '25 | My best photo of Saturn I’ve captured since getting into this hobby 8 years ago. | 38.8× | 2.7M | 90k | 3.7k | 3.2k |
| 30 | Apr 9, '24 | Totality: An HDR composite image of yesterday's eclipse. This photo used 5 cameras to capture thousands of photos during a 4 minute period. My goal was to capture the magic of the | 37.6× | 2.7M | 49k | 6.7k | 4.5k |
| 31 | Jun 4, '25 | On Monday I captured 225,000 photos of the moon to create this 500 gigabyte composite showing more detail and color depth than usually possible through a telescope. Here's a thread | 35.4× | 2.5M | 27k | 2.7k | 5.3k |
| 32 | Nov 2, '23 | So happy to finally share this shot with you: a conjunction of the ISS and the moon. This shot required meticulous planning and precise timing to achieve, and the full image (in th | 34.6× | 2.4M | 20k | 2k | 885 |
| 33 | Jun 4, '23 | Last night I captured an 85 megapixel photo of our moon by using two telescopes and two cameras. Check out the details up close! The color is real, but much more subtle to your eye | 33.7× | 2.4M | 24k | 3.4k | 976 |
| 34 | Nov 9, '23 | I shot over a terabyte worth of photos last week to bring you a 1.3 gigapixel photo of the moon. This waning gibbous moon is the highest resolution I’ve ever done of this phase, an | 32.2× | 2.3M | 32k | 3.8k | 2.1k |
| 35 | Dec 24, '24 | He went from the saddest cat in the shelter to claiming all my stuff as his in just 3 short months. This was the exact glow-up I hoped for! | 31.2× | 2.2M | 120k | 5.6k | 2.2k |
| 36 | Jan 14, '25 | Just got done watching Mars slip behind the moon. This is a real-time view through my 12” telescope. So cool. | 30.5× | 2.2M | 27k | 2.6k | 1.3k |
| 37 | Sep 3, '24 | By setting up a telescope in exactly the right point on Earth and using an extremely fast shutter speed, I can capture the ISS against a specific backdrop. In this case, the Apollo | 29.9× | 2.1M | 30k | 3k | 3.4k |
| 38 | Dec 20, '22 | Last night I took my sharpest photo of Mars since I first got into astrophotography 5 years ago. This was captured using a 14" telescope on the sidewalk in front of my house. You c | 29.8× | 2.1M | 29k | 2.3k | 415 |
| 39 | Oct 27, '25 | Captured last night- probably the coolest comet shot I've ever gotten. I've never seen such a dynamic tail on a come. Incredible active, and moving quickly, which makes photographi | 29.6× | 2.1M | 31k | 4.5k | 3.4k |
| 40 | Dec 23, '22 | Yesterday I spent hours capturing this: an intricately detailed photo of the sun shot using a specially modified telescope. Here it is in the full 164 Megapixels, so you can zoom i | 28.3× | 2M | 23k | 3k | 890 |
| 41 | Jul 14, '23 | Thrilled to share my first proper Milky Way shot in years. This was captured off a small island far from city lights, allowing me to see the incredible detail of our galactic core. | 27.5× | 1.9M | 25k | 3.1k | 607 |
| 42 | Feb 27, '25 | This is a real photo captured through my telescope of the moon. Completely unedited/unprocessed. See anything strange? | 27.4× | 1.9M | 21k | 1.3k | 1.8k |
| 43 | Dec 17, '22 | I spent the morning freezing my butt off on the side of the road to get a shot of this: That’s the International Space Station moving Mach 25 in low earth orbit transiting the moon | 26× | 1.8M | 23k | 2.4k | 535 |
| 44 | Aug 6, '24 | This is a real photo captured from Earth. This is Mars the moment it emerged after being occulted by the moon, captured with my 14” telescope and formatted as a mobile wallpaper if | 25.4× | 1.8M | 29k | 3k | 2.6k |
| 45 | Oct 19, '24 | I rented a $17k lens to photograph the recent starship launch in detail. When I aligned and stitched all the photos I took together, it made a unique video showing the entire event | 25.3× | 1.8M | 31k | 4.4k | 4.1k |
