[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @AJamesMcCarthy Andrew McCarthy Andrew McCarthy posts on X about all the, $2k, chaos, mars the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2492039959/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +106% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::2492039959/posts_active)  - X Week XXX -XX% - X Month XXX +76% - X Months XXX -XX% - X Year XXXXX +144% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2492039959/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.17% - X Month XXXXXXX +1.80% - X Months XXXXXXX +8.30% - X Year XXXXXXX +42% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2492039959/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::2492039959/influence) --- **Social category influence** [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [all the](/topic/all-the) 1.67%, [$2k](/topic/$2k) 1.11%, [chaos](/topic/chaos) #292, [mars](/topic/mars) 1.11%, [get a](/topic/get-a) #1124, [greg](/topic/greg) 1.11%, [arizona](/topic/arizona) 1.11%, [plasma](/topic/plasma) 0.56%, [spacex](/topic/spacex) 0.56%, [influencer](/topic/influencer) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@maybejaybee1488](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@steph_polymath](/creator/undefined) [@neosocratas](/creator/undefined) [@porridge_wog](/creator/undefined) [@gmble83](/creator/undefined) [@greg16676935420](/creator/undefined) [@leg0king](/creator/undefined) [@womenarexx](/creator/undefined) [@opsofacto](/creator/undefined) [@superkindnsweet](/creator/undefined) [@cflick](/creator/undefined) [@nerds4liberty](/creator/undefined) [@morgannike49](/creator/undefined) [@suehilasmith](/creator/undefined) [@ksquared1919](/creator/undefined) [@wildernessbasin](/creator/undefined) [@waitbutwhy](/creator/undefined) [@pinkcattle](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::2492039959/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "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 telescope"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1932177082500657597) 2025-06-09 20:44:49 UTC 411.7K followers, 2.9M engagements "The JWST photo inspired this: a real capture of mine that I edited. The rings arent detectable with my equipment so were added digitally. I used to do art projects like this all the time but have been disheartened when they get stolen and reposted with false captions 😖"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945184238027915764) 2025-07-15 18:10:36 UTC 411.9K followers, 85.2K engagements "When I first got a telescope it was a bit overwhelming knowing what to get and to have the right kind of expectations as different types of astronomy can have very opposite criteria. For that reason I put together this telescope buying guide:"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945268708542382528) 2025-07-15 23:46:16 UTC 411.9K followers, 78.9K engagements "The view from my backyard looks like a painting right now"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1944946723547459819) 2025-07-15 02:26:48 UTC 411.9K followers, 61K engagements "@Codebender_Cate @JenniferTilly SpaceX launch out of Vandenberg"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1946749300274258186) 2025-07-20 01:49:36 UTC 411.8K followers, XXX engagements "After spending the last few months capturing it I'm thrilled to share with you my newest artwork my deepest look at the milky way yet. A XXX hour exposure revealing the chaos happening in our skies. I call it "Above the Rift". Here's a short thread about what you're seeing"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1948402475519869176) 2025-07-24 15:18:44 UTC 411.9K followers, 207.3K engagements "This photo gave me a new perspective on how our sky looks and I hope it does the same for you. Get my latest artwork Above the Rift for a short time at the link in my bio"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1948514826709553659) 2025-07-24 22:45:10 UTC 411.9K followers, 67.1K engagements "I need to put something back in this box but he hasnt left it alone for X days"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1944103949671575736) 2025-07-12 18:37:55 UTC 411.9K followers, 139.3K engagements "All the space lovers who follow me watching me slowly devolve into a pet influencer"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1947712189311119613) 2025-07-22 17:35:47 UTC 411.9K followers, 60.3K engagements "If you collect enough photons youll see space is far from empty"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1944189535203549283) 2025-07-13 00:18:01 UTC 411.9K followers, 76.1K engagements "Id go to the moon in a heartbeat but Mars would be a tougher decision with the fastest journey being several months. The missions would be years long. The first people to go to Mars will be some of the bravest"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1946996270511362489) 2025-07-20 18:10:58 UTC 411.9K followers, 88K engagements "@elonmusk *sigh* I guess Ill take pics of Uranus tonight"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1947845884357841176) 2025-07-23 02:27:02 UTC 411.9K followers, 34K engagements "Last night I used an 11" telescope and two cameras to capture the Strawberry Moon as it hung low in the sky. My goal was to reveal all the hidden color that is too faint for your eyes to see telling the story of the moon's trauma"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1932878085164257493) 2025-06-11 19:10:21 UTC 411.9K followers, 480.5K engagements "I just finished my first photo project with this contraption. A XXX hour exposure with close to XXX megapixels. I think youll like it. Give me a week or so to make sure itll work in print and Ill share it with you"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1944559437768974738) 2025-07-14 00:47:52 UTC 411.9K followers, 105.7K engagements "If you love space you should love my Gregory pics. It lets me introduce animal lovers to the wonders of the universe. Getting more people to think beyond our planet helps us all Also tomorrow Im going to be sharing a project Ive been working on for months so stick around :)"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1948097653264556125) 2025-07-23 19:07:29 UTC 411.9K followers, 51.7K engagements "The limited edition fine art print and a full size annotated download will be on this page for a short time: This is the part of the sky I focused on for this piece right at the top of "The Great Rift" where Cygnus is brimming with star-forming nebulae:"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1948402479886127523) 2025-07-24 15:18:45 