Image Title: The Devil's Tower

Copyright: Katherine Miller

Date image was taken: June 13, 2026

Location: Caboolture, Queensland 4510

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: This image shows RCW 85, a faint Hα emission nebula in Centaurus shaped by strong stellar winds and radiation from nearby massive stars. The bright ionisation rim and hollowed cavity reveal active stellar feedback, while a compact star‑forming core sits just behind the shock front. RCW 85 is rarely imaged, but long integration exposes its tower‑like structure and the subtle architecture of the gas being carved out by young stars. Captured with the Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P Newtonian and Wave100i harmonic mount using ZWO ASI533MM pro camera and Antlia RGBHa filters.
Ha @ 300secs // 11 hours total
RGB @ 180 secs // 2 hours total

Name: Katherine Miller

Website or Facebook Profile: http://www.instagram.com/astrogirl.au

Image Title: The Cygnus wall

Copyright: stelios stergio

Date image was taken: June 13, 2026

Location: Veria greece

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: This was a new equipment setup test that came out very well.
Quattro 150 f/3,45
Qhy minicam8m with 3nm sho filters
Nyx88 mount
StellaVita controller
3hrs Ha and 3hrs of Oiii 180sec exposures

Name: stelios stergiou

Email: fast_stelios@yahoo.com

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Image Title: M20 Trifid Nebula

Copyright: Scott Horton

Date image was taken: July 18, 2026

Location: Backyard Berthoud Colorado

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: My first summer target of the "26 summer season. Ive always wanted to do a long FL acquisition on M20 with clean core details. M20 is a beautiful star nursery full of rich emission, birght refelction and contrasted by dark dust. Its also full of fascinating phenomea such as HH399 outflow

Completely unnecessary to shoot a target like this in narrowband, but i felt I was able to more control higher contrast color and luminance details in the emission portions of the nebula while keeping the refelction and stars LRGB.

Final Processing HOOLRGB
Total integration: 13h
Integration per filter:
- Lum/Clear: 4h (48 × 300")
- R: 1h (12 × 300")
- G: 1h (12 × 300")
- B: 1h (12 × 300")
- Hα: 3h (18 × 600")
- OIII: 3h (18 × 600")

Equipment:
- Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 11"
- Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
- Mount: Sky-Watcher CQ350 Pro
- Filters: Antlia 3nm Narrowband H-alpha 2", Antlia 3nm Narrowband Oxygen III 2", Antlia Dark Blue 2", Antlia Dark Green 2", Antlia Dark Luminance 2", Antlia Dark Red 2"
- Accessories: PrimaLuceLab ARCO 2" rotator, PrimaLuceLab EAGLE6S, PrimaLuceLab ESATTO 2" LP low profile robotic focuser, ZWO EFW 7 x 2″
-Guiding: ZWO OAG-L, ASI174mm
- Software: Adobe Photoshop, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight, Stefan Berg Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A. / NINA)

Full resolution, plate solved image on Astrobin:
https://app.astrobin.com/i/0zjqze

Name: Scott Horton

Website or Facebook Profile: http://app.astrobin.com/i/0zjqze

Image Title: Sea of Serenity in mineral detail

Copyright: Nyêrdson Ferreira

Date image was taken: June 28, 2026

Location: Cajazeiras; Paraíba; Brazil.

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: The Sea of Serenity is an ocean of petrified silence, where ancient rivers of lava shaped its plain. Its soil, rich in basalt and minerals, holds the memory of a volcanic past, reflecting the serene beauty of a Moon that transformed fire into tranquility.

The final image was the result of capturing 2,000 frames, with the 350 best ones being stacked.

SETUP:
TELESCOPE: SKY-WATCHER DOBSONIAN 250P FLEXTUBE
CAMERA: URANUS-C (IMX585)
BARLOW: 3x SVBONY ACHRO
FILTRO: UV/IR CUT SVBONY

SOFTWARES:
SHARPCAP; AUTOSTAKKERT!; ASTROSURFACE; LIGHTROOM.

