Submit to Highlights of the Night

Shot the sky last night? Selected community photos join the Highlights of the Night strip on the homepage — full-screen viewable, credited exactly the way you choose below. One photo per submission; send as many nights as you like.

Your submission is protected

Your photo and details travel encrypted (HTTPS) and are stored privately — nothing becomes public until we review it, and then only with the credit you picked.
Your contact name and email are never published. They exist only so we can reach you about this photo.
You keep your copyright. Submitting grants us a no-cost license to show the photo in the Stargazr “Highlights of the Night” spotlight — nothing more.
We will never use your photo anywhere else without your explicit written approval. If we’d like paid rights for use across other publications, we’ll only ask if you’ve ticked the contact-permission box below.
Change your mind later? Email hello@stargazr.io and we’ll take the photo down.

The photo Your photo

JPEG, PNG or WebP · up to 25 MB · at least 1600px on the long edge (we publish in high resolution) · no watermarks, logos or text overlays · only photos you took yourself.

Location shot

Time of day (estimate)

Approx. local time (optional)

Your credit — what visitors see Photographer name Publish my name with the credit. If unchecked, the credit reads “Stargazr community member”. Instagram (optional) X / Twitter (optional) Facebook (optional) Other (optional) Show these handles with my spotlight credit so people can find more of my work.

Contact — never published

Contact name

Used only to reach you about this submission — or about paid rights if you opt in below. Never shown on the site, never shared.

Permissions Required: I am the photographer or rights holder of this photo. I understand my submission is protected, and I grant Stargazr (Oak and Main Developers LLC) a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to display this photo — with the credit choices I made above — in the Stargazr “Highlights of the Night” spotlight at no cost to Stargazr. I keep my copyright. Optional: If Stargazr is interested in buying rights to use this photo across other publications, you have my explicit permission to contact me at the email above to discuss paid rights of use. (Without this box ticked, you won’t be asked — and the photo is never used beyond the spotlight.)

What happens next

We review every submission by hand — sky quality, composition, and that it’s genuinely yours.
Selected shots appear in the strip with your chosen credit (and handles, if you opted in), and open in the full-screen parallax viewer.
We email you only if your shot is selected, if we have a question — or about paid rights, and only if you ticked that box.