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A breathtaking capture of the night sky, showcasing remarkable detail, depth, and true astrophotography excellence.

Imager: Mujtaba Hussain Shah

Description: One night under the silent stars of the Salt Range, three nights fighting the glow of Lahore, and a long haul up the GT Road in between. This is Sh2-308, better known as the Dolphin Head Nebula, a massive bubble of gas blown by a dying Wolf-Rayet star. It glows so strongly in ionized oxygen (OIII), the dark skies of Tilla Jogian were the perfect choice to pull out that ethereal blue "skin" of the dolphin.

Technique: After returning, I added three nights of Ha data from Lahore to finish the image using HOO palette. 

Equipment: Image shot with ZWO ASI533MM Pro deep-sky monochrome camera cooled at -10C paired with William Optics Gran Turismo 71 APO on a ZWO AM5N Harmonic Drive Equatorial Mount. Filters: ZWO Narrowband filters

Location: Tilla Jogian & Lahore - Pakistan

Dates: February 2026

Imager: Shoaib Usman Bandey

Description: Planet Jupiter with one of its Moon IO transiting in the night of January 9, 2026 near opposition.

Technique: 1 minute video files taken in Sharpcap, Processed in PIPP, AS4, Winjupos, Regis tax and PS.

Equipment: Celestron SCT 8", Camera : ZWO ASI224 MC Celestron 2x Barlow Mount: ZWO AM5N6

Technique: 1 minute video files taken in Sharpcap, Processed in PIPP, AS4, Winjupos, Regis tax and PS.

Location: Lahore - Pakistan

Image By: Dr. Suhaib Ahmed

This mystical beauty of Elephant Trunk Nebula in Cephus Constellation has been awarded as the first ever Image of The Month for Sky Deep Moments.

Dr. Suhaib Ahmed is a seasoned Astrophotographer who has shown his passion growing within very short period of time.

Reward: Thank you Dr. Suhaib Ahmed for showing up the world this great Image of yours with extraordinary sharpness and details. Sky Deep is proudly presenting you a ZWO Dual Band 1.25" Filter that is used with ZWO Cooled Color Cameras.

Image by: Muhammad Ibraheem

Description: This is a unique rendition of Orion Molecular Complex where dense regions of Halpha shine in full glory. Image is not fully visible due to website constraint here but still showing up its beauty and chaos in Ha+RGB The image has total integration time of 13 hours 7 hours of Ha 6 hours of RGB data. Processed with DSS/Pixinsight/Photoshop.

Equipment: Canon 60D DIY modified / Samyang 135mm F2 lens / iOptron Skyguider Pro tracker / Optolong L-eNhance filter by Sky Deep Co.

Location: Jhelum, Pakistan
Date: December 22-23, 2025

Image by: Muhammad Ibraheem

Description: The Horse Head Nebula & Flame Nebula are part of large Orion Complex. The image has total integration time of 13 hours.
Equipment: Seestar S30

Location: Tilla Jogian, Pakistan
Date: February, 2026

Image By: Roshaan Nadeem

This Rarest Moment on Sun is showing how violent and active our STAR the Sustainer is. Solar Flares visible here are much larger than size of Earth.

Data Acquisition: Sharpcap
Processing: AS3 (stacking), IMPPG (sharpening), Photoshop (false coloring)

Dates: 10th January, 20th January, 21st January 2026
Location: Islamabad-Pakistan

Image By: Muhammad Ibraheem

This mesmerizing wide-field Image covering M45 The Pleaides to NGC 1499 California Nebula taken by an unmoded DSLR Camera and modest IOptron Tracker is proven to be beating all the high grade Equipment and could easily have been a winner.

Muhammad Ibraheem is a young Astrophotographer wandering under the wilderness of dark skies to catch vast areas of Skies with his modest Equipment showing zeal and courage to beat all the odds.

Reward: Thank you @Ibraheem for showcasing your extraordinary work here. We proudly present you an Optolong Clip-in Dual Band Filter from Sky Deep Co. to fit over the sensor of your DSLR and bring out more hidden gems from Dark Skies.

Image by: Roshaan Nadeem

Description: A sudden surge in the Solar activity was captured at IST Observatory during one hour of Video Imaging.

Equipment: Lunt Halpha Specialized Telescoe on Celestron CGX Mount
Location: Islamabad

Date: November 4th week, 2025

Image by: Dr. Suhaib Ahmed

Description: Ths tunning image of M51 is merger of two galaxies and in this frame you can see multiple Galaxies in background. The processing of image is so well done that normally these back ground galaxies and faint dust around M51 is washed away but Dr. Suhaib has preserved it beautifully.