Name: Nyêrdson Ferreira

Website or Facebook Profile: http://www.instagram.com/phot.astro?igsh=amV3ZGV4d3k0dGdx

Image Title: Clusters in a Sea of Stars - M22 + M28

Copyright: Daniel Paull

Date image was taken: July 14, 2026

Location: Gidgegannup, Western Australia

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: Globular clusters are often photographed as isolated jewels against the darkness of space. Yet in reality, they are anything but isolated. This image places two of the southern sky's finest globular clusters, Messier 22 and Messier 28, in their natural environment: the extraordinarily rich star fields of the Milky Way's central bulge. Rather than standing apart from the background, the clusters are integrated seamlessly with the surrounding star field, reminding us that they are members of our own Galaxy, sharing the same cosmic neighbourhood.

Located in the constellation Sagittarius, M22 lies approximately 10,600 light-years from Earth and is one of the closest and brightest globular clusters in the night sky. It contains several hundred thousand ancient stars, many over 12 billion years old, making it a surviving relic from the earliest epochs of the Milky Way's formation.

Nearby lies Messier 28, a more compact and distant globular cluster roughly 18,000 light-years away. While often overshadowed by its famous neighbour, M28 is itself home to hundreds of thousands of stars and has become scientifically significant through the discovery of numerous millisecond pulsars within the cluster.

This image combines approximately six hours of exposure using a Celestron RASA 11 and QHY600C, followed by 2x drizzle integration to produce a final image of approximately 240 megapixels, with an effective sampling of around 0.6 arcseconds per pixel.

At f/2.2, the Celestron RASA 11 collects light extraordinarily quickly, making it ideal for revealing faint stars across the Galactic Bulge. The trade-off is that every optical imperfection becomes visible. Tiny errors in focus, sensor tilt, collimation or tracking quickly reveal themselves when nearly every pixel contains stellar data. With such an overwhelmingly dense field, there is nowhere for acquisition or processing mistakes to hide.

The result is an image that rewards exploration at full resolution, where countless faint stars and hidden gems continue to emerge as the viewer zooms deeper into the field.

This image is best viewed at full resolution on Astrometrical: https://astrometrical.com/works/clusters-in-a-sea-of-stars-m22-m28

The field includes several notable objects:

* Globular Clusters M22, M28, and NGC 6642
* Planetary Nebula NGC 6629
* Planetary Nebula NGC 6644
* Intracluster Planetary Nebula GJJC 1 (also known as PK 009-07.1)
* Numerous variable stars
* Numerous carbon stars
* Background galaxies and other fuzzies

Highrer resolution images can be supplied on request.

Name: Daniel Paull

Website or Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/astrometrical

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Image Title: Kokerboom

Copyright: Marek Skowrone

Date image was taken: June 14, 2026

Location: Rooisand Desert Ranch
Namibia

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: Honestly, I look at the photo and I'm still in awe. Neither the description nor the video can adequately capture what it feels like to be in the absolute, piercing darkness of the Namib Desert. When you lift your head, millions of stars are uncountable, and the mighty ribbon of the Milky Way shines so brightly that it casts a delicate shadow on the ground. You automatically feel tiny, frozen in place, completely oblivious to the world around you.

In this cosmic medical spectacle, the raw elements of the quiver tree—sometimes called a tree—are actually gigantic, a desert aloe that stores water in its fleshy trunks, even through the fiercest African heat. It grows incredibly slowly, which is why the largest specimens visible in the photo can be as old as 200-300 years. For centuries, they have been silent witnesses to the history of these lands. It was from their dead, lightweight branches that the indigenous inhabitants – the Bushmen – carved out soft cores, creating perfect quivers for their arrows, hence their current name.