UTC 411.9K followers, 6918 engagements "@BMohammedl I bet we see crewed Mars missions within 5-7 years depending on if starship reaches its reusability goals. Commercial spaceflight has a lot of inertia right now so even if they dont make it work someone will eventually. Id say permanent home. Moon is the stopover"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1946997067198410760) 2025-07-20 18:14:08 UTC 411.6K followers, 1929 engagements "In my defense it was a super gorgeous sunset"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945675731092254981) 2025-07-17 02:43:37 UTC 411.9K followers, 19.1K engagements "This was probably my most intense project working every morning and night for X weeks grabbing sleep only when possible. Tomorrow Im sharing a project to my email subscribers that didnt cost me as much sleep but was even more complex"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1947775536987836880) 2025-07-22 21:47:30 UTC 411.9K followers, 52.3K engagements "Id love to get a telescope but I have too much light pollution Heres a photo I captured of Saturn from the roof of a parking garage in the heart of Los Angeles. Light pollution doesnt affect planet shots whatsoever"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945633953182093669) 2025-07-16 23:57:37 UTC 411.9K followers, 259.7K engagements "This is XXX megapixels by the way. An annotated full size download is available on my website (check my bio) for free if you want to peep it. The download is annotated as a companion to the fine art prints so you can tell people all about your cool new art piece"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1948409836057886957) 2025-07-24 15:47:59 UTC 411.9K followers, 30.8K engagements "Hes disappointed Im working on my cameras instead of giving scritches"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1935432646525599785) 2025-06-18 20:21:16 UTC 411.9K followers, 239.9K engagements "Greg is sitting in his box and hallucinating"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1943701796767027655) 2025-07-11 15:59:55 UTC 411.9K followers, 189.7K engagements "Yes its a real photo I captured this with a XX telescope from my backyard. Uranus is actually beautiful to look at through even smaller scopes like the X I recommend in my telescope buying guide:"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945532420251582813) 2025-07-16 17:14:09 UTC 411.9K followers, 22.2K engagements "I keep seeing my sun footage from this video shared without context so figured Id post it again so you can ask questions to me directly No AI or CGI was used in the creation of this video- just the raw power of the sun and a solar telescope in my backyard"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1942642343783587874) 2025-07-08 17:50:01 UTC 411.9K followers, 333K engagements "Happy Birthday to the only country to ever do this"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1941180059131548126) 2025-07-04 16:59:26 UTC 411.9K followers, 1.1M engagements "Here's a video I put together showing some of my telescopes and the photos they've captured. In order from smallest to largest. the last one is a monster 🤣"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1946659561576030471) 2025-07-19 19:53:01 UTC 411.9K followers, 47.5K engagements "Ever seen Saturn through a telescope Using photos captured through my 14" telescope I tried to overcome the camera's limits to simulate the appearance through the eyepiece as closely as I could. It's one of the most surreal things you'll ever see with your own eyes"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1923459855383155151) 2025-05-16 19:25:40 UTC 411.9K followers, 126K engagements "New fine art astrophotography print coming This photo is a TINY excerpt of a nearly XXX megapixel photo Ill be unveiling to you all next week. If you want to see it early join my email list Its linked in my bio and comes with a free telescope buying guide"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1946031677475832140) 2025-07-18 02:18:02 UTC 411.9K followers, 29.4K engagements "Why are you taking photos of the sunset instead of me"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945675411037491213) 2025-07-17 02:42:21 UTC 411.9K followers, 93.5K engagements "Fixing something on my website really quick and then will be sharing my big project I've been teasing for the last couple weeks"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1948399256819376319) 2025-07-24 15:05:56 UTC 411.9K followers, 16.2K engagements "@zwartgeleridder If its any consolation I post far more often now several space posts a day (used to be one a day). So yes I shove greggers down your throat but I balance it with the stars"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1947713548328833328) 2025-07-22 17:41:11 UTC 411.9K followers, 1173 engagements "Its always Why does that cat account I follow post so many space pics and never When is Gregory getting a nebula named after him First box-shaped nebula I discover is all yours buddy 🫡"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1946022475902730372) 2025-07-18 01:41:28 UTC 411.9K followers, 118.8K engagements "@Tony86413767 That's 16" I thought the 300P was 12" No wonder it looks so awesome lol"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945582042718319032) 2025-07-16 20:31:20 UTC 411.9K followers, XXX engagements "Happening right now: The moon is drifting past Mars. Look up This was captured just a moment ago with a 12" telescope"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1939511789022244908) 2025-06-30 02:30:19 UTC 411.7K followers, 102.8K engagements "I put together this little video with behind the scenes of my latest ISS transit shot. You can see how it looked live through the telescopes (real time speed is NUTS) vs after the processed image. These are so rewarding to capture 🤓"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1936132721748984004) 2025-06-20 18:43:07 UTC 411.9K followers, 134.4K engagements "Take some time to enjoy the sunset tonight"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1947846214457983323) 2025-07-23 02:28:21 UTC 411.9K followers, 28.8K engagements "I call this piece "Kardashev Dreams" as it represents the humble beginnings as our civilization grows I released it in two versions: This one and one that's an uncropped panorama you can see on my website here: Prints available for a short time"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1935724226126008471) 2025-06-19 15:39:54 UTC 411.9K followers, 212.1K engagements "My shot of the 2025 Buck moon captured less than an hour ago as it rose over