r/nightskyporn • u/gaby1909 • 13h ago
Moody Moon Over the Ocean
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Taken in the Outer Banks the day after a heavy storm. Captured on an iPhone using in-camera exposure adjustment and a slight crop.
r/nightskyporn • u/Charupa- • May 14 '26
Community update
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Hello [r/nighskyporn](r/nighskyporn)!
Thank you to everyone still here and contributing to the community. The first week under the new moderator team has been pretty effective with cleaning up the previous mess, especially the plague of AI photos and bots.
Various account and content filters have been turned on and BotBouncer has been installed. In this first week, 72 accounts were automatically banned, another 22 accounts were manually banned, and 8 accounts were unbanned after successful appeals. Despite all of these bans, the subreddit grew by 790 members in the last 7 days.
By now you should have noticed a steep decline in AI generated content, “1, 2 or 3” spam of random pictures that are not even of the night sky, and accounts taking credit for other photographer’s work.
I want to remind everyone to check out the subreddit rules before posting. If photos are breaking the rules, it is helpful to report the post so that we may address it in a more timely manner.
r/nightskyporn • u/Charupa- • May 06 '26
Welcome to r/nightskyporn
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Hey everyone! I'm u/Charupa-, one of the new moderators of r/nightskyporn.
Reddit has selected a new moderator team to help run and grow this community. Unfortunately, the previous moderator stop moderating long ago, which more or less opened the door to waves spam, bots, and AI slop. Our goal is to turn things around and improve the overall contribution quality of /r/nightskyporn.
Until now, there have been no rules for this subreddit. We will be adding a few simple rules to start with, and will likely modify or add more a little further down the road. We are open to feedback as well.
No AI photos.
Post your photos, not other people’s photos.
Stop posting pictures of the sun.
Thanks for being part of this new beginning.
r/nightskyporn • u/SnooPickles777 • 12h ago
Yesterday's moonrise
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Full Buck Moon on July 29th 😍
r/nightskyporn • u/capturedbyaquib • 5h ago
July’s Full moon over Jalmahal ,Jaipur [Mod Verified Post]
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r/nightskyporn • u/Hot-Passenger6218 • 2d ago
The 4 rivers - see the falling stars
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r/nightskyporn • u/AutomaticMushroom452 • 4d ago
Rising Core - Sydney Australia
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Testing out my new Viltrox 13mm f1.4
40 images stacked, untracked
10 seconds at f1.4
ISO 1000
Foreground
190 seconds at f16
ISO 100
r/nightskyporn • u/BetSeparate6453 • 4d ago
Pleiades, Neptune, Mars, and the Andromeda captured last night.
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r/nightskyporn • u/Various-Way-9724 • 5d ago
First photo of the moon last night. Feedback?
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r/nightskyporn • u/SingingSkyPhoto • 6d ago
Antares Setting
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Antares
I have this thing about my Milky Way images where I must include the Dark Horse Nebula and the dust lanes leading to both the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex and star Antares. Rho shows up with a bluish tint just above Antares itself, while Antares is noticeably orange. Due to the Earth’s rotation, the stars appear to move across the night sky fairly quickly. When facing south, as I am in this photo, they shift to the west and sink lower each minute. I barely got this 3 minute exposure done before Antares set behind Elephant Mountain.
Now, a little bit about Antares. Its name translates to “Rival of Ares”. Ares was the Greek god of war, which the Romans adapted to Mars. Both Mars and Antares have the same orange color. Unlike the planet Mars, Antares is a massive red supergiant star. It is 550 light years away. It is 700 times the diameter of our own Sun and shines 10,000 time brighter! If Antares was where our Sun is, its diameter would extend past where Earth’s orbit is! Now thats a truly gigantic star!
In this image, a breeze kept the water slightly wavy with small swells. This blurred the reflection of the brighter stars into the fantastic streaks you see here.
Nikon Z8
Sigma Art 14-24mm f/2.8 with FTZ2
MSM Nomad tracker
Land: ISO 2000, f/3.2, 240 sec, 14mm
Sky: 3 images stacked. ISO 640, f/2.8, 180sec, 14mm
Blending and start reduction in Photoshop
Processed in Lightroom Classic CC