This journey to my great dreams. You with this view – I have a speech that will secure a fraction of the delight and magic that is controlled by that night.
Equipment used for capture:
* Camera: Canon 6D (Modified)
* Lens: Samyang 24mm f/2.8
* Tracker: Move Shoot Move Nomad

– Exposure parameters:
* Sky: 56 frames x 60 seconds, ISO 1600, f/2.8 (tracked)
* Foreground: 1 frame x 7 seconds, ISO 800, f/2.8 (untracked)

Name: Marek Skowronek

Website or Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/share/1Lcr4uMLX8/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Image Title: Comet 10P-Temple

Copyright: giacomo pro'

Date image was taken: July 21, 2026

Location: Torricella (TA) ITALY

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: Orbita attorno al Sole una volta ogni 5,4 anni, attualmente visibile con binocoli o piccoli telescopi verso la costellazione del Capricorno. La cometa periodica immortalata in questa immagine telescopica del 21 Luglio 2026 alle ore 01:30 circa mostra una brillante regione nucleare e una chioma verdastra. Nello scatto si nota anche una sottile scia di polvere, non una tipica coda di polvere, che si estende sia a est che a ovest del nucleo cometario.
A differenza della coda di polvere di una cometa, che tende ad aprirsi temporaneamente in direzione opposta al Sole, questa scia di polvere è dovuta alla polvere residua rilasciata durante le numerose orbite passate lungo il piano orbitale da parte della cometa stessa.
Giorno 20 Luglio 2026 infatti la Terra ha attraversando il piano orbitale facendo risultare tale scia più sottile e luminosa per un gioco prospettico.
Il massimo avvicinamento della cometa 10P/Tempel alla Terra avverrà martedì 4 agosto 2026 a una distanza di 62.005.862 chilometri.
Al momento della ripresa brillava di una magnitudine di circa 13,40 e si trovava ad una distanza di circa 64.400.000 km dalla Terra e di circa 212.960.000 km dal Sole.

 Light: 102 x 120 seconds
 Filter: Optolong L-Qef
 Camera: Asi 294 mc pro
 Telescope: Sharpstar 94 EDPH
 Mount: Skywatcher Eq 6-r Pro
 Acquisition: Asiair Plus
 Software: DSS - Pixinsight – Photoshop
 Shots: 21/07/2026
 Location: Torricella (TA) ITALY
 Sky Bortle: 6
 Author: PRO’ GIACOMO.

Name: giacomo pro'

Website or Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/giacomo.pro/

Image Title: Flaming Skull Nebula SH2-68 with cometary like tail

Copyright: Franklin Marek

Date image was taken: July 11, 2026

Location: Madisonville, LA

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: SH2-68 is a little studied ancient low surface brightness planetary nebula with an amazing name The Flaming Skull Nebula. What makes it really interesting is it is a confirmed case of PN-interstellar-medium interaction creating almost a cometary like tail. I hope you guys enjoy the image and the science below!

My Video on this object: https://youtu.be/tN6IzCNIQgs

My technical paper: https://www.setiastro.com/s/Calibrated-Emission-Line-Surface-Photometry-of-the-High-Proper-Motion-Planetary-Nebula-SH2-68.pdf

Acquisition details:
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
iOptron 10-inch F/4 Imaging Newtonian
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI294MM Pro
Mounts
Sky-Watcher NEQ6-Pro
Filters
Antlia EDGE H-alpha 4.5nm 2" · Antlia EDGE OIII 4.5 nm 2" · Antlia EDGE SII 4.5 nm 2"
Accessories
Askar M54 OAG × · MoonLite CRL 2.5 inch Large Format Newtonian Focuser · Sharpstar 2" 0.95× coma corrector (CRC2095) × · WandererAstro WandererRotator Mini · ZWO EFW 7 x 2″