my neighbor's house"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1943543094625890309) 2025-07-11 05:29:17 UTC 411.9K followers, 180.1K engagements "Remember that time we had a lunar eclipse near the Pleiades That was awesome"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1943083258381766672) 2025-07-09 23:02:04 UTC 411.9K followers, 74.6K engagements "Last night I used X 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 was projected onto the surface See the full res crop or get a print in the reply to this post"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1900620242424131787) 2025-03-14 18:49:12 UTC 411.9K followers, 18M engagements "Beautiful launch tonight out of Vandenberg. Despite the rocket being over the Pacific here I was able to see it in Arizona"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1946420338306523414) 2025-07-19 04:02:26 UTC 411.9K followers, 43.5K engagements "Neil Armstrong held the most optimistic views of the first mission estimating a XX% chance of survival. Russian roulette has worse odds but not by much. Some official estimates put the chance of success at 5%"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1946988638006555068) 2025-07-20 17:40:39 UTC 411.9K followers, 27.9K engagements "Hard to imagine a greater purpose than extending humanitys explored frontiers beyond Earth. I would go to the moon in a heartbeat if given the opportunity. Would you"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1946987509767917695) 2025-07-20 17:36:10 UTC 411.9K followers, 87.8K engagements "My telescope malfunctioned and made it look like the stars are actually little harps 🫶"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1924321504843702615) 2025-05-19 04:29:33 UTC 411.9K followers, 71.5K engagements "Idk why this was requested so much but here it is: my best photo of Uranus"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945521504164380689) 2025-07-16 16:30:47 UTC 411.9K followers, 288.5K engagements "My planet photos are thousands of individual photos stacked. Heres how it looks during the capture process. If you want to learn how to get into this hobby right now Im sending people my telescope buying guide for free when they join my email list:"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945644658048336046) 2025-07-17 00:40:09 UTC 411.9K followers, 24.4K engagements "Update: completely passed out in the trash"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1943722746757939271) 2025-07-11 17:23:10 UTC 411.9K followers, 252.7K engagements "Im going to shamelessly use the popularity of my cat to promote my upcoming print release which I cant show you quite yet but its FILLED with vibrant nebulae. You can join my email list if you want to see it early"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1946027689217052909) 2025-07-18 02:02:11 UTC 411.9K followers, 18.1K engagements "If you haven't already strongly recommend reading this book. I'm sure the film will be good but hard to imagine competing with the experience of reading this book for the first time"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1939420897859006605) 2025-06-29 20:29:09 UTC 411.9K followers, 740K engagements "@danielleRoyalKC Travel at light speed for XXX million years (the trip would feel instant)"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1947478609288917099) 2025-07-22 02:07:37 UTC 411.7K followers, XXX engagements "Bonus shot from my latest capture of the ISS transiting the sun: One of the captured frames sat right on the limb against these background prominences. The ISS is so iconic I'm going to miss it when it's gone"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1939759499507900447) 2025-06-30 18:54:38 UTC 411.9K followers, 435.6K engagements "I pushed my 8" telescope to the absolute limits to peer deep into the shockwave of a supernova. The image revealed a chaotic tangle of ionized hydrogen and oxygen still expanding through space 8000 years after the star erupted. You'll see more of this in a few days :)"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1947053731998216397) 2025-07-20 21:59:18 UTC 411.9K followers, 157.9K engagements "The Gregposting will continue until morale improves"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1938777438793933119) 2025-06-28 01:52:16 UTC 411.9K followers, 141.5K engagements "Was going through some old photos and found this fun one I put together in early 2019 not long after I got into this hobby. At the time I was getting creative with my lunar photos and put X of them together in one composite"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1942353938562572663) 2025-07-07 22:44:00 UTC 411.8K followers, 27.7K engagements "Ive shared my best photos of Saturn and Uranus and now this is my best photo of Mars. Captured in 2022 during a really nice opposition with a XX telescope from my backyard. It doesnt seem so far through a big telescope"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945576391669682597) 2025-07-16 20:08:53 UTC 411.9K followers, 143.8K engagements "Top: How Gregory sleeps Bottom: How Gregory sleeps when Im vacuuming"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945631563892556108) 2025-07-16 23:48:07 UTC 411.9K followers, 57.4K engagements "@MSmith457 I use an equatorial mount that compensates for Earths rotation and the exposures are cumulative over many nights"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1948412440070295615) 2025-07-24 15:58:20 UTC 411.9K followers, 2174 engagements "@DieterKief This part of space is super colorful Naturally its a bit less yellow and more red the yellow comes from the optical filters used. I almost never add color to my work its only done on solar photography since its single channel"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1948413876812341653) 2025-07-24 16:04:02 UTC 411.9K followers, 1851 engagements "On my best photo of Jupiter you can see some the surface detail on its largest moon: Ganymede Absolutely incredible whats possible with backyard scopes these days"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945928789235728864) 2025-07-17 19:29:11 UTC 411.9K followers, 137.7K engagements "I know I don't do a good job advertising it but the raw data from this and many other deep sky shots is available as a perk on patreon. It's my same username if you're interested I like giving people a feel for the image processing side of things as its my favorite part"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1947394142478471408) 2025-07-21 20:31:59 UTC 411.9K followers, 29.6K engagements "I extracted just the stars from the photo I'm