r/telescopes. The home to all amateur astronomers & telescopes! Feel free to discuss anything astronomical here, from what sort of telescope you should get, stargazing tips and tricks, to how to use that scope of yours that's been sitting around! Astrophotography is permitted as well, but feel free to check out /r/astrophotography for more of that. If you're looking for your first telescope, please read the stickied post and check out the review/buying guide links in the sidebar before posting.
265.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 9.2K upvotes, which works out to 35 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
My boyfriend built a rideable 2-seater telescope (binoscope) from scratch
I saw Uranus last night
Caught the ISS
Abandoned Observatory w/ Celestron 16 at my university, what should I do?
Picked this up for free at my local dump
Moon 08/01/25
I went to buy a tractor and the guy threw this with the deal
Even the best SciFi shows get it wrong...
why have we never taken one to the moon? A telescope?
Took my scope to my kids' school. First time seeing Saturn for everyone there :)
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
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