Dates:
June 9 - 11, 2026
June 28 - 29, 2026
July 3, 2026
July 7 - 11, 2026
Frames:
Antlia EDGE H-alpha 4.5nm 2": 30×900″(7h 30′) (gain: 121.00) f/3.8 -10°C bin 1×1
Antlia EDGE H-alpha 4.5nm 2": 13×900″(3h 15′) (gain: 121.00) f/3.8 -5°C bin 1×1
Antlia EDGE H-alpha 4.5nm 2": 31×900″(7h 45′) (gain: 121.00) f/3.8 -8°C bin 1×1
Antlia EDGE OIII 4.5 nm 2": 51×900″(12h 45′) (gain: 121.00) f/3.8 -10°C bin 1×1
Antlia EDGE OIII 4.5 nm 2": 21×900″(5h 15′) (gain: 121.00) f/3.8 -8°C bin 1×1
Antlia EDGE SII 4.5 nm 2": 18×900″(4h 30′) (gain: 121.00) f/3.8 -10°C bin 1×1
Antlia EDGE SII 4.5 nm 2": 31×900″(7h 45′) (gain: 121.00) f/3.8 -8°C bin 1×1
Antlia EDGE SII 4.5 nm 2": 4×900″(1h) (gain: 121.00) f/3.8 -9°C bin 1×1
Integration:
49h 45′
Avg. Moon age:
22.37 days
Avg. Moon phase:
48.40%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale:
6.00
Temperature:
23.93°C

Name: Franklin Marek

Email:frank@setiastro.com

Website or Facebook Profile:http://www.setiastro.com

Image Title: NGC7129

Copyright: Jeroen Moonen

Date image was taken: July 14, 2026

Location: Oisterwijk, back yard observatory "Videre Videnda" - The Netherlands

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: In the dust of constellation Cepheus surrounding the famous Iris and Ghost nebula there's a small blue reflection nebula called NGC7129 and an open cluster called NGC7142. The nebula has many fine details. This image was taken using a 10" F4.7 Newton and STF8300M camera. Exposure times L 62x 5 min and RGB 26-25-27x 5 min.
Total exposure time 11 hours 40 min.

Name: Jeroen Moonen

Image Title: Ic 5146 HA RGB - The cocoon nebula

Copyright: Clément DANIEL

Date image was taken: July 11, 2026

Location: Pleine-Fougères, Brittany

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: 5146 ou la nébuleuse du cocon

Capturée en HA-RGB

Elle est située dans la constellation du Cygne à environ 4000 années lumières. Entre nébuleuse sombre, à réflexion et en émission, cette nébuleuse est gorgée de signal.

Équipement :

Skywatcher EQ6-R-PRO
Ts Hypergraph 150 f2.8 carbon
Zwo Asi 2600Mc Duo
Filtre Idas Nbz 2"
Asiair PLUS
Zwo CAA
Zwo EFW 7×2"

Exifs :

RGB : 85×300s (7h05)
IDAS NBZ : 26×600s (4h20)

Traitement : Pixinsight, BxT, NxT, SxT, Lightroom mobile

Astrobin : https://astrob.in/4tq1e4/0/

Name: Clément Daniel

Website or Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/share/1JUueckdmq/

M27 is one of the most remarkable planetary nebulae in the night sky, representing the final evolutionary stage of a Sun-like star. In this image, the cyan emission is dominated by doubly ionized oxygen (OIII), while the red regions trace ionized hydrogen (Hα), revealing the complex structure and physical composition of the expanding nebula.

The image was captured from Marzamemi, Sicily (Italy) under Bortle 5 skies using the following equipment:

Telescope: Modified Levenhuk Newtonian 200/1000

Mount: Sky-Watcher CQ350 Pro

Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro

Filter: Optolong L-Para

Controller: ASIAIR Plus

Integration: 104 × 300 seconds (8 hours 40 minutes)

This image is the result of many hours of acquisition, careful calibration, and processing, with the goal of preserving the nebula's natural emission colors while revealing its faint outer structures.