| 46 | Oct 17, '23 | Here’s a timelapse I captured of the annular eclipse from Saturday morning. Seeing it like this really helps me visualize the movement of the sun and the moon. | 25.3× | 1.8M | 19k | 3k | 1k |
| 47 | Nov 18, '23 | My favorite photo from this morning's launch. Captured using techniques I've never used before, it exceeded my expectations in every way. I feel this photo perfectly illustrates th | 23.6× | 1.7M | 22k | 2.1k | 800 |
| 48 | Apr 8, '24 | It was absolutely magnificent. This is an unedited photo (with the dust specks to prove it). There is an HDR photo captured using 5 telescopes coming soon, just give me a bit to go | 22.9× | 1.6M | 25k | 1.9k | 1.2k |
| 49 | Sep 30, '25 | One year ago today I found Gregory in the back of a cage at a shelter. He was the oldest cat and had been there the longest... and his sad eyes broke my heart. Today he's a sassy, | 22.5× | 1.6M | 113k | 5.4k | 2.3k |
| 50 | Sep 14, '23 | I'm thrilled to share the most science-fiction looking shot I've ever captured: here's the International Space Station against the backdrop of Oceanus Procellarum on the moon. I'm | 22.3× | 1.6M | 19k | 1.8k | 550 |
| 51 | Oct 21, '24 | Gregory update: he’s a happy dude that runs around my house like a lunatic, climbs on my face while I’m sleeping, and meows at the birds and lizards through the window. I love him, | 22× | 1.6M | 73k | 3.2k | 1.3k |
| 52 | Jun 30, '23 | In 2019 this photo of the moon changed my life. I went from a nobody to Andrew McCarthy: astrophotographer. Thank you for supporting me back then for liking and and sharing it! Any | 21.3× | 1.5M | 22k | 2.2k | 945 |
| 53 | Aug 25, '23 | I used my largest telescope and around 125,000 photos to capture Saturn in detail last night. Steady conditions allowed me to capture it much more clearly than previous efforts. Th | 20.9× | 1.5M | 20k | 1.8k | 480 |
| 54 | Aug 9, '24 | One of my favorite photos I’ve ever captured: this is the ISS transiting Tycho crater on the moon. This got me nominated for an award and made it into space! I formatted this as a | 20.1× | 1.4M | 19k | 1.9k | 1.7k |
| 55 | Aug 27, '25 | By far the most beautiful launch I’ve seen to date. This is one of thousands of photos I captured across 7 cameras. I can’t wait to share more with you! | 19.9× | 1.4M | 21k | 1.8k | 616 |
| 56 | Jan 7, '23 | The first full moon of the year, the 2023 Wolf Moon, is upon us. Here's a detailed shot captured this evening from my backyard. This was captured using two cameras and two telescop | 19.6× | 1.4M | 24k | 3.2k | 372 |
| 57 | Jul 6, '24 | Here’s one of my favorite photos I’ve ever captured: the moment the international space station transited the lunar terminator, captured in broad daylight using a 14” scope. These | 18.8× | 1.3M | 29k | 3.2k | 1.6k |
| 58 | Nov 14, '25 | Here's the full photo briefly featured in my recent video post showing @BlackGryph0n against the full solar chromosphere after his jump. Crazy how small he looks despite being near | 18.5× | 1.3M | 23k | 4.2k | 2.9k |
| 59 | Dec 10, '24 | On our way to the first vet appointment. Can see the sad eyes starting to come back 😿 Don’t worry little buddy, you’re coming back home with me! | 18.2× | 1.3M | 57k | 1.2k | 959 |
| 60 | Oct 13, '24 | I don’t usually post photos of myself but @TechieTex got this photo of me after I witnessed the booster catch… and I thought it captured my emotions better than words ever could. H | 18× | 1.3M | 31k | 1.8k | 767 |
| 61 | Jan 1, '25 | The difference 3 months made on this little fella. He’s been an awesome little buddy, and adopting him was one of the highlights of 2024 for me. | 14.5× | 1M | 75k | 2.9k | 1.2k |