sharing next week and ran a script to count them. There's nearly a million detectible stars in the image. So much to look at"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1946708293411602517) 2025-07-19 23:06:39 UTC 411.9K followers, 27.4K engagements "This is a photo of the solar chromosphere part if the suns atmosphere. Its captured by using a telescope modified to safely view a very narrow part of the visible light spectrum without melting my camera. I wrote an article about these sun shots here:"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1946357348596846711) 2025-07-18 23:52:08 UTC 411.9K followers, 23.3K engagements "Top: Hubble (16 Billion) Middle: JWST (10 Billion) Bottom: me ($2k)"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945180087004917973) 2025-07-15 17:54:07 UTC 411.9K followers, 454.7K engagements "FYI every photo I share is captured by me unless explicitly stated otherwise Most are from my backyard and all are captured using off-the-shelf consumer equipment This one was captured using a telescope I found used for just $XXX formatted as a mobile wallpaper for you to use"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1944911719501037901) 2025-07-15 00:07:43 UTC 411.9K followers, 167.8K engagements "He got done watching the birds for the last hour now hes telling me all about what he saw"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1947388152550985816) 2025-07-21 20:08:10 UTC 411.9K followers, 245.8K engagements "@olivierbufole Beautiful shot Mine was captured with a XX newt at 1200mm"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1944913129118556357) 2025-07-15 00:13:19 UTC 411.8K followers, 1327 engagements "Heres a time-lapse of one of my telescopes working the mount its on precisely compensates for Earths rotation allowing me to keep the stars stationary and take repeated long exposures. The deep sky images Im working on take weeks or even months of doing this nightly"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1943691459041145160) 2025-07-11 15:18:50 UTC 411.6K followers, 36.3K engagements "Currently writing an email thats going out to subscribers featuring my latest massive art piece a XXX hour exposure. I call it Above the Rift The email will include a photo with the moon for scale its almost unbelievable the scale of these things Shot with this:"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1947417501589188853) 2025-07-21 22:04:48 UTC 411.9K followers, 28.3K engagements "On Monday I captured 225000 photos of the moon to create this XXX gigabyte composite showing more detail and color depth than usually possible through a telescope. Here's a thread about how it was captured but make sure to load in 4k and zoom in first"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1930328740149768427) 2025-06-04 18:20:10 UTC 411.9K followers, 2.5M engagements "This is a MASSIVE part of the sky spanning XX (or 50x the width of the full moon). I digitally added the full moon at the correct angular scale here just as a demonstration. Do you see it"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1948402482469880135) 2025-07-24 15:18:46 UTC 411.9K followers, 6384 engagements "My assistant helping me put together some components for a telescope project"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945370961320272371) 2025-07-16 06:32:35 UTC 411.9K followers, 68.5K engagements "@OpsoFacto @DieterKief Not if I want to preserve the color contrast and detail. A simulated true color view is possible but that would mesh the sii and Ha signal into the same color and would lose that detail. It also makes for a poorer aesthetic not something I would release in print"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1948780847009858003) 2025-07-25 16:22:15 UTC 411.9K followers, XX engagements "You don't have to live in Florida. If you're anywhere in the Southwestern US you can watch a rocket launch. I was about XXX miles away from the rocket at this point in flight but was able to photograph the rocket's second stage booster and fairing from my backyard"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1946425185097437611) 2025-07-19 04:21:41 UTC 411.9K followers, 26.3K engagements "The photo I'm working on has MILLIONS of visible stars. These monstrous panoramic images are a ton of work but they're soooo satisfying when they finally come together This is just a tiny snippet of it"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1898036369240609258) 2025-03-07 15:41:48 UTC 411.9K followers, 162.9K engagements "Another photo captured using my 8" telescope from Sacramento. The light pollution introduced some color gradients I had to work around but otherwise you can still clearly see the structure of these light-years-wide nebulae. Don't let your circumstances hold you back"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1947348072318611925) 2025-07-21 17:28:55 UTC 411.9K followers, 60.7K engagements "Supernovae are incredibly powerful events that leave behind colorful shapes that expand through space. This is the Crab Nebula a supernova remnant in our own galaxy. The star that exploded was documented by ancient astronomers and was so bright it was visible during the day"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1944209604663292209) 2025-07-13 01:37:46 UTC 411.9K followers, 37.7K engagements "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-lifetime shot I'm thrilled to share with you. See the uncropped shot or get the print in the reply"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1935723657432904131) 2025-06-19 15:37:38 UTC 411.9K followers, 3.6M engagements "My best photo of Saturn Ive captured since getting into this hobby X years ago"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945264614305915005) 2025-07-15 23:29:59 UTC 411.9K followers, 2.8M engagements "I kinda still cant believe capturing photos like this is possible without a space telescope"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1948167365478481971) 2025-07-23 23:44:29 UTC 411.9K followers, 63.2K engagements "Some areas are SUPER dense with stars. some areas more sparse. Some areas you see fewer stars because it's blocked by interstellar dust. See the photo before the rest of the world by joining my email list here:"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1946708849765089347) 2025-07-19 23:08:52 UTC 411.9K followers, 14.8K engagements "I captured the moon in super high resolution every night for a month by driving all over Arizona to stay in good weather. Thanks to libration the result gave a unique 3d look to the craters"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1943741976458715404) 