Image Title: Garden of Nebulae

Copyright: Anushtup Roy Choudhury

Date image was taken: June 21, 2026

Location: Padum, Zanskar, India

Data Acquisition Method: Other

Description and Details: During a recent trip to Ladakh, I finally had the opportunity to test my Samyang 135mm lens on a deep-sky target. Although purchased specifically for astrophotography, it had previously only seen use as a wedding lens.
While in Padum, I planned a shot of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex setting behind a snow-capped peak. I quickly set up my star tracker and started the shooting. Compared to my previous attempt at f/5.6, shooting at f/1.8 highlighted just how critical a fast aperture is for pulling out faint details.
And more surprisingly, plate-solving and annotating the final image revealed at least seven distinct nebulae within this single field of view!
Exif :
Sky :
25 sec f/1.8 ISO 1600 135mm x 200
FG :
30 sec f/3.5 ISO 2000 135mm
Gear:
Sony A7C II | Samyang 135mm f/1.8 | Leofoto LS-285C
Software:
Adobe Lightroom | Siril | GraXpert | Starnet++ | Adobe Photoshop

Name: Anushtup Roy Choudhury

Website or Facebook Profile: http://www.lightnlens.co.in/anushtup-portfolio

Image Title: C/2024 J3 Atlas & NGC6819 in Cygnus

Copyright: Günter Kerschhuber

Date image was taken: July 10, 2026

Location: Gahberg Austria

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: C 2024/J3 (Atlas) bei NGC6819 in Cygnus, Newton 8“ f3 DSPro2600C 35x5min, total 2,9h, ASA DDM85, Gahberg 20260710 UT23:39
Comet C/2024 J3 (ATLAS) has no known orbital period. Its orbit is hyperbolic and eccentric, which means that it moves in an open orbit around the Sun. It probably comes from the Oort cloud, comes once through our inner solar system and will then escape back into interstellar space

Name: Günter Kerschhuber

Website or Facebook Profile: http://www.astro-photo.at

Image Title: Squid Nebula

Copyright: Alexandros Filothodoros

Date image was taken: July 05, 2026

Location: Zielona Góra, Poland

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: otal integration time of 63h 25' (Ha: 15h 40', OIII: 47h 45') across 17 days. Equipment used includes an Askar 65PHQ telescope, Player One Poseidon-M Pro camera, and a Pegasus Astro NYX-88 Harmonic Gear Mount. Captured using Antlia 3nm Narrowband 36 mm filters (H-alpha, Oxygen III, Sulfur II). Guided with an SVBony SV165 Mini 40mm f/4 and ToupTek G3M 290M camera.

Name: Alexandros Filothodoros

Website or Facebook Profile: http://app.astrobin.com/u/AlexFilothodoros

Image Title: IC 1396 - An Elephant´s Trunk

Copyright: Oli B

Location: Imsbach, Germany
B4-5

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: IC 1396, widely known as the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, is a classic emission nebula in Cepheus that remains a favorite for both beginners and experienced astrophotographers alike. Despite its popularity, its complex mix of bright, ionized gas and dense, dark interstellar dust lanes always makes it a pleasure to image. For me, this prominent star-forming region served as the perfect 'first light' benchmark to test the tracking precision, sampling, and overall performance of my new equipment setup under the night sky. To framing the region properly, the image was planned and executed as a 2-panel mosaic.

-Optics: Sky-Watcher Esprit 80ED
-Mount: Astrofrog FG17
-Camera: QHY 163M+FW
-Filters: Baader LRGB + Ha
-Software: Siril, Adobe Photoshop, RC-Astro Tools

Exposure details for each panel:
-Luminance: 40x 120sec
-RGB: 20x 120sec
-H-Alpha: 40x 300sec
Total Integration: 13h

Name: Oliver Betha

Image Title: IC 4705 - distorted galaxy with 2 different neighbors

Copyright: Franz Hofmann

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Date image was taken: August 25, 2025

Location: Gemsbock Observatory, Rooisand Desert Ranch, Namibia

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: A cosmic meeting of three very different galaxies. In the center the distorted IC 4705 which is framed by the elliptic IC 4704 and the fine spiral IC 4712.

Planewave CDK14 on 10 Micron 2000HPS
QHY 268M with Baader filters
L:R:G:B 60:33:31:30 x 600s

Name: Franz Hofmann

Email: hofmannfranz@gmx.de

Website or Facebook Profile: https://astroimages.bine-und-franz.de/en/bilder/galaxien/ic-4705-gemsbock-observatory/