| 62 | Mar 14, '25 | Lunar Totality... such a breathtaking event. I'll have a print available for my high-resolution shot of totality tomorrow once I finish it (this is a bit lower resolution) If you t | 13.5× | 955k | 20k | 2.1k | 1.7k |
| 63 | Oct 7, '24 | Cat update. Gregory is thriving and has loads to say. Haven’t seen his sad eyes since the shelter. He and Bailey have beef from time to time but otherwise they seem to be fine, sle | 12.4× | 874k | 62k | 1.6k | 755 |
| 64 | Nov 7, '25 | Still can’t believe I got this shot… I’m going for something even more difficult this weekend, wish me luck 🙃 | 11.1× | 785k | 26k | 1.5k | 1.7k |
| 65 | Sep 30, '24 | This post has taught me that no epic space photo can compete with cat pics, classic internet moment | 10.9× | 771k | 34k | 711 | 380 |
| 66 | May 16, '25 | He sings his sad song if I don’t give scritches the whole ride | 10.8× | 767k | 36k | 873 | 2.1k |
| 67 | Sep 30, '24 | Btw my dog is named Bailey I’m not planning on giving the kitty Baileys liquor So far they seem to be ok. Bailey is such a lover but her desire to plunge her nose into everything’s | 10.5× | 742k | 26k | 268 | 178 |
| 68 | Nov 8, '22 | My finished shot from this morning's total lunar eclipse. This image was captured by using two telescopes, one to capture intricate detail on the lunar surface, and one to capture | 10.4× | 0 | 175k | 28k | 6.1k |
| 69 | Oct 14, '25 | I'm proud to share my favorite photo I got yesterday: A shot from a remote camera as the ship & 33 Raptor engines roared through the frame. The cryogenic propellant condensing | 9.5× | 672k | 20k | 1.5k | 948 |
| 70 | Oct 19, '24 | @elonmusk Thanks for sharing my work! Here’s a higher-res copy of that composite at the end. I also have some higher resolution mobile wallpaper downloads on my website in my bio i | 9.1× | 640k | 20k | 1.5k | 1.7k |
| 71 | Dec 13, '24 | Any tips for getting a cat off of me? I need to get up. I tried asking nice but he just got more comfortable. | 8.7× | 616k | 23k | 689 | 342 |
| 72 | May 18, '25 | Greg’s face when I told him this is now my most popular post of all time | 8.3× | 587k | 42k | 1.3k | 770 |
| 73 | Oct 1, '22 | That's a MOON of Jupiter. Making an eclipse. On Jupiter. That I'm capturing "from space" 367 MILLION miles away. How could someone NOT become absolutely addicted to this hobby? | 7.6× | 0 | 152k | 9.7k | 3.2k |
| 74 | Oct 26, '24 | You guys made Gregory famous 😂 | 7.1× | 503k | 21k | 1.2k | 374 |
| 75 | Aug 15, '22 | I had to drive to California to get this one. My clearest image of Saturn, at it's closest to Earth. Captured from the roof of a parking garage after driving all day. | 6.5× | 0 | 123k | 12k | 2.8k |
| 76 | Nov 30, '22 | Mars is at it's closest to Earth. Here's a photo I captured of it last night using a 14" telescope. You can clearly see the northern polar ice cap! I'm working hard to learn to ove | 6.5× | 0 | 126k | 11k | 2.4k |
| 77 | Jan 26, '25 | IMPORTANT UPDATE Greg is in a basket | 6.4× | 456k | 42k | 1.7k | 586 |
| 78 | May 16, '25 | Hiding behind me in the vet’s office | 6.2× | 441k | 23k | 154 | 189 |
| 79 | Jan 25, '25 | May you never experience stress like that again little dude | 6.1× | 430k | 27k | 877 | 347 |
| 80 | Sep 17, '22 | 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 usu | 5.8× | 0 | 114k | 8.9k | 1.6k |
| 81 | Sep 27, '22 | After staying up all night shooting it, here's my shot of Jupiter at "Opposition". This is the closest its been to Earth in 59 years. | 5.6× | 0 | 107k | 9.8k | 1.7k |
| 82 | Nov 8, '22 | A composite image from this morning's eclipse showing the moon in various stages throughout the night. The size and shape of Earth's shadow is clearly visible here. These events ar | 5.1× | 0 | 89k | 11k | 2.9k |
