Channel
@desertastro
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
190subscribers
+9 since we began measuring on 9 September 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1003113621629 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @desertastro |
| Created | Between 1 September 2025 and 30 November 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 9 September 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 4 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 4 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/desertastro |
Art & design — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 4 October 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 91% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026, 04:37 | 190 | +7 |
| 19 Sept 2026, 12:16 | 183 | +2 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 20:22 | 181 | no change |
| 9 Sept 2026, 19:47 | 181 | first reading |
17 posts held, back to 27 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 17 posts for this entry, the most recent from 9 September 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
103 reactions across 16 posts, in 6 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 38.8% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤🔥 | 40 | 38.8% | |
| 👍 | 19 | 18.4% | |
| ❤ | 18 | 17.5% | |
| 🔥 | 15 | 14.6% | |
| 🤩 | 10 | 9.71% | |
| 👏 | 1 | 0.971% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 16 of the 17 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 103 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 17 most recent posts we hold, published 27 July 2026 to 9 September 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
This is NGC7331 and supernova recently exploded in this galaxy. I added some time to image which was taken in August. Mount: PlaneWave L-350 Telescope: PlaneWave CDK14", 356mm/2563mm Camera: Moravian C3-61000 Mono Filters: Antlia 7 filter set, 50mm round, 3nm for SHO Location: USA, Texas, Prairie Skies Astro Observatories Total Exposure: 27 hours 10 minutes Pallet: LRGB https://t.me/desertastro, www.desertastro.net
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This is IC410, the Tadpole Nebula. I have started collecting data for this narrow band target. This is less than 3 hours of total exposure time. I tried to see how it would look like. This is a nebula in the constellation Auriga, 12,000 light years from Earth. Mount: PlaneWave L-350 Telescope: PlaneWave CDK14", 356mm/2563mm Camera: Moravian C3-61000 Mono Filters: Antlia 7 filter set, 50mm round, 3nm for SHO Location:…
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This is NGC6995, the Eastern part of the Veil Nebula. This is SHO updated and HOO pallets. I made SHO pallet less blue, I hope it is more balanced now. Mount: PlaneWave L-350 Telescope: PlaneWave CDK14", 356mm/2563mm Camera: Moravian C3-61000 Mono Filters: Antlia 7 filter set, 50mm round, 3nm for SHO Location: USA, Texas, Prairie Skies Astro Observatories Total Exposure: 23 hours 33 min 30 seconds in 300 sec exposure…
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This is NGC6992, now in SHO pallet. Mount: PlaneWave L-350 Telescope: PlaneWave CDK14", 356mm/2563mm Camera: Moravian C3-61000 Mono Filters: Antlia 7 filter set, 50mm round, 3nm for SHO Location: USA, Texas, Prairie Skies Astro Observatories Total Exposure: 23 hours 33 minutes 30 sec in 300 second and 90 second exposures Pallet: SHO https://t.me/desertastro, www.desertastro.net
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This is NGC6992, East part of the Veil Nebula. I did not do a good job with framing of the image. I accumulated two nights of data before I realized the issue. This is Foraxx pallet and I will do some others as well. The nebula is located in about 2,100-2,400 light years away from Earth. The entire nebula is about 110 light years in diameter. Mount: PlaneWave L-350 Telescope: PlaneWave CDK14", 356mm/2563mm Camera: Mo…
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This is M9, globular star cluster. In the upper left corner there are two dark nebulae: LDN175 and Barnard 64. This is an auxiliary target as I collect it to fill in times between other targets. Mount: PlaneWave L-350 Telescope: PlaneWave CDK14", 356mm/2563mm Camera: Moravian C3-61000 Mono Filters: Antlia 7 filter set, 50mm round, 3nm for SHO Location: USA, Texas, Prairie Skies Astro Observatories Total Exposure: 2 h…
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This is NGC7027, the Jewel Bug Nebula. This is a very small planetary nebula in the constellation Cygnus. Its size is only 12"X16" seconds. It is about 150 times less that the size of the Moon. My telescope looked at it as a star and created diffraction spikes. The size is not the only problem though... This nebula is extremely bright. It is so bright that the exposure time of you subs should be just few seconds. I u…
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This is two objects: Stephane's Quintet- NGC7320 for just one galaxy, and the other galaxy- NGC7331. This galaxy NGC7331 is located 40-45 million light years away from Earth. These objects are located in the constellation Pegasus. Also, you can see a number of beautiful galaxies in this image. I chose this kind of framing to include these two beautiful targets. Mount: PlaneWave L-350 Telescope: PlaneWave CDK14", 356…
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I tried to make use of all the images that I made while catching meteors. This is a small video. I have no skills in doing videos.
This is my continues work on the meteors. I got some comments that my meteors look like satellites, because they have not retained colors. I tried to fix that . Also, I aligned the images by stars in hope it looks more like radiant streaks. I hope you like this work.
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I updated how the meteors look like. I got a message saying that meteors do not have color and it looks like satellites. Now I tried to correct it. Tell me if I have not improved the image.
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This is my processing of the Perseids meteor show data taken in the night Aug 12-13. In total 496 images were taken and 41 were selected containing meteors. The location: the Double Faced Rock, north from the city of Urayarah, Saudi Arabia. Processing was done done in PhotoShop. Camera: Sony a7RV, Lens: Sigma 14mm F/1.4, https://t.me/desertastro, www.desertastro.net
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Showing the 12 most recent of 17 posts we hold for @desertastro. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 4 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Desertastro- Astrophotography” (@desertastro), 190 subscribers as measured 4 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/desertastro.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.