2025-07-11 18:39:34 UTC 411.9K followers, 95.6K engagements "And thats not even the coolest thing Ive captured on Jupiter Want to get into amateur astronomy like this I put together a telescope buying guide you should check out. I send it to new email subscribers you can sign up here:"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945941828886491201) 2025-07-17 20:21:00 UTC 411.9K followers, 16.4K engagements "What do you think is the most underrated sci-fi movie I have a couple hours free tomorrow and Im thinking I want to turn off my brain for a bit"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1867021959844057360) 2024-12-12 01:41:37 UTC 411.8K followers, 474.9K engagements "Heres another one for you. Top: Hubble Middle: JWST Bottom: Me"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1945335238533767218) 2025-07-16 04:10:38 UTC 411.9K followers, 105.1K engagements "I cant believe Ive gone my whole life without seeing a lightning bug how are these things real"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1941689906025099489) 2025-07-06 02:45:23 UTC 411.9K followers, 883K engagements "FYI I shot this from my backyard when I lived in Sacramento. All light pollution did was make the image a bit noisier. You can do this from anywhere in the world that has clear skies where the object is above the horizon"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1947341421465211241) 2025-07-21 17:02:29 UTC 411.9K followers, 30.6K engagements "When I bought my first telescope I assumed photos of galaxies and nebulae required billion dollar space telescopes. I was wrong. Here's X of my favorite deep sky photos since I started this hobby captured with equipment anyone can own"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1943347507880431635) 2025-07-10 16:32:06 UTC 411.9K followers, 440.8K engagements "Throwback to that time I traveled to Utah to sit perfectly in the path of the annular eclipse and snagged this photo when it was perfectly aligned"  [@AJamesMcCarthy](/creator/x/AJamesMcCarthy) on [X](/post/tweet/1943004765404942378) 2025-07-09 17:50:10 UTC 411.9K followers, 273.3K engagements
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"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 telescope"
@AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-06-09 20:44:49 UTC 411.7K followers, 2.9M engagements
"The JWST photo inspired this: a real capture of mine that I edited. The rings arent detectable with my equipment so were added digitally. I used to do art projects like this all the time but have been disheartened when they get stolen and reposted with false captions 😖" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-15 18:10:36 UTC 411.9K followers, 85.2K engagements
"When I first got a telescope it was a bit overwhelming knowing what to get and to have the right kind of expectations as different types of astronomy can have very opposite criteria. For that reason I put together this telescope buying guide:" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-15 23:46:16 UTC 411.9K followers, 78.9K engagements
"The view from my backyard looks like a painting right now" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-15 02:26:48 UTC 411.9K followers, 61K engagements
"@Codebender_Cate @JenniferTilly SpaceX launch out of Vandenberg" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-20 01:49:36 UTC 411.8K followers, XXX engagements
"After spending the last few months capturing it I'm thrilled to share with you my newest artwork my deepest look at the milky way yet. A XXX hour exposure revealing the chaos happening in our skies. I call it "Above the Rift". Here's a short thread about what you're seeing" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-24 15:18:44 UTC 411.9K followers, 207.3K engagements
"This photo gave me a new perspective on how our sky looks and I hope it does the same for you. Get my latest artwork Above the Rift for a short time at the link in my bio" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-24 22:45:10 UTC 411.9K followers, 67.1K engagements
"I need to put something back in this box but he hasnt left it alone for X days" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-12 18:37:55 UTC 411.9K followers, 139.3K engagements
"All the space lovers who follow me watching me slowly devolve into a pet influencer" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-22 17:35:47 UTC 411.9K followers, 60.3K engagements
"If you collect enough photons youll see space is far from empty" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-13 00:18:01 UTC 411.9K followers, 76.1K engagements
"Id go to the moon in a heartbeat but Mars would be a tougher decision with the fastest journey being several months. The missions would be years long. The first people to go to Mars will be some of the bravest" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-20 18:10:58 UTC 411.9K followers, 88K engagements
"@elonmusk sigh I guess Ill take pics of Uranus tonight" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-23 02:27:02 UTC 411.9K followers, 34K engagements
"Last night I used an 11" telescope and two cameras to capture the Strawberry Moon as it hung low in the sky. My goal was to reveal all the hidden color that is too faint for your eyes to see telling the story of the moon's trauma" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-06-11 19:10:21 UTC 411.9K followers, 480.5K engagements
"I just finished my first photo project with this contraption. A XXX hour exposure with close to XXX megapixels. I think youll like it. Give me a week or so to make sure itll work in print and Ill share it with you" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-14 00:47:52 UTC 411.9K followers, 105.7K engagements
"If you love space you should love my Gregory pics. It lets me introduce animal lovers to the wonders of the universe. Getting more people to think beyond our planet helps us all Also tomorrow Im going to be sharing a project Ive been working on for months so stick around :)" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-23 19:07:29 UTC 411.9K followers, 51.7K engagements
"The limited edition fine art print and a full size annotated download will be on this page for a short time: This is the part of the sky I focused on for this piece right at the top of "The Great Rift" where Cygnus is brimming with star-forming nebulae:" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-24 15:18:45 UTC 411.9K followers, 6918 engagements