| 83 | Dec 8, '22 | This is the moment Mars peeked out from behind our moon after being hidden for an hour. This shot was captured using my largest telescope and a special high-speed camera. Seeing an | 5.0× | 0 | 89k | 11k | 2k |
| 84 | Nov 5, '25 | Gregory went from the saddest cat in the shelter, to spacecat superstar, to helping other animals in need, all thanks to you. I almost can’t believe it, but today I was able to don | 4.6× | 328k | 22k | 2.1k | 553 |
| 85 | Aug 26, '20 | I took an 85 megapixel shot of the moon last night by blending together 24,000 individual image frames. #astrophotography #opteam #space | 4.3× | 0 | 66k | 14k | 2.3k |
| 86 | Oct 29, '22 | I took a photo of something 2.5 MILLION light years away: The Andromeda galaxy. This was done by combining over 30 hours of exposures captured over a couple weeks. This was done en | 4.0× | 0 | 79k | 5.8k | 1.8k |
| 87 | Apr 5, '25 | I just realized it's been 6 months! So here's my first photo of Gregory versus my most recent. Went from the saddest animal at the shelter to spoiled cat that drinks water out of m | 3.4× | 239k | 25k | 1.1k | 408 |
| 88 | Oct 1, '24 | I’m glad I never got rid of Calvin’s cat tree, he absolutely loves it | 3.2× | 228k | 21k | 305 | 148 |
| 89 | Dec 29, '24 | IMPORTANT UPDATE! Greg is in a box. | 3.2× | 228k | 20k | 605 | 168 |
| 90 | Jun 29, '25 | IMPORTANT UPDATE Greg is in a box | 2.9× | 202k | 21k | 899 | 239 |
| 91 | Nov 8, '22 | Happening right now: This is the Total Lunar Eclipse- visible over all of North America as I type this. I'm shooting pictures of it all night so I'll share them here as soon as I c | 2.8× | 0 | 53k | 5.5k | 1.1k |
| 92 | Nov 21, '22 | I TOOK A PHOTO OF MARS! I stayed up til the wee hours this morning when Mars was directly overhead, and used my 11" telescope and took about 160,000 images over a 30 minute period | 2.8× | 0 | 57k | 3.5k | 648 |
| 93 | Oct 5, '22 | I was recently asked what would happen if I used the same equipment I shot planets with to shoot our moon. Well, this: A 562 megapixel image, featuring one of the most detailed loo | 2.7× | 0 | 46k | 6.1k | 2.5k |
| 94 | Oct 15, '20 | Yesterday morning I captured an incredibly brief and rare event, the ISS transiting the 4% illuminated moon during the daytime. #astrophotography #space #opteam | 2.6× | 0 | 43k | 7.9k | 822 |
| 95 | Jun 4, '25 | Greg’s face seeing everyone like my moon pics instead of pictures of him | 2.3× | 162k | 20k | 536 | 207 |
| 96 | Jul 7, '25 | Got home to be greeted by this happy little dude who told me to stop leaving | 2.2× | 159k | 20k | 689 | 226 |
| 97 | Nov 6, '22 | In 36 hours, Earth’s shadow will temporarily be cast onto our moon, creating a lunar eclipse. When the moon is completely covered, it will take on a red hue: the projection of thou | 2.0× | 0 | 35k | 4.2k | 1k |
| 98 | Nov 1, '22 | If you own a telescope, spread the love. I just spent the whole night showing trick-or-treaters Saturn and Jupiter. Watching them (and their parents) suddenly realize space is quit | 1.6× | 0 | 32k | 1.8k | 686 |
| 99 | Oct 8 | Here's a photo that is unlike any other of a rocket launch. This was the moment the Falcon Heavy rocket flew past the moon- a launch photo that began as a disappointment and I trea | 1.2× | 86k | 6.1k | 578 | 428 |
| 100 | Oct 28, '22 | The most rushed shot I've ever captured in my life. A @SpaceX rocket just flew over my backyard. It was moving so fast I barely had time to grab a camera. This might be one of my f | 1.1× | 0 | 21k | 1.6k | 393 |
| 101 | Nov 23, '21 | This morning I captured a detailed picture of our moon, but what's that at the bottom? #astrophotography #space #opteam | 1.0× | 0 | 18k | 2k | 326 |
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