Free Space Images
The pictures
Free for personal use only, never commercial use. Please credit Damon Scotting · The Telescope Man
Taken with my own telescopes. No stock photos, no space-agency pictures and no AI-generated images.
Each size is cut from my full file. Where my file is smaller than a size, you get my file's real pixels and I tell you so.
Plain sRGB JPEGs, rebuilt from the pixels: no location, no dates and no camera data travel with them.
Setting one as your wallpaper
Save the picture to Photos, open it, tap Share, then Use as Wallpaper.
Open the picture in your gallery app, open its menu, then choose Set as wallpaper.
Right-click the downloaded file and choose Set as desktop background.
Open System Settings, then Wallpaper, and add the picture or its folder.
3D views coming soon
Using them
Free for personal use only: wallpapers, prints for your own wall, and sharing with the credit below.
Not for commercial use. Without my written permission you may not use these images, or anything made from them, in any of these ways:
- selling them, or selling prints, canvases, posters, phone cases, clothing or any other product that shows them
- in advertising, marketing or packaging, or on a shop, product or business website
- in a book, magazine, course or paid talk, or in a video or channel that earns money, including monetised YouTube
- as stock images, in an image library, or to train or feed an AI model
- with the credit removed, or edited and passed off as someone else's
The images stay mine (copyright Damon Scotting). Downloading one gives you a free personal licence, nothing more.
The credit, ready to paste: Photo: Damon Scotting · The Telescope Man
Want one for any of those? Commercial licences are possible, so email me at hello@thetelescopeman.com and ask.
Patreon
Get the next picture first.
New images land on my Patreon before anywhere else, with the story of the night behind them. Joining free costs nothing.
Join free on Patreon Patreon handles the sign-up. I never see your card details.The Night Gallery
Want it printed and framed?
My favourites are going into the Night Gallery as fine-art prints, framed prints and canvas, and you will see each one on your wall at its real size first. It opens soon.