"@BMohammedl I bet we see crewed Mars missions within 5-7 years depending on if starship reaches its reusability goals. Commercial spaceflight has a lot of inertia right now so even if they dont make it work someone will eventually. Id say permanent home. Moon is the stopover" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-20 18:14:08 UTC 411.6K followers, 1929 engagements
"In my defense it was a super gorgeous sunset" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-17 02:43:37 UTC 411.9K followers, 19.1K engagements
"This was probably my most intense project working every morning and night for X weeks grabbing sleep only when possible. Tomorrow Im sharing a project to my email subscribers that didnt cost me as much sleep but was even more complex" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-22 21:47:30 UTC 411.9K followers, 52.3K engagements
"Id love to get a telescope but I have too much light pollution Heres a photo I captured of Saturn from the roof of a parking garage in the heart of Los Angeles. Light pollution doesnt affect planet shots whatsoever" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-16 23:57:37 UTC 411.9K followers, 259.7K engagements
"This is XXX megapixels by the way. An annotated full size download is available on my website (check my bio) for free if you want to peep it. The download is annotated as a companion to the fine art prints so you can tell people all about your cool new art piece" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-24 15:47:59 UTC 411.9K followers, 30.8K engagements
"Hes disappointed Im working on my cameras instead of giving scritches" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-06-18 20:21:16 UTC 411.9K followers, 239.9K engagements
"Greg is sitting in his box and hallucinating" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-11 15:59:55 UTC 411.9K followers, 189.7K engagements
"Yes its a real photo I captured this with a XX telescope from my backyard. Uranus is actually beautiful to look at through even smaller scopes like the X I recommend in my telescope buying guide:" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-16 17:14:09 UTC 411.9K followers, 22.2K engagements
"I keep seeing my sun footage from this video shared without context so figured Id post it again so you can ask questions to me directly No AI or CGI was used in the creation of this video- just the raw power of the sun and a solar telescope in my backyard" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-08 17:50:01 UTC 411.9K followers, 333K engagements
"Happy Birthday to the only country to ever do this" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-04 16:59:26 UTC 411.9K followers, 1.1M engagements
"Here's a video I put together showing some of my telescopes and the photos they've captured. In order from smallest to largest. the last one is a monster 🤣" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-19 19:53:01 UTC 411.9K followers, 47.5K engagements
"Ever seen Saturn through a telescope Using photos captured through my 14" telescope I tried to overcome the camera's limits to simulate the appearance through the eyepiece as closely as I could. It's one of the most surreal things you'll ever see with your own eyes" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-05-16 19:25:40 UTC 411.9K followers, 126K engagements
"New fine art astrophotography print coming This photo is a TINY excerpt of a nearly XXX megapixel photo Ill be unveiling to you all next week. If you want to see it early join my email list Its linked in my bio and comes with a free telescope buying guide" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-18 02:18:02 UTC 411.9K followers, 29.4K engagements
"Why are you taking photos of the sunset instead of me" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-17 02:42:21 UTC 411.9K followers, 93.5K engagements
"Fixing something on my website really quick and then will be sharing my big project I've been teasing for the last couple weeks" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-24 15:05:56 UTC 411.9K followers, 16.2K engagements
"@zwartgeleridder If its any consolation I post far more often now several space posts a day (used to be one a day). So yes I shove greggers down your throat but I balance it with the stars" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-22 17:41:11 UTC 411.9K followers, 1173 engagements
"Its always Why does that cat account I follow post so many space pics and never When is Gregory getting a nebula named after him First box-shaped nebula I discover is all yours buddy 🫡" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-18 01:41:28 UTC 411.9K followers, 118.8K engagements
"@Tony86413767 That's 16" I thought the 300P was 12" No wonder it looks so awesome lol" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-16 20:31:20 UTC 411.9K followers, XXX engagements
"Happening right now: The moon is drifting past Mars. Look up This was captured just a moment ago with a 12" telescope" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-06-30 02:30:19 UTC 411.7K followers, 102.8K engagements
"I put together this little video with behind the scenes of my latest ISS transit shot. You can see how it looked live through the telescopes (real time speed is NUTS) vs after the processed image. These are so rewarding to capture 🤓" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-06-20 18:43:07 UTC 411.9K followers, 134.4K engagements
"Take some time to enjoy the sunset tonight" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-23 02:28:21 UTC 411.9K followers, 28.8K engagements
"I call this piece "Kardashev Dreams" as it represents the humble beginnings as our civilization grows I released it in two versions: This one and one that's an uncropped panorama you can see on my website here: Prints available for a short time" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-06-19 15:39:54 UTC 411.9K followers, 212.1K engagements
"My shot of the 2025 Buck moon captured less than an hour ago as it rose over my neighbor's house" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-11 05:29:17 UTC 411.9K followers, 180.1K engagements
"Remember that time we had a lunar eclipse near the Pleiades That was awesome" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-09 23:02:04 UTC 411.9K followers, 74.6K engagements
"Last night I used X 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 was projected onto the surface See the full res crop or get a print in the reply to this post" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-03-14 18:49:12 UTC 411.9K followers, 18M engagements
"Beautiful launch tonight out of Vandenberg. Despite the rocket being over the Pacific here I was able to see it in Arizona" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-19 04:02:26 UTC 411.9K followers, 43.5K engagements
