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r/telescopes

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.

Community Stats

Subscribers
206k
Content rating
SFW
Created
2008-10-18
Posts per day
20/day
Comments per day
330/day
Discussion style
Balanced
Content mix
Image-heavy (77% image, 23% video)
Top post
9,100 upvotes
Top 100 median
1,100 upvotes
Competition
Low competition
Peak hour
2:00 PM UTC

r/telescopes is a SFW subreddit with 206 thousand subscribers, created in 2008. It's image-heavy, with about 100% of top posts being images or video. Posts average about 20 per day with 329 comments per day, making it a balanced community. Top posts this year scored up to 9.1K upvotes, with a typical top-100 post earning 1.1K. It's a low-competition community — the 100th-ranked top post of the past year is from 289 days ago. Browse 12 closely related communities below to find similar subreddits.

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