Astrobin Image of the day Cracking the Dragon's Egg (NGC 6164)

Channel
Astronomy is cool
@astronomyiscool
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
22subscribers
+5 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1002580422191 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @astronomyiscool |
| Created | Between 1 March 2025 and 31 July 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 11 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 27 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 27 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/astronomyiscool |
Topic
Science — 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 1 October 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% 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 the other topics.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026, 19:51 | 22 | +2 |
| 3 Oct 2026, 08:17 | 20 | +1 |
| 17 Sept 2026, 22:20 | 19 | +1 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 20:59 | 18 | +1 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 20:46 | 17 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 17:29 | 17 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 21 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 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 11 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
Astrobin Image of the day Solar Flare animation from Australia, June 26, 2026
Astrobin Image of the day Sh1-89 - Moth Nebula in Cygnus
Astrobin Image of the day Meteor Shower and Interstellar Tunel
Astrobin Image of the day Sh2-112, Sh2-115, Sh2-116 & Weinberger 1-10 (We1-10, PK 086+05.1, PN G086.1+5.4) in SHO with RGB stars
Astrobin Image of the day The Ghostly Cheerio Nebula (NGC 6337)
Astrobin Image of the day Butterfly nebula - IC 1318 - SHO-rgb stars
Astrobin Image of the day Fireworks in the Milky Way!
Astrobin Image of the day Milky Way over La Palma
Astrobin Image of the day Falls Object 3
Astrobin Image of the day Alnilam and the Delectable Surrounding Nebulae
Astrobin Image of the day First look on SNR G159.6+7.3 : the “Turtle” Supernova Remnant & FACT 1
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @astronomyiscool. 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.
Cite this entry
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 19 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Astronomy is cool” (@astronomyiscool), 22 subscribers as measured 19 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/astronomyiscool.
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.