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r/telescopes

262.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.9K upvotes, which works out to 7 per 1,000 members.

7peak upvotes per 1,000 members
262.5Kmembers
1.9Kbest post
493most comments
46posts we track

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What actually lands here

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.

54% 24% 11% 9%
Image 54% Gallery 24% Video 11% Text 9% Question 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Astronomical Image 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Saturnian System

↑ 1.9K 💬 42 image 2026

Saturn

↑ 1.4K 💬 56 image 2026

Beginner's Quick Guide to choosing your first telescope (Updated for 2023)

↑ 1.2K 💬 493 text 2022

Neptune

↑ 894 💬 31 image 2026

Best money spent ever

↑ 834 💬 59 video 2026

Saturn

↑ 817 💬 30 gallery 2026

Lunar occultation of Venus

↑ 796 💬 12 image 2026

Saturn at 600X magnification

↑ 787 💬 32 video 2026

I'm in love.

↑ 764 💬 67 image 2026

Moon

↑ 737 💬 30 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/telescopes, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.