"Neil Armstrong held the most optimistic views of the first mission estimating a XX% chance of survival. Russian roulette has worse odds but not by much. Some official estimates put the chance of success at 5%" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-20 17:40:39 UTC 411.9K followers, 27.9K engagements
"Hard to imagine a greater purpose than extending humanitys explored frontiers beyond Earth. I would go to the moon in a heartbeat if given the opportunity. Would you" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-20 17:36:10 UTC 411.9K followers, 87.8K engagements
"My telescope malfunctioned and made it look like the stars are actually little harps 🫶" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-05-19 04:29:33 UTC 411.9K followers, 71.5K engagements
"Idk why this was requested so much but here it is: my best photo of Uranus" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-16 16:30:47 UTC 411.9K followers, 288.5K engagements
"My planet photos are thousands of individual photos stacked. Heres how it looks during the capture process. If you want to learn how to get into this hobby right now Im sending people my telescope buying guide for free when they join my email list:" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-17 00:40:09 UTC 411.9K followers, 24.4K engagements
"Update: completely passed out in the trash" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-11 17:23:10 UTC 411.9K followers, 252.7K engagements
"Im going to shamelessly use the popularity of my cat to promote my upcoming print release which I cant show you quite yet but its FILLED with vibrant nebulae. You can join my email list if you want to see it early" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-18 02:02:11 UTC 411.9K followers, 18.1K engagements
"If you haven't already strongly recommend reading this book. I'm sure the film will be good but hard to imagine competing with the experience of reading this book for the first time" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-06-29 20:29:09 UTC 411.9K followers, 740K engagements
"@danielleRoyalKC Travel at light speed for XXX million years (the trip would feel instant)" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-22 02:07:37 UTC 411.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Bonus shot from my latest capture of the ISS transiting the sun: One of the captured frames sat right on the limb against these background prominences. The ISS is so iconic I'm going to miss it when it's gone" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-06-30 18:54:38 UTC 411.9K followers, 435.6K engagements
"I pushed my 8" telescope to the absolute limits to peer deep into the shockwave of a supernova. The image revealed a chaotic tangle of ionized hydrogen and oxygen still expanding through space 8000 years after the star erupted. You'll see more of this in a few days :)" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-20 21:59:18 UTC 411.9K followers, 157.9K engagements
"The Gregposting will continue until morale improves" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-06-28 01:52:16 UTC 411.9K followers, 141.5K engagements
"Was going through some old photos and found this fun one I put together in early 2019 not long after I got into this hobby. At the time I was getting creative with my lunar photos and put X of them together in one composite" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-07 22:44:00 UTC 411.8K followers, 27.7K engagements
"Ive shared my best photos of Saturn and Uranus and now this is my best photo of Mars. Captured in 2022 during a really nice opposition with a XX telescope from my backyard. It doesnt seem so far through a big telescope" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-16 20:08:53 UTC 411.9K followers, 143.8K engagements
"Top: How Gregory sleeps Bottom: How Gregory sleeps when Im vacuuming" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-16 23:48:07 UTC 411.9K followers, 57.4K engagements
"@MSmith457 I use an equatorial mount that compensates for Earths rotation and the exposures are cumulative over many nights" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-24 15:58:20 UTC 411.9K followers, 2174 engagements
"@DieterKief This part of space is super colorful Naturally its a bit less yellow and more red the yellow comes from the optical filters used. I almost never add color to my work its only done on solar photography since its single channel" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-24 16:04:02 UTC 411.9K followers, 1851 engagements
"On my best photo of Jupiter you can see some the surface detail on its largest moon: Ganymede Absolutely incredible whats possible with backyard scopes these days" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-17 19:29:11 UTC 411.9K followers, 137.7K engagements
"I know I don't do a good job advertising it but the raw data from this and many other deep sky shots is available as a perk on patreon. It's my same username if you're interested I like giving people a feel for the image processing side of things as its my favorite part" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-21 20:31:59 UTC 411.9K followers, 29.6K engagements
"I extracted just the stars from the photo I'm sharing next week and ran a script to count them. There's nearly a million detectible stars in the image. So much to look at" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-19 23:06:39 UTC 411.9K followers, 27.4K engagements
"This is a photo of the solar chromosphere part if the suns atmosphere. Its captured by using a telescope modified to safely view a very narrow part of the visible light spectrum without melting my camera. I wrote an article about these sun shots here:" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-18 23:52:08 UTC 411.9K followers, 23.3K engagements
"Top: Hubble (16 Billion) Middle: JWST (10 Billion) Bottom: me ($2k)" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-15 17:54:07 UTC 411.9K followers, 454.7K engagements
"FYI every photo I share is captured by me unless explicitly stated otherwise Most are from my backyard and all are captured using off-the-shelf consumer equipment This one was captured using a telescope I found used for just $XXX formatted as a mobile wallpaper for you to use" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-15 00:07:43 UTC 411.9K followers, 167.8K engagements
"He got done watching the birds for the last hour now hes telling me all about what he saw" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-21 20:08:10 UTC 411.9K followers, 245.8K engagements