Equipment: Celestron C11, ZWO 294mm pro, ASIair+ ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF, Mini-guide, 224mc, ZWO AM5, Antlia LRGB & Ha filters, Total integration of 8 hours. Software: PixInsight

Location: Westridge-1, Rawalpindi 
Date: May, 2025

Image by: Shoaib Usman Banday

Description: He specially travelled to a dark sky in November to catch the jewel of Night sky the famous Pleaides Cluster aka Seven Sisters, Main data of Luminance Channel was captured in Chakri whole night through whereas RGB data collected in Lahore so it became a combo of Dark skies and light polluted skies. His craftmanship is such to stack the two and bring out this beauty. Data Taken from :Chakri , L channel , 300s x 62Lahore, RGB , 60s x 40 each

Equipment: ZWO AM5N, ZWO ASI1600mmPro, ZWO LRGB, ZWO ASIAIR Pro, ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF, ZWO 120mm mini Guidecam Astrotech At60Ed Scope

Location: Chakri, Lahore
Date: November 23rd, 2025

Image by: Mujtaba Hussain Shah

Description: Drifting in the galactic tide, this celestial jewellery (NGC 1501), also known as the Oyster Nebula, is a complex planetary nebula, located roughly 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. The intricate, translucent beauty of the Oyster Nebula isn't a place where stars are born, but rather where one is fading away. He processed this celestial opal in a classic HOO palette to emphasize the structural contrast between the hot Oxygen core and the surrounding Hydrogen. At the center lies a pulsating "Wolf-Rayet" star that is shedding its outer layers into space, creating these intricate, bubble-like shells of gas. It was once a sun-like star that reached the end of its life and blasted its outer layers into space.

Equipment: ZWO narrowband filters (Ha and OIII) with ZWO ASI533MM Pro monochrome camera cooled at -10C paired with 2032mm Celestron Schmidt Cassegrain telescope on a ZWO AM5N Harmonic Drive EQ mount automated by ZWO ASIAIR Plus 256GB

Location: Bortle 9 scale of Lahore - Pakistan.
Date: November 23rd, 2025

Image by: Syed Mohib Talib Mehdi

Description: A 20 Years Old Young Amatuer Astrophotographer is telling The Tale of The Triangulum Galaxy - 2.7 Million Light Years Away From Earth . One of the Closet Nearly Perfect Spiral Galaxy from our Home The Milky Way, Third Largest Member of our Local Galactic Group After Milky way and Andromeda Galaxy.

Equipment: Canon EOS 600D
Canon FD 135mm Lens f/2
Ioptron SkyTracker Mount
Data: 45x90s Exposures at ISO 400
Total Integration of 1 Hour and 2 Minutes
Calibration Frames : 30 Dark 45 Flat and 30 Bias Frames
Stacked and Processed Using Siril + PreProcessed

Location: Bortle 7 skies of Islamabad, Pakistan

Dates: 7 Good Nights of December 2025

Image by: Abdullah Aleem

Description: Abdullah has shown his genius by making a DIY Go To Mount himself and used ordinary equipment for bringing out beauty under light polluted skies. Kudos to young Man who has proved that it is the will to capture Universe that prevails rather a high tech Equipment.

Data: Integration of 30"x220 frames 20"x220 frames 40"x90 frames Total 4 hours of data. Software used :DeepSkyStacker, Siril for Processing, Lightroom for denoising and final edits.30% data collected on bad nights without Moon whereas 70% captured on good nights with about 20-30% Moon illumination

Equipment: Nikon D5600 (Stock)Nikkor 55-300mm F4.5-F5.6 ED VR lens operated at 300mm F5.6 DIY Homemade Harmonic Drive Mount 

Location: Bortle 8 Rawalpindi Date: December, 2025

Image by: Roshaan Bukhari

Description: Look at the power of modern day Astronomy Equipment, seasoned skills of Astroimager when combined with a dark sky will yield a breath-taking image like this of our neighboring Galaxy. He specially travelled to a dark sky in cold November night and planned his Gadget to capture the marvel of Night Sky for 2.5 hours.

Equipment: ZWO Seestar S30

Location: Chakri, Lahore
Date: November 23rd, 2025

Image by: Sibtain Shah

Description: The pic was taken using 16 second exposure time, f/1.7 aperture, 6.9mm focal length at an ISO of 2578. 

Technique: He took the picture by placing the phone against the airplane window. The phone was kept stable by closing the window shutter behind the phone in order to keep it stable.

Equipment: This picture was taken from an airplane using the Google Pixel 8 smartphone.

