HASHTAGS/#astrophotography

#astrophotography

The most viral posts using #astrophotography across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and Pinterest — ranked by real engagement tracked by ViralHunt.

2.8Kposts tracked
21.2Mtotal engagement
4networks

We track 2783 posts using #astrophotography across 4 networks, carrying 21.2M engagement between them — an average of 7.6K per post.

It is used most on Bluesky: 1490 of the 2783 posts we hold, 54% of the total.

Where it performs hardest per post, though, is TikTok, averaging 123.1K — so the tag is posted most in one place and lands best in another, which is exactly the difference worth knowing before choosing where to use it.

Ranking comes from the posts themselves rather than from how often the tag appears, and it is recalculated as new posts are collected. How we measure this →

Top #astrophotography posts ALL NETWORKS

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Extended Version of My Telescope vs NASA! 🔭 These images were taken with my Celestron C11, Celestron 6SE and Seestar S30 Pro Telescope! I hope you e
@kennyscosmos · Instagram
3.2M
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That’s not a close-up of a carpet. ☀️ What you’re seeing is a "hairy" view of the Sun’s chromosphere. The dark voids are Sunspots—magnetic knots larg
@astronaut_from_mars · Instagram
2.5M
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Black holes might be useful for getting rid of garbage or even some of one’s friends. —Stephen Hawking Tag someone who loves space and black hole. Fo
@astrouzzam · Instagram
1.4M
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The Sun Releases Massive Energy! Seen Through My Telescope #astronomy #space #spacefacts Earth receives more energy from the Sun in an hour than huma
@dudelovesspace · Instagram
1.2M
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I pointed my telescope at the largest confirmed black hole TON 618. It’s over 18 billion light years away, farther than the age of the universe 😬 #ast
@real_astrophotography · Instagram
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Most viral #astrophotography on Bluesky

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Went out this morning to take pics of the moon, but got Orion instead! #sky #nature #photography #trees #astrophotography #nokings #love
@menestune.bsky.social · Bluesky
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A blast from the past and then I'm out for a few days. Taken along the coast of North Florida. I'll be posting again sometime this weekend. Cheers! #p
@msriffle.bsky.social · Bluesky
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The Rosette Nebula is a cloud of cosmic dust and gas. The open star cluster NGC 2244 sits at its center; the hot, young stars ionize its gas, supercha
@joegarrity.bsky.social · Bluesky
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I captured the Andromeda Galaxy with an 8-hour integration time using my Askar FRA500 telescope, ASI2600MC Duo camera, and ZWO AM5N mount. High-resolu
@joegarrity.bsky.social · Bluesky
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The Dolphin Head Nebula is bubble-shaped and encompasses a Wolf–Rayet star. These stars are extremely large, hot, and bright. It's in a pre-supernova
@joegarrity.bsky.social · Bluesky
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Most viral #astrophotography on Instagram

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Extended Version of My Telescope vs NASA! 🔭 These images were taken with my Celestron C11, Celestron 6SE and Seestar S30 Pro Telescope! I hope you e
@kennyscosmos · Instagram
3.2M
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That’s not a close-up of a carpet. ☀️ What you’re seeing is a "hairy" view of the Sun’s chromosphere. The dark voids are Sunspots—magnetic knots larg
@astronaut_from_mars · Instagram
2.5M
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Black holes might be useful for getting rid of garbage or even some of one’s friends. —Stephen Hawking Tag someone who loves space and black hole. Fo
@astrouzzam · Instagram
1.4M
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The Sun Releases Massive Energy! Seen Through My Telescope #astronomy #space #spacefacts Earth receives more energy from the Sun in an hour than huma
@dudelovesspace · Instagram
1.2M
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I pointed my telescope at the largest confirmed black hole TON 618. It’s over 18 billion light years away, farther than the age of the universe 😬 #ast
@real_astrophotography · Instagram
828.8K
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Most viral #astrophotography on TikTok

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Space is the best way to cope #love #space #astronomy #astrophotography #fyp
@astrotronomer · TikTok
524.5K
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‹𝟑 .ᐟ #ASTRONOMY : no wm 🥀 // #space #universe #edit #astro #astrophile #astrophotography #viral #fyp #fypage #foryou #astronomytok #spacetok #science
@meowilay · TikTok
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Spectacular plasma structures on the sun. captured with Simon2940's telescope. #sunobservation #sun #space #solarflare #telescope #astrophotography #n
@leakedghostv2 · TikTok
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Might be a little corny but tbh space is everything for me #love #space #astronomy #astrophotography ##fyp(yes I did post this video before this is ju
@sunny_salas2 · TikTok
380.1K
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WHAT on EARTH is THIS?!?! #astronomy #UFO #ALIENS #stargazing #astrophotography #space #stem #telescope
@damonscotting · TikTok
360K
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Most viral #astrophotography on Mastodon

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It’s full of…#stars. #photography #nightphotography #nightsky #ChristmasEve #astrophotography #SilentNight
@Trilobyter · Mastodon
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The crescent moon and Mercury in the evening sky as seen from the mountains of New Mexico. #NewMexico #Moon #Crescent #Mercury #Photography #Astrophot
@KrajciTom · Mastodon
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Berufjörður in eastern Iceland, 9pm in early November. Canon EOS 6D MkII, ISO-6400, f/4.5, 4 sec. exposure. #AuroraTuesday #NorthernLights #aurora #Au
@mo · Mastodon
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Goodnight, moon. #lunarEclipse #eclipse #astrophotography #astronomy #dlws
@subtractum · Mastodon
101
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This object is one of the three BlackGEM telescopes hosted at our La Silla Observatory. Its mission? To help detectors such as LIGO and Virgo to pinpo
@esoastronomy · Mastodon
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#astrophotography in five questions

What is #astrophotography and where is it used?

A hashtag with 2.8K posts tracked by ViralHunt across 4 networks, mostly on Bluesky (1.5K posts). Those posts add up to 21.2M engagement, about 7.6K per post.

Where does #astrophotography perform best?

On TikTok: 123.1K engagement per post on average, even though it is posted more on Bluesky. It is used in one place and works better in another.

When do people post with #astrophotography?

Mostly on Sundays, around 17:00 UTC: 23% of the 2.8K dated posts fall in the three hours around that time. Posting when the tag is active is posting when someone is reading it.

Who uses #astrophotography most?

itscosmoknowledge (Instagram, 1178 posts), davidbflower.bsky.social (Bluesky, 162 posts), astrobin.com (Bluesky, 61 posts), peterlewis55.bsky.social (Bluesky, 51 posts), wildernessvagabonds.com (Bluesky, 45 posts), science (Instagram, 10 posts).

Which hashtags go with #astrophotography?

Other tags with volume on the same networks: #nzpol, #cdnpoli, #birds, #eck, #digitalart, #booksky.

When people post with #astrophotography

Hour of day and day of the week of the 2.8K dated posts carrying this tag (times in UTC). The busiest hour and day are marked.

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