r/nightskyporn

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I was looking for a Tajinaste, one of the iconic symbols of the Canary Islands, and I was lucky enough to find it beneath the famous Mirador de Los Andenes. In front of me, a volcanic landscape rises above a sea of clouds that gently blankets the villages below, while one of the most breathtaking night skies in the Canary Islands unfolds overhead.

• Sky: Canon R + Canon 6D | 3-panel panorama | 120s | f/2.8 | ISO 1600
Ha 6x120 s| f/2.8| ISO 3200
• Foreground: 180s | 1/2.8 | ISO 3200

Shot July 4, 2026 with Nikon Z8 and Takahashi TSA-120 telescope with Vernonscope Dakin 2.4x barlow on ZWO AM5 mount. 820 frames at ISO 64 1/40s pre-processed in Photoshop, exported to TIFF, aligned in PIPP, and stacked in AutoStakkert 4. Post processed and sharpened in Photoshop. All photos taken by me, Adam Jackson, a Houston, Texas based astrophotographer.

I was trying the night mode feature on my new phone and the lights went out in the whole neighbourhood so I took this picture. I’d say it isn’t half bad

The view

Captured in Southern California. Single Exposure images unedited

Single exposure images unedited

Canon R5 Mark2, RF 15-35 F2.8, 15 seconds, F4.0, ISO 6400

Shot on a quiet desert night while the Milky Way was lining up over the structure. I liked the contrast between the graffiti, the old industrial shapes, and the clean night sky.

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Cappella della Vitaleta | Galactic Core

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My first galactic core image had to be in Tuscany✨

The illuminated Cappella della Vitaleta beneath a fiery sky, with the heart of the Milky Way dominating the Val d’Orcia.

Shot with Canon 6D astromod + Canon R | Canon 50mm f/1.8 | tracked with nomad

Sky 15x120” ISO 800 f2.8

Land 6 shots bracketing

Ha 12x120” ISO 3200 f2.8

Just as relentless gravity pulls water down the creek, I am drawn with no less vigor by the power my imagination has over me to wander down this gravel road. In Wendell Berry’s essay, A Native Hill, he shares these thoughts on the difference between a road and a path.

“The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.”

By this definition and despite my mode of transportation, this road is much more of a path. My knowledge of this place has not dimmed my sense of wonder for it. Even though I know by loving memory what view may appear around the next corner, I am drawn inexorably to experience it again. Wendell proposes that roads resist the landscape and wish to avoid contact with it. Not so with this primitive road. It chooses to embrace the landscape as it carries my love for wild places and starry night skies deeper into the terrain. I’m not sure why anyone would resist the pull of any type of path that carries them away from hurry and towards the solace the natural world has to offer.

Tonight’s moon shot with a Sony Alpha 7R paired with a Celestron telescope

Any thoughts? Feedback appreciated 🙂