"@olivierbufole Beautiful shot Mine was captured with a XX newt at 1200mm" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-15 00:13:19 UTC 411.8K followers, 1327 engagements
"Heres a time-lapse of one of my telescopes working the mount its on precisely compensates for Earths rotation allowing me to keep the stars stationary and take repeated long exposures. The deep sky images Im working on take weeks or even months of doing this nightly" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-11 15:18:50 UTC 411.6K followers, 36.3K engagements
"Currently writing an email thats going out to subscribers featuring my latest massive art piece a XXX hour exposure. I call it Above the Rift The email will include a photo with the moon for scale its almost unbelievable the scale of these things Shot with this:" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-21 22:04:48 UTC 411.9K followers, 28.3K engagements
"On Monday I captured 225000 photos of the moon to create this XXX gigabyte composite showing more detail and color depth than usually possible through a telescope. Here's a thread about how it was captured but make sure to load in 4k and zoom in first" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-06-04 18:20:10 UTC 411.9K followers, 2.5M engagements
"This is a MASSIVE part of the sky spanning XX (or 50x the width of the full moon). I digitally added the full moon at the correct angular scale here just as a demonstration. Do you see it" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-24 15:18:46 UTC 411.9K followers, 6384 engagements
"My assistant helping me put together some components for a telescope project" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-16 06:32:35 UTC 411.9K followers, 68.5K engagements
"@OpsoFacto @DieterKief Not if I want to preserve the color contrast and detail. A simulated true color view is possible but that would mesh the sii and Ha signal into the same color and would lose that detail. It also makes for a poorer aesthetic not something I would release in print" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-25 16:22:15 UTC 411.9K followers, XX engagements
"You don't have to live in Florida. If you're anywhere in the Southwestern US you can watch a rocket launch. I was about XXX miles away from the rocket at this point in flight but was able to photograph the rocket's second stage booster and fairing from my backyard" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-19 04:21:41 UTC 411.9K followers, 26.3K engagements
"The photo I'm working on has MILLIONS of visible stars. These monstrous panoramic images are a ton of work but they're soooo satisfying when they finally come together This is just a tiny snippet of it" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-03-07 15:41:48 UTC 411.9K followers, 162.9K engagements
"Another photo captured using my 8" telescope from Sacramento. The light pollution introduced some color gradients I had to work around but otherwise you can still clearly see the structure of these light-years-wide nebulae. Don't let your circumstances hold you back" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-21 17:28:55 UTC 411.9K followers, 60.7K engagements
"Supernovae are incredibly powerful events that leave behind colorful shapes that expand through space. This is the Crab Nebula a supernova remnant in our own galaxy. The star that exploded was documented by ancient astronomers and was so bright it was visible during the day" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-13 01:37:46 UTC 411.9K followers, 37.7K engagements
"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-lifetime shot I'm thrilled to share with you. See the uncropped shot or get the print in the reply" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-06-19 15:37:38 UTC 411.9K followers, 3.6M engagements
"My best photo of Saturn Ive captured since getting into this hobby X years ago" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-15 23:29:59 UTC 411.9K followers, 2.8M engagements
"I kinda still cant believe capturing photos like this is possible without a space telescope" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-23 23:44:29 UTC 411.9K followers, 63.2K engagements
"Some areas are SUPER dense with stars. some areas more sparse. Some areas you see fewer stars because it's blocked by interstellar dust. See the photo before the rest of the world by joining my email list here:" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-19 23:08:52 UTC 411.9K followers, 14.8K engagements
"I captured the moon in super high resolution every night for a month by driving all over Arizona to stay in good weather. Thanks to libration the result gave a unique 3d look to the craters" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-11 18:39:34 UTC 411.9K followers, 95.6K engagements
"And thats not even the coolest thing Ive captured on Jupiter Want to get into amateur astronomy like this I put together a telescope buying guide you should check out. I send it to new email subscribers you can sign up here:" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-17 20:21:00 UTC 411.9K followers, 16.4K engagements
"What do you think is the most underrated sci-fi movie I have a couple hours free tomorrow and Im thinking I want to turn off my brain for a bit" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2024-12-12 01:41:37 UTC 411.8K followers, 474.9K engagements
"Heres another one for you. Top: Hubble Middle: JWST Bottom: Me" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-16 04:10:38 UTC 411.9K followers, 105.1K engagements
"I cant believe Ive gone my whole life without seeing a lightning bug how are these things real" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-06 02:45:23 UTC 411.9K followers, 883K engagements
"FYI I shot this from my backyard when I lived in Sacramento. All light pollution did was make the image a bit noisier. You can do this from anywhere in the world that has clear skies where the object is above the horizon" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-21 17:02:29 UTC 411.9K followers, 30.6K engagements
"When I bought my first telescope I assumed photos of galaxies and nebulae required billion dollar space telescopes. I was wrong. Here's X of my favorite deep sky photos since I started this hobby captured with equipment anyone can own" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-10 16:32:06 UTC 411.9K followers, 440.8K engagements
"Throwback to that time I traveled to Utah to sit perfectly in the path of the annular eclipse and snagged this photo when it was perfectly aligned" @AJamesMcCarthy on X 2025-07-09 17:50:10 UTC 411.9K followers, 273.3K engagements