Gallery astrophotography

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

The Royal Observatory Greenwich has officially opened entries for ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2026, the world’s premier astrophotography competition – and this year’s contest is shaping up

The APOY judges choose their favourite images that didn’t make the top ten of our Movement category

Jupiter is one of winter’s most exciting targets, not just for its ever-changing surface and moon transits, but for the fascinating features revealed by different filters. This planetary season, try a

Here are the top ten images uploaded to Photocrowd from Round Nine, Urban Life, with comments by the AP team and our guest judge

NOVAStar is 365Astronomy’s own in-house brand of telescopes and accessories. Its latest addition, the Scarlet A62Q quadruplet refractor, is a budget-friendly instrument aimed at beginners starting out