Justin Shekoski

“Dark Side of the Moon, In Colour” Taken by @astro_reid, processed by me. These colors weren’t added — they were revealed by stacking hundreds of Artemis II burst images of the Moon’s far side. Blue titanium. Orange iron. A side of the Moon eyes have truly never seen before.

Today’s Sun | May 9, 2026 40-minute hydrogen-alpha timelapse captured from my backyard. Massive prominences erupt from the solar limb while sunspots larger than Earth drift across the surface. What looks calm from 93 million miles away is actually magnetic turbulence & plasma!

“Perfect” | 6h • April 2026 They say the universe is chaos. Then there’s the Sombrero Galaxy (M104)—almost impossibly refined. ~31 million light-years away. A ~1B solar-mass black hole at its core. I wonder if something out there is looking back. #astrophotography

@AJamesMcCarthy I wanna go!!!

Apparently Starship has a launch window that opens May 12th... Looks like I'm not quite done shooting giant rockets yet!

@AJamesMcCarthy How the heck did you get it to track?

Here’s a stabilized live view of the ISS through my telescope and the photo I made from stacking the image frames. The hardest part was getting my telescope to track it smoothly as it whizzed through the sky

‘In the Air Tonight’ | 4.24.2026 The Moon, last night, taken from my backyard. Built from thousands of stacked exposures, it reveals a hidden palette, beyond human vision. It’s warm oranges & browns trace iron oxidation, while cool blues map titanium regions in the lunar soil.

@AJamesMcCarthy @johnkrausphotos Dude, yesterday, I showed your photo to a friend at work and I said these exact words… “One day I’ll take a photo like this.” Thank you for the endless inspiration.

This photo has a very personal meaning for me if you care to read it. I saw a photo from @johnkrausphotos on reddit nearly a decade ago of the engines on a Falcon Heavy launch. I was working at a tough sales job at the time. The shot inspired me to learn more about space and spaceflight. Shortly after, I bought my first telescope. I saw Jupiter, Saturn, and Nebulae, and started social media accounts where I shared my amateur photos. Then I was laid off, and Covid happened. Moved from Sacramento to Arizona for clearer skies, cheaper cost of living, and a chance to go all-in on space photography. My audience started to grow. Then, NASA contacted me, asking me if they could use some of my moon photos for something called Artemis. I said yes. During the Artemis I rollout my DMs blew up “Andrew- your photo is on the Mobile Launch Platform!”. Now I knew that astrophotography wasn’t enough… I should probably pay attention to spaceflight. I spent a lot coming out to the first launch attempt, which would be my first rocket launch if it flew. Sadly, it was a scrub. I came home from Florida, sharing my stories of touring the VAB and facilities with my grandfather, who worked on Apollo. He passed shortly after, which affected my ability to return to watch the SLS flew. Feeling bummed out, I focused back on my deep sky work, but then I started hearing about something called “Starship”. I caught a video from @Erdayastronaut where a rocket ship fell through the air belly-first and flipped upright and landed. Inspired, I knew I had to witness one of these machines fly, so I flew to Starbase the moment I could afford it, which was for the second fully integrated flight test. The moment Starship lifted off the pad, I was hooked. There was nothing quite like the experience. I did everything I could to catch every launch I could, and worked to become credentialed media to get better access. Last year I flew from Arizona to Florida & Texas over a dozen times specifically to sharpen my launch photography skills with our first human spaceflight to the moon in over 50 years looming. A decade of preparation for a split second moment. When I picked up my camera from the launch pad yesterday morning and peeked at what was captured, I knew it was all worth it. Thank you, NASA, Artemis, and the all people who inspired me along the way. This is still only the beginning.

@ChickfilA please stop putting my receipt directly on top of my fries. Please.

@awoodshreds Amen. Incredible!

I love to see this. Ed, you’re doing the lords work. Make this permanent.

@rylandsgrace Is this more true for a combustion engine or for an electric vehicle? 🤔

walked out of phm and this car was parked next to me 🥺

@AJamesMcCarthy I loved it!

Project Hail Mary was amazing No spoilers, just …yes.

@Thebestfigen This. 🫡❤️

A teacher told the shyest student in the class that if he pulled out a blank sheet of paper, he would give everyone a perfect score on the exam. What the students didn't know was that both sheets of paper were blank. The teacher wanted to include him, and he succeeded.

@EYakoby A war crime? Can you guys attack and kill the Iranian leader? Fuck your “war crimes.”

BREAKING: There is growing suspicion that Iran used cluster munitions in their attacks against Israel. A clear war crime.

@bhudzietz @RepNancyMace Amen.

@RepNancyMace ZERO US soldiers should die fighting for this stupid ass war.

Three American heroes were killed during Operation Epic Fury. Five more seriously wounded. We will NEVER forget the price they paid defending our great nation. Praying for our troops and their families. God bless each and every one of them. 🇺🇸

@sciencegirl Fuck this guy.

Will Smith acting and operating the camera at the same time is peak

@AJamesMcCarthy @starfront_obs Glorious!!! do you think I could fit a 135 and a red cat 61 on a single AM5? I would really love to get a rig out to Starfront!

@JustinShekoski @starfront_obs Yup. 135 aps-c

Here’s a single 3 min unedited exposure captured just now using a monochrome camera I have At @starfront_obs in TX. Monochrome cameras are great for nebulae as they allow me to more precisely isolate the emissions, but means I need to shoot with different filters for color.

@AJamesMcCarthy This is RAD!!!

Mercury clearing the limb of the moon, captured just a moment ago from Texas

@washghost1 This is hilarious.

These people vote

@AJamesMcCarthy Yessssss!!!!! This is incredible!

One of my proudest achievements: having a photo I took floating in the ISS cupola overlooking Earth