Location: This was taken flying near Turbat, Pakistan under pure bortle 1 skies while plane was cruising at 35,000ft. https://maps.app.goo.gl/sM7Sp7bGHLvnrW7B9
Date: May 27, 2025

Image by: Faisal Raja

Description: Catching the Comets is such a unique experience in Astrophotography especially two on same Date. C2025 A6 Lemmon  on the left and C2025K1 Atlas at dawn.

Equipment: Seestar S50 , 20 and  30s exposures 2 to 3 min Softwares Light room , Deep Sky stacker and Snap speed . 

Location: Rawalpindi

Date: November 9th, 2025

Image by: Abdul Rehman Khan

Description: The Fireworks Nebula (NGC_6946), is between constellations Cepheus and Cygnus.This RGB image is derived from one hour of CCD data captured through clear, infrared, green, and blue filters, calibrated with dark frames, bias frames, and filter-matched flats.

Equipment: Celestron 8-inch SCT  Telescope with a CCD camera, controlled via NINA and SBIG CCDOps. Data was stacked and processed in Siril to produce the final RGB composite.

Location: IST, Islamabad
Date: September, 2025

Image by: Ismaeel Khan

Description: LBVI composite image of the Bode's galaxy. 1 hour of luminance data (10s sub-exposures) taken for MEADE LX200 ACF 16 inch (unguided), and 20 minutes each (60s sub-exposures) for blue, green, and infrared filters taken from Celestron EdgeHD 8 inch mounted on Celestron CGX mount (unguided).

Cameras used: Luminance taken with SBIG Aluma AC4040, BVI taken with SBIG ST-402ME.

Softwares used: SIRIL used for stacking and background extraction, GIMP2.0 used to create LBVI composite.

Location: IST, Islamabad
Date: December 24th, 2025

Image by: Hamza

Description: Our friend from Khyber Agency has shown extraordinary effort by using binoculars to image every full moon of 2025.

Equipment: 1st 8 captured through ( 60% not working) Binoculars and rest are captured through Canon 1300d @300mm.

Location: Jamrud, Khyber Agency
Date: Year 2025

Image by: Abbass Haider

Description: He is a 16 year old mobile phone photographer who made this composite of three different images. The airplane was shot in July 2025, Moon Shot was captured on LAST's most recent event on 29 November and Clouds image is from 30th November. This image is not part of Competition but has been placed to encourage the young Photographer.

Equipment: Google pixel 6 pro
Location: Lahore
Date: November 29th, 2025

Image by: Saeed Abbassi

Description: Full moon rising, running clouds and rising stars All are trailed to compose a painting like image.

Equipment:  Mi 11 Ultra Mobile Phone
Location: Kandiaro, Sindh
Date: December 6th, 2025

Image by: Muhammad Shaheer

Description: This is ultra wide shot of winter arm of milky way during the peak night of Geminid Showers.

He caught this shot with great patience and planning. This photo is a stack of 180 frames, where one frames was shot at 15s, F3.5, ISO 3200. To counteract the lens optical errors he also shot 20 darks, 10 flats and 10 bias frames .All done on a static tripod and manual tracking.

A lonely night spent under the stars where winter sears through the skin ! "

Equipment: Canon 250D and Canon 18-55mm kit lens
 Location: Nawabshah, Sindh
Date: December 14th, 2025

Image by: Asharib Nomani

Description: Tuned the walkie-talkie to the NOAA APT frequency. Recorded passes from the rooftop at 2 AM to 4 AM over multiple nights. Audio was captured using only my phone's recorder, which caused high noise. Saved each attempt with random file names. My 8th recording, named "Last Try", finally decoded successfully. Cleaned and trimmed the audio using Audacity. Processed and decoded the APT audio into an image using WXtoIMG.

Personal Notes: I spent several nights waiting for passes; missing one meant waiting hours for the next. Despite many failed attempts due to noisy audio, phone issues, and signal drops, the 8th attempt finally worked...Alhamdulillah.
My father would often check on me at night and jokingly say:
"Dhayaan se... kahin satellite ki jagah aliens na Ajaen 😂"

Equipment: Baofeng UV-82 walkie-talkie (to receive the APT signal). Android phone with a simple voice-recording app. Laptop (for processing and decoding). Homemade V-Dipole antenna made with metal rods at 120° (first attempt, unsuccessful)

Final working setup: Baofeng UV-82 + phone recorder
Location: Lahore
Date: April 20~23rd, 2025

Image by: Abdullah Irfan

Description: It took 50 tries with hand held mobile phone to capture this sharp image of Moon through his telescope eyepiece.

Equipment: Celestron Nexstar 127 SLT & Mobile Phone
Location: Lahore
Date: